Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Car Spotting

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 'Keep per sourcing in article, showing notability of this phenomenon. If any sources given via links here are not in the article already, please add them. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Car Spotting

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No evidence of notability. I searched 10 pages of Google results for "Car spotting" but could not find a reliable, independent source. Article has no sources currently. swaq 17:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. —swaq 17:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• Comment I also just noticed that this article is orphaned. swaq 17:36, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• I guess I'm a car spotter.. come to think of it, a couple of my cars have even been spotted. But, I've never heard of this term and I see no evidence that this activity has gotten coverage in useful sources. So, as always, delete unless properly sourced. Friday (talk) 17:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete, SVP. PrinceGloria (talk) 18:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete - no refs and non-notable. I assume Car Spotters are analogous to Train spotters - but the likelyhood of all that stuff about inciting people to street race seems very dubious. Dump it. SteveBaker (talk) 19:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep In a matter of moments I was able to establish that there at least two books on the subject, both called The ABC of Motor Car Spotting; one written by Graeme L. Greenwood in 1949, the other by John Dudley in 1952. Citations of these books in other works indicate that they are about the hobby of spotting distinctive models of cars, as the article describes. Since we certainly have train spotters, plane spotters, tram/bus spotters, it is no surprise that we have car spotters too. Colonel Warden (talk) 19:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

• Another more modern source. Colonel Warden (talk) 19:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• I don't think there'll be any disagreement that people who like cars like to identify interesting ones. But, are any of the details sourceable? Maybe this could be mentioned in some larger, already existing article? Car culture or something? Just throwing out ideas. Friday (talk) 19:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

• Keep I started adding references already. Laudak (talk) 01:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete At best this is a NEO, at worst it's OR. Blaxthos ( t / c ) 03:14, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete This is a neologism. The sources adduced above fail to convince. Eusebeus (talk) 08:38, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

• It is obviously not a neologism. For thing, there is no new word and for another I have found sources from over 50 years ago. Colonel Warden (talk) 08:50, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

• The article is getting better. Maybe it can be properly sourced. I'm willing to change my mind on delete, and give it a chance to grow. Friday (talk) 16:21, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete this could be covered general "spotting article" to cover all kinds of spotters... --— Typ932^{T | C}  18:45, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. I can't understand why this debate is continuing when it has already been ascertained that whole books have been written about this subject. If that doesn't satisfy our notability criteria then I don't know what does. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:53, 11 April 2008 (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.