Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2010 December 28

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People where not notified before deletion. Thus I have restored this until a more full discussion has taken place. The nominator work on / for a competing website.
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The NRHP nomination document lists additional sources in footnotes and bibliography which might be consulted. Do you have access / have you run lit. searches covering historical Virginia newspapers? --doncram (talk) 14:36, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Doncram conflates topics... the building he points us to certainly sounds notable... but that does not mean the chapter (the subject of the article) is notable. Notability is not inherited. The notability of a building does not impart notability upon those that may (or may not) have met in the building (I say "may not" because at the moment we don't even have an indication that the chapter in question ever met in this building). Blueboar (talk) 15:38, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I did not conflate anything! I pointed to a related article, which the AFD'd topic article should probably link to, if the Lodge met there. In many other state capital or other cities, multiple Masonic lodges have shared use of a big building like this one, so it's an educated guess (not yet confirmed) that this lodge met there. I pointed out it has sources which have not been consulted. I suggest now that the AFD nominator has not done research he coulda done. Better to tag the article about forming inline citations and to leave for development. --doncram (talk) 18:15, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL yields some hits. What about History and by Laws of Richmond Royal Arch Chapter, by Moore (complete text available on-line i think)?
Here is another source stating that the Richmond Royal Arch Chapter met on occasion at a different building, which i think is the Mason's Hall (Richmond, Virginia), also NRHP-listed. Its article has another NRHP nom with its own bibliography of additional sources that could include some relevant for this article (pls. note the online version of the NRHP nom for Mason's Hall is missing a page or two as what shows for bibliography section is an incomplete continuation page. A full copy can be obtained by request to National Register, at no charge). --doncram (talk) 18:28, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The AFD nominator is Confused about what Conflation is, and Fails to Follow that the historic buildings articles and their sources should be Consulted First, before Considering any Historic topic to be Hopeless for wikipedia Coverage. :) Happy Christmas! --doncram (talk) 18:32, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Forget about the sources that primarily regard the historic buildings. What about:
I don't care much for articles about chapters of organizations, but these seem to be reliable sources establishing the existence and some of the history of this organization. --Doncram (talk) 15:34, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: per nom. The sources Doncram is providing are, of course, not independent, as
    WP:RS requires; indeed, the Moore and Snydor cites are written by members of the chapter. Blueboar's use of the word "conflate" to describe Doncram's actions is not in the least degree confused - any sources or arguments based around the notability of the building in which an organization meets cannot, of course, pertain to the notability of the organization. That this chapter exists no one disputes; that it is notable is another matter.  Ravenswing  15:09, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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