Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Automobile Customs and Practices

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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 Move to automobile folklore.—♦♦ SʘʘTHING(Я) 10:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Automobile Customs and Practices

Original research. Does not belong in encyclopedia. e.g. - "Car Coinage -- There is a practice in New Jersey of throwing coins into a newly purchased car as a sign of good luck." Hummm. Mattisse(talk) 00:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete. Unverified, original research, full of weasel words. Agent 86 00:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Some of this (like writing on car windows for graduation) makes sense and I've done myself, but I don't know where you'd find sources for the rest, so it must go.--Kchase T 00:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Keep it's now getting some good sources.--Kchase T 17:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete — per OR. SynergeticMaggot 00:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete- Carcruft 205.157.110.11 02:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete or move to userspace No references and currently US-centric. References will probably be easily found (I'm busy right now, so I can't go looking), so move to userspace to allow the author to work in references and expand so as to not be US-centric. Will change my vote once there is references in place. LinaMishima 02:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Rename and keep it's got sources now, which means it should be kept. But the current name is overly convuluted, and should be renamed to the more appropriate automobile folklore LinaMishima 18:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete or move to userspace per above. It seems like original research.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.212.172 (talk • contribs)
  • Delete, appears to be original research and lacks verifiability. --Bakanov (talk • contribs) 11:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete All this superstition about avoiding accidents. How about just watching the road? --Xrblsnggt 11:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - WP:OR and no sources Martinp23 12:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, or at absolute worst userfy per LinaMishima. Move to something like automobile folklore, and encourage people from other backgrounds and countries to contribute theirs. This is a worthy subject, the current content is not entirely useless, and the article could be improved. Smerdis of Tlön 15:13, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. -AMK152 15:19, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
    • comment I agree with respect to the name change - good idea
  • Strong Keep A great article. In any place that humans gather there will be customs and traditions. It is important that the narrowminded wikipedia administrators understand this. -- Bpazolli 15:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep (conditional) There's a germ/idea of an actually very good article on this idea. Keep, strip, stubbify down to RS, and let it rebuild from good sources. rootology (T) 23:28, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Request for above and add the condition "rename to automobile folklore"? since this would be a more appropriate name in my opinion. LinaMishima 00:47, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per Rootology's conditions. This could be a great article. Many cultures have an equivalent of a St. Chris' medal, for one thing Drett 01:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep this could be a good article, I'd say. Probably could use a retitle (the "practices" part is too broad) but not at all an unreasonable article topic. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep only if renamed. Capitalization in the title is inconsistent with WP:MoS (should be all lowercase). Themindset 22:10, 17 August 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.