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Oswald is of course notable but that does not make everywhere he slept notable. I suspect that the intention of this article is to promote the boarding house. Call me a cynical grump (flattery will get you everywhere) but I am suspicious of new editors who kick off by creating such articles.TheLongTone (talk) 14:47, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The intent of this page was not to promote the home. I have no connection to the home or it's tours. If it helps, I deleted the tour related links. Although this structure is not on the Nat. List of Historical Places, it does have historical significance. As a side note, it is interesting to note that the home where his wife was living (Ruth Paine home) HAS been designated as such a place. One could argue that this location is just as critical due to it's immediate connection to not only the assassination but also the killing of Officer Tippit.
Timcdfw has stated at ANI and in an edit summary removing this article from List of museums in North Texas that the house has changed hands and is no longer open for tours. It was attempting to verify this after seeing the ANI section that led me to search for sources about it, and I added a few (more than I would have, because an AP article formerly archived at Highbeam that we were citing several things to is now irrecoverable). One of these sources enabled me to specify that the tours started in 2009, and all the articles spoke of for-fee tours, rather than its being open to the public in a broader manner; the sentence I added with those two facts was removed by Timcdfw, together with the Facebook link that I had replaced the former website for the tours with (that URL now redirects to something malicious.) I presume his reason was, again, that the house has closed to the public, although there was no edit summary. But I found absolutely nothing about its having been sold and closed; I have just looked again in case there was a real estate listing at least, but can't find even that much. The latest reference I found and used was from May 2022, admittedly on a local news site, but a lot has been written about this house in the Dallas press, so if it is indeed under new ownership and closed, I would expect some mention to be findable. Even if it has closed, what we need to do is say so in the intro and under History, add the closure year category, and provide at least one archived external link, probably to the old website if it had content before it lapsed. Don't we also usually keep closed museums in lists, just stating that they've closed? First and foremost, what evidence is there that it's closed? Yngvadottir (talk) 22:01, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
