Talk:Felton Presbyterian Church

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Confusion of churches

The historic church is at 6299 Gushie; it is the one in the (current) photo, the one on the NRHP list, and is currently a library. Library's history page
The current, active church is at 6090 Highway 9, three-tenths of a mile away. It is the one covered in the text of this article. Active church's map

Some splitting is needed here, although I have no idea on titles for the new/old articles. Thundersnow (talk) 09:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for noting the confusion and linking to sources. Another source about the historic, NRHP-listed church should be available in its NRHP nomination, which I'll try to link to here:

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^ Edith E. Fikes (August 17, 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Felton Presbyterian Church / Faye G. Belardi Memorial Library" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying two photos from 1976

Thanks for calling attention to this. About a way forward, I guess I agree the two should be covered in different articles if they each are wikipedia-notable, rather than having one combined article. There are other churches where there's a current congregation in a new building and a historic NRHP-listed building that are covered in one article, but here you have different locations and no continuing association between them, as far as I know. The NRHP-listed building, now a library, is clearly wikipedia-notable, as is practically any NRHP-listed place (due to documentation available, and their having passed several levels of review in the listing process). But is the current church a wikipedia-notable topic? I am not sure. --do ncr am 14:21, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would put the building in an article about the library, renaming this article if the congregation lacks notability; an article of this name should probably be about the congregation. The congregation may be notable, however: its history indicates it was the first occupant of the building. This notability may only be satisfied by local history books and newspapers. Magic♪piano 14:54, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This could be handled in many ways (see above), but I don't think that there is a major problem leaving the 2 entities in the same article, as long as a distinction is made in the article between the two. What we really need is more info about the historic building (in whatever article you think it fits best in). Smallbones_(smalltalk) 17:38, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the current page, I would go with Felton Public Library for the historic building, and leave this article to the current congregation/building. It would be a lot less confusing, especially if each article hatnoted the other. Thundersnow (talk) 17:57, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Per Thundersnow's preference, and I think not against anyone else's wishes, i have now split out a separate Felton Public Library article to hold info about the NRHP-listed building; each article links to the other. Further discussion of development of the library/historic building article should take place at Talk:Felton Public Library. --do ncr am 09:09, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[nrhpdoc-1] Edith E. Fikes (August 17, 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Felton Presbyterian Church / Faye G. Belardi Memorial Library" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying two photos from 1976

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