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Again, welcome! Binksternet (talk) 23:00, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
Golden State Theatre, Monterey
editI saw your addition to the movie palace list and I wonder if you think Golden State Theatre can become an article, that is, whether it meets notability requirements. If it meets WP:GNG then you're set to create the article. I have created only one theatre article: Alameda Theatre (Alameda, California). As you can see from that tiny article it does not take much to get such a page going. A more involved article example can be seen at Paramount Theatre (Oakland, California). That place has had attention from the federal HABS and NRHP efforts, and lots of media coverage. If you can find some focused coverage about the Golden State Theatre then you can get started. Binksternet (talk) 23:11, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
- The Golden State Theatre definitely meets the notability requirements. I don't have much time to create an article in the near future, but could probably create a stub this weekend. How long does a stub persist (before being deleted) if I (or someone else) doesn't flesh it our with details and references? Or does it get deleted at all? By the way, how is it that your Alameda Theatre (Alameda, California) is considered an article and not a stub? It is only 5 sentences long! --FBachofner (talk) 04:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
- If you created a stub based on, say, Cinema Treasures and a second reference, your stub will not be deleted. Yes, my article is surely a stub. Binksternet (talk) 05:02, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
- Shouldn't it (i.e. Alameda Theatre (Alameda, California) ) then be marked as such? How would one go about reverting an "article" to a stub?
- Also, does in internal link (i.e. on Wikipedia) count as a valid "reference"? There's quite a bit here on the Reid Bros. As a founding member of the (defunct as of 2005) State Theatre Preservation Group I have a lot of historical reference materials, but they are in deep storage and will take some time to retrieve. --FBachofner (talk) 05:35, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
- An internal link does not count as a reference. If you want to draw something from the Reid Bros article then you should look at the source which is cited in that article, and bring that external citation to your new article.
- My tiny Alameda article is indeed marked as a stub, at the very bottom, and also on the talk page. Binksternet (talk) 05:50, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
- Well, rather than wait for the weekend, I stayed up late and created Golden State Theatre ... as a full article. I'll flesh it out further with more text and photos over the next month after I pull information from storage. I think it is a fairly decent first effort, but please feel free to comment on possible improvements. I'll let some STPG members know too, and they will likely add information as well.
- Sorry I didn't notice your Alameda Theatre article was listed as a stub. It was long enough that I had to scroll to see the designation. I don't think I've ever seen that with a Wikipedia stub. --FBachofner (talk) 09:06, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
- Great work! Well done. Binksternet (talk) 13:53, 17 October 2013 (UTC)