Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polite architecture

Polite architecture

Non-notable subject that seems to mostly made up of unsourced
original research. ChildofMidnight (talk) 01:23, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There are numerous publications which refer to polite architecture. The article is not largely constituted by unsourced material/ Pease see the Brunskill extract. If you give me more time I wil source statments to spport the paragraph whch details the historical developlment of polite architecture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by His1ojd (talk • contribs) 01:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion will last several days. And if you need more time than that you can always work on the article in your userspace. ChildofMidnight (talk) 02:56, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just what was the reasoning behind "non-notable"? Are you an admin, unable to stretch a hand and check the encyclopedia? No? Then pick it up, there's more here. Verdict: keep if someone competent in British architecture adopts and improves it; merge to vernacular architecture otherwise. NVO (talk) 03:31, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 05:44, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is it too late to include British architecture in this nomination (are oxymorons allowed)? No, only kidding. Maybe I'm off on this one. It could turn out to be a very impolite AfD. Are gargoyles considered polite or impolite? What about a leaky roof? "Between the extremes of the wholly vernacular and the completely polite, examples occur which have some vernacular and some polite content" Completely polite? LMAO. Is this for real or are you guys spoofing me? ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:57, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's also this gem: "Historically, the growth of polite architecture tends to coincide with growths in wealth, the movement of people, the profession of architecture, the invention and use of man-made building materials, and the availability of transport networks capable of delivering materials produced outside of a building's immediate locality." So before there were professional architects everything was impolite? ChildofMidnight (talk) 06:01, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No before the advent of these elements buildings were likely to be vernacular (please refer to vernacular architecture pasge), because the necessary social and economic structures were not in place to enable the realisation of particular architectural styles. Hence there are relatively few buildings today which could be regarded as 'polite' in larges areas of rural sub-Saharan Africa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.85.171.15 (talk) 08:07, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep No reason not to have a page on this subject - it exists. However, the page does need a lot of work to meet Wikipedia standards, and is a little confusing. Polite architecture is a mostly 19th century product. The buildings are unique in design, often public or municipal buildings. The reason they are unique is because their architectural concepts and traditions are national or global, but they are built of local stone and materials - an exagerated and fictitious example would be a church in the style of St Paul's Cathedral, with no resemblence to the local provincial architecture, built in Norwich from local flintstone rather than the more sophisticated pale dressed stone that one would expect. Giano (talk) 07:58, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]