Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adirondack Architecture

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. WjBscribe 23:14, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adirondack Architecture (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

No context, no references. Seems too vague to be merged anywhere. Propaniac 15:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep and cleanup. This is a distinct style of architecture. Someone more in the know than me can do something with this. Daniel Case 16:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep, though this is a sibling subset with National Park Service Rustic of frontier/rustic architecture in general. --Dhartung | Talk 18:54, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WjBscribe 23:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to National Park Service Rustic per Dhartung. —Resurgent insurgent 2007-04-24 23:58Z
• Keep as this is apparently a separate style, though along the same lines. See Adirondack chair for a specific item of furniture from this particular style. DGG 02:33, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and cleanup. Completely rewrite if possible. CitiCat 04:25, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, but it's such a mess. If this survives we must grammar-proof this one. --Valley2city^₪‽ 07:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but needs cleanup and a pretty good amount of work. I wouldn't recommend a merge to National Park Service Rustic, because it's a sibling and sort of a predecessor style to NPS Rustic. I'd be willing to bet that with some searching, we could find some important historic structures that are associated with this style. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 14:57, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Here's a reference: National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Great Camps of the Adirondacks Thematic Resources. Pages 4 and 5 explain the architectural style some more. Also, articles such as Great Camps, Sagamore Camp, and Santanoni Preserve are places associated with this architectural style. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 15:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Is real topic; search for "Adirondack Architecture" in Google, even in quotes (and even with "site:.edu" in the search). As a note: Perhaps people should spend their time improving articles or marking them for needing improvement, rather than having others spend their time to come here and debating the need to keep and article when if you do a Google search on the topic it is clearly a real topic. --Remi 15:38, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I thought that I had done such a search, but apparently I neglected to. In my defense, I've never heard of Adirondack Architecture myself, only the state park, and I honestly had no idea what the article was trying to talk about, especially since it includes information on the park. Propaniac 17:26, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: I just did a substantial amount of rewriting and expansion of the article. It still could use some incoming links, but when checking the NRHP submission, I found that the architectural style has links to other styles like Arts and Crafts and Stick Style, as well as connections to architects and designers like Andrew Jackson Downing, Calvert Vaux and Charles Eastlake. I'm not sure how many AfD participants are architecture fans or historic preservation fans, though. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 04:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - add references.SlideAndSlip 14:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.