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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:36, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sky City 1000

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Sky City 1000 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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infrastructure article proposed in 1989 and without a completion and creation date. I echo what was said in the first nomination: Wikipedia is not a crystal ball; and articles are created when they are under construction. Iban14mxl (talk) 02:21, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep Notability does not expire. Featured on Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering (2003). 10 years earlier, an article in NewScientist (1993). Proposed ideas can be notable. There are proposed ideas to live on Mars such as Caves of Mars Project (2004), Mars Direct (1996). None of these ideas have happened, and probably never will, but we still have articles for them because they were notable ideas. -- GreenC 02:34, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am not an architect, but at first glance it is clear that the design is outdated and does not meet the construction requirements, or it could be that this project was replaced by another work. Unlike the hotel and skyscraper started in 1989 in Pyongyang, this work was not even started. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. Iban14mxl (talk) 02:44, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Did you see Caves of Mars Project (2004), Mars Direct (1996)? Both of these projects never happened, never will happen, and are not feasible. Yet, they are both notable. Notability is determined by coverage in reliable sources. -- GreenC 04:13, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's curious that the media doesn't talk about this project, but Wikipedia does. You're using a series that came out more than 23 years ago and hasn't been updated with reliable and verifiable sources. Iban14mxl (talk) 15:04, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It sounds like you are unfamiliar with the concept notability doesn't expire. A notable topic 23 years ago, is still notable today. It doesn't require a constant stream of sources forever to remain suitable to remain on Wikipedia. -- GreenC 15:18, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE Wikipedia is not a repository of unverified information. Iban14mxl (talk) 15:27, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Indiscriminate is usually applied to things like "List of murders", since there are so many of them, we don't try to list them all, such a list would be indiscriminate. But this project is not indiscriminate because 1) there are very few projects like it in scope, almost by definition this project is highly discriminated from other building projects and 2) it has significant coverage in multiple reliable sources making it notable. -- GreenC 15:44, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Cortador The most I found was this article it is stated that the project would have been the tallest building in the world and one of the most innovative, officially remaining as a discontinued project. I must assume that Wikipedia is not a crystal ball and if it is officially stated that this project was cancelled, why do they persist in maintaining this article? Iban14mxl (talk) 15:13, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You have not made a case why the existing sources are insufficient. You have also already been informed why the project being unfinished doesn't matter, so I won't bother explaining it a third time. Cortador (talk) 15:22, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE Wikipedia is not a repository of unverified information. Iban14mxl (talk) 15:25, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It sounds like you are having trouble searching for sources. I started with Google, and found this page. At the bottom, in a section called "References", are three sources. Including the one you found at Mens Health, that is now 4 sources. This topic is discussed in 86 books and magazines at archive.org. Some examples:
Would you like more sources? -- GreenC 15:36, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: I've added Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (2012), which cites Sky City 1000 as a “visionary project for vertical cities.” Alongside Structural Engineering International (1992), New Scientist (1993), and Discovery Channel’s Extreme Engineering (2003), the project has received broad, independent coverage in reliable sources over two decades. Notability does not require the project to have been built. This clearly meets WP:GNG. HerBauhaus (talk) 14:22, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep As others have noted, notability does not expire. DCsansei (talk) 13:52, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I think some of the issues that people might have had with this article would be alleviated if we change the article into past (potential) tense. Are there any people still proposing this building be built? Or is it just an artifact of Bubble Japan that received a notable amount of attention? Moritoriko (talk) 02:45, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:37, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Aeropolis 2001

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A building project was conceived in 1989, but there has been no news of it since 1995. Too much time has passed, and I doubt they'll build it in the coming decades. Iban14mxl (talk) 23:39, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

commnet Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. Cristal no facts, events, or future works are predicted here. And I also have to add that this article does not maintain reliable or verifiable sources, nor are they updated, no one is talking about this project today. Iban14mxl (talk) 15:07, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Notability doesn't expire. Nobody reporting on this project isn't relevant.
If you think this article should be deleted due to a lack of sources, do a BEFORE instead of making blanket claims about sourcing. Cortador (talk) 15:13, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There must be some record that this is a reality, otherwise we would be falling into speculation, this is simply not relevant. Iban14mxl (talk) 15:18, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: I've added a U.S. Department of Energy-indexed source (OSTI ID: 5532033) that discusses Aeropolis 2001 alongside other major Japanese skyscraper proposals from the era. It, along with The Ottawa Citizen and Herald Sun, provides independent coverage of the project’s scale and ambition. Notability under WP:GNG is based on significant coverage, not completion. HerBauhaus (talk) 10:33, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep‎. Robust consensus that as an NRHP contributing property it is a notable subject. Any necessary cleanup and improvements can be handled editorially. (non-admin closure) Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:43, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Carter-Newton House

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Article seems to function as an extended family history related to the Carter-Newton House, rather than an encyclopedic entry about a notable subject. It suffers from a near-complete lack of reliable, independent sources, making the vast majority of its content unverifiable (WP:V) and potentially original research (WP:OR) by a user whose name implies a relation to the owners. Article fails to establish the notability (WP:N) of the house, appearing more like a genealogical record (WP:NOTGENEALOGY). — Arcaist (contr—talk) 13:05, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep‎. With thanks to the editors who managed to sort out the mess. asilvering (talk) 02:21, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stefanos Sinos

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Deprodded without improvement. Current sourcing does not show notability, and searches did not turn up enough in-depth coverage to show they pass WP:GNG, and with a high citation count of a whopping 11, and not seeming to meet any of the other criteria, does not meet WP:NSCHOLAR. Onel5969 TT me 22:25, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep I would think that Sinos could qualify for NProf via criteron 1, has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, with the books that I am seeing published. I don't know how citation counters work but from what I know I think they tend to focus on papers instead of books? (please correct my misunderstandings). And following from Cl3phact0's research above. Moritoriko (talk) 04:00, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Citation numbers apply to books also. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:54, 23 April 2025 (UTC).[reply]
I agree that the case for NPROF appears fairly strong. Also, in addition to the Mystras book (and the several decades of work it documents), his book on pre-modern architecture looks as if may be a standard university textbook on the subject (according to the publisher, it was reprinted as recently as 2023). I haven't yet looked for more about the older publications, as I'd rather prefer to spend my time on other articles until the outcome of this AfD has been decided. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 06:41, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Keep. The list of publications appears to indicate notability in the fields of archaeology and architecture. Is there any reason why they shouldn't? P Aculeius (talk) 15:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Not that I can see. However, I will say, in deference to the original nom, that it was (is) exceedingly difficult to make sense of or even decode the relevant references and citations, most of which were literally in Greek at the outset of this process. Sinos's notability was very much obscured by this fact (as well as the messy data at Wikidata – now somewhat rectified). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:58, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was no consensus‎. Eddie891 Talk Work 12:47, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Foresters House

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Article about an office building, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria for office buildings. As always, buildings are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on reliable source coverage and analysis of their architectural, historical, social or cultural significance -- but this doesn't make any meaningful notability claim over and above existing, and is referenced almost entirely to primary sources that aren't support for notability. The only reliable source present here at all is an insurance industry trade magazine, which is here solely to tangentially verify the name of the company's CEO rather than supporting any information about the building in its own right.
Since it's the headquarters of a company that does have an article under WP:CORP terms, any information we need about its head office can easily be contained in the company's article -- but in order to qualify for its own standalone article as a separate topic from the company, it would need a much stronger notability claim, and much better sourcing for it, than this. Bearcat (talk) 19:57, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Architecture and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 19:57, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: Does not appear to have sufficient notability to pass WP:NBUILD. m a MANÍ1990(talk | contribs) 23:27, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: Does not appear notable, could not find any meaningful sources. silviaASH (inquire within) 06:32, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Articles about designated heritage buildings is something that we should be expanding on Wikipedia. This is a prominent and very well-known building - you even see mention of it in fiction, such as [ short stories] by Austin Clarke. There has been coverage over the last half-century, such as this significant trade article when it was sold in 2022. There was national media coverage when it was constructed, such as in the Globe and Mail (ProQuest 1270450320). Even if the article isn't deemed worthy of inclusion, it's most certainly should be merged and/or redirected to Foresters Financial. Nfitz (talk) 23:38, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete  : Not a listed heritage building, so no listing there to help. I don't see news articles about this place, appears to be just another high rise in Toronto. No real sourcing. Oaktree b (talk) 00:04, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
put the wrong address in, it's listed under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. [2], but that's not enough for sourcing. Let's see what else we can find. Oaktree b (talk) 00:07, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lengthy heritage study attached to the by-law [3]. Coverage here [4], column down on the left, suggests there is coverage of this in a book about the architect. Oaktree b (talk) 00:13, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 12:27, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Carson Community Center

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Community Center that fails WP:NBUILDING and WP:SIGCOV, and has been unsourced since 2008. This article was also PRODed back in 2008, which was withdrawn for an AFD that never happened. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 22:10, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete‎. The "keeps" are unsubstantiated by evidence in this AfD - if !voters find sources that conclusively demonstrate SIGCOV, they need to be provided here. Vanamonde93 (talk) 15:35, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stanley Shaftel

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Can't find enough in-depth coverage from independent sources to show they pass GNG. The two obits are paid spots. Onel5969 TT me 13:47, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete per David Eppstein, and own search. did not find significant coverage to establish GNG or NCREATIVE. Would be helpful if keep !voters could link some of the coverage they allude to. Eddie891 Talk Work 08:45, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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