Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salem Street Burying Ground

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 of the debate was no consensus, default action is keep. Babajobu 08:30, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Salem Street Burying Ground

Non-notable graveyard? ComputerJoe 20:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, do we need WP:CEMETERY guidelines now? Reading through the article, the only thing I could think of that would confer enough notability for a graveyard to be listed would be if several very notable people were buried there, or the graveyard was the site of some historical happening, or had some sort of general historical significance. Otherwise mention of it could simply be made in individual bios (i.e. person A is interred at graveyard B). Based on that, I think Salem Street Burying Ground falls short of those criteria, unless there are more nationally or internationally recognized historical figures interred there than are mentioned in the article.--Isotope23 21:46, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete, old by USA standards but practically new compared to the range of British and European graveyards. Not much indication of historical significance. Only indication of notable burials there are one governor and one "war heroine" who doesn't appear in Wikipedia. I agree with Isotope23's reasoning. Barno 00:16, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, the article itself isn't written all that greatly, but it does seem to have some significance aside from just the people buried there. Peyna 20:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - as per Isotope - Hahnchen 13:18, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. A "registered historic place", old for being an American cemetery (and even quite old compared to many European ones), has a grave for an old Massachusetts governor and a Revolutionary War heroine Sarah Fulton (whatever that actually means). Seems notable enough. Tupsharru 16:21, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Other than the category this was placed in, I could find no evidence this is a "registered historic place". I've added a verify tag because much of this article isn't sourced.--Isotope23 20:05, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[1] with the appropriate subpage implying it met federal historical preservation standards for block grant use. And if every subway and train station in the US qualifies as notable, I think Revolutionary War cemetaries would qualify, too. Monicasdude 20:17, 15 February 2006 (UTC)\

Link should probably be placed on page if article is kept... gives it some sourcing/verification. I still don't think it's notable, but then again I don't think every subway, train station, and school in the US qualifies as notable either.--Isotope23 21:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

The good thing is that notability is not an inclusion standard, especially for things. Peyna 22:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I managed to verify the NRHP claim and have posted the info on the article's talk page. I couldn't find a link suitable for a reference. Peyna 22:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per Tupsharru. Monicasdude 18:35, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• keep please it is a historic place and wikipedia is not paper Yuckfoo 19:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Not an average cemetery. Merchbow 23:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Merge or Keep to Medford, Massachusetts.Blnguyen 02:49, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge as per the above. Sahasrahla 04:30, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

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.