Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cradle of Aviation Museum

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The result was Keep. Mostly Rainy 03:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cradle of Aviation Museum

This article on an Avaition Museum is about a model plane museum really, and is not notable or well known.Plowright 20:22, 30 August 2006 (UTC)}}

• Keep. Nomination has no text, and a cursory google search reveals several sources indicating notability. ColourBurst 21:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep by default as the nominator has not given any reason. SliceNYC 21:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Keep. It checks out as sufficiently notable and the roster of models seems impressive. Could use some expansion, obviously. SliceNYC 01:55, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Generates plenty news hits. Comment: I notified the nominator that the opening statement is missing. ~ trialsanderrors 22:19, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

• PS Going through the news clips, a lot of them are of the following variety:

The Cradle of Aviation Museum at Mitchel Field, which was built to celebrate Long Island's important role in the development of air travel, has been plagued with money troubles since it was conceived in the 1970's. By the time the museum opened in 2002, Nassau County had poured $40 million in taxpayer money into it. And despite annual subsidies from the county, the museum's annual deficits have grown, while attendance has declined. The museum received more bad news Wednesday, when the Nassau County comptroller, Howard S. Weitzman, issued a scathing report on the museum's finances and urged a reorganization of its board and top management. "Unless there's a radical change in direction," he said, "the museum simply cannot succeed."

Not sure if that makes it more or less notable. ~ trialsanderrors 06:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• No, I was trying to wikify it when it disappeared. The historical text has now been added. TrackerTV (CW|Castform|Green Valley) 01:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The line "Among the notable exhibits are Charles Lindbergh's original trainer aircraft" is enough reason for me. Just because they're models doesn't the museum not notable. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:17, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Notable museum. Piccadilly 01:40, 3 September 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.