Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sterling McCall Old Car Museum

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 delete. There are practically no reliable sources to establish the notability of this museum or on which to base an article. Google News Archives have a couple of very trivial mentions, and a search of the Nexis database for the past 30 years did not turn up anything else. Possibly could be an article on McCall himself that mentions this musuem (and his car dealership) but even that's unlikely.--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 18:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sterling McCall Old Car Museum

A museum that does not seem to have any notability. There are lots of museums out there. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

• Merge Sterling McCall currently re-directs to the museum but he appears notable. Undo the re-direct and merge the information about the museum, where coverage is a bit sparse into the article about Sterling TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 02:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
• Link for Sterling McCall above yields only a handful of hits, mostly for a car dealership with that name in addition to references to at least three men of that name. All said, there were less than 100 hits for that name and only two dealing with the Old Car Museum. The article in question shows nothing notable about the museum itself - nothing about anything that sets it apart from similar museums, nothing about the holdings (aside from the cars having been collected by McCall over a period of years), nothing about the location. In the absence of such, reluctant delete as I don't see anything separating this local tourist attraction from something like Mystery Ridge, a Michigan "tourist trap" without an article here. B.Wind (talk) 02:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Stifle (talk) 12:58, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 14:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 14:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete I see no evidence of notability.--FreeKresge (talk) 16:43, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep assuming it meets WP:V and is open to the public: I have not followed links. Yes there are lots of motor museums, but that is no reaon why this one should not have an article. If other tourist attractions lack articles, the answer is to provide them. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

That's all and good, but there's no independent coverage (only 2 Google hits for the name of the museum), and there's not only WP:V but there are no WP:RS that can be used unless one can produce a book or two discussing this, and this is most highly unlikely. The example I mentioned above, Mystery Ridge, actually has more Google hits, but no reliable sources; so it cannot get a Wikipedia article even though I was there several times. B.Wind (talk) 02:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)