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The result was delete. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:16, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gathering Tree at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church[edit]

Gathering Tree at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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The text of the article barely refers to the subject as given in the title. It talks a lot about medical experiments but the only use in the text is that there was an Oak tree in Shiloh. We can't tell if that is even an official name of a place/tree. I'm not convinced the references support the tree (rather than supporting that the medical experiments) existed. RJFJR (talk) 17:48, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alabama-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:27, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. The Gathering Tree article largely duplicates information contained in the church's Wikipedia article, Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Rosenwald School. • Gene93k (talk) 00:30, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment The article as it stands is, at best, tangentially related to the subject and, while the references appear solid, the text feels like it's been lifted from another source. I'd endorse merging the salvageable content to Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Rosenwald School then replacing this with a redirect. I've added a ((merge-to)) tag to that effect to the article. - Dravecky (talk) 00:58, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Rosenwald School. Altairisfar (talk) 01:22, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Change to Delete. Altairisfar (talk) 21:16, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. I'm not sure I see anything here that could be merged into Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Rosenwald School that isn't already there, and nothing that could be merged into Tuskegee syphilis experiment that would add anything to that article. It's not even a useful redirect, and no other articles currently link to it. Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 23:32, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete- Spyder is on-point, there are already standing articles for the encyclopedic topics here. This is sort of like Boat in which George Washington Crossed the Delaware, if you follow... Carrite (talk) 17:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.