It is self-contradictory to say a notable award is given to an individual without any merit that can make them distinguished from other ordinary non-notable people. The "hotelier of the year" honor is reported by two independent magazines ([25] & [26]) which are quite outside the "industry echo chamber".
This is exactly how media covers active careers of living people, if they are not notable who cares what job they are leaving and with whom they are making partnerships. The real things to judge are 1) the coverage is significant (i.e. the sources are mainly about the subject, not just passing mentions), 2) the sources are independent of the subject (even you don't deny that), 3) they are multiple (more than one, simple math), and are reliable (aren't they?) Insight 3 (talk) 15:03, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Let’s try this again. Here is the list of the agriculture award recipients — for just this year. 62 pages long, hundreds of individuals. Approximately zero of them are notable by our standards. If any of them are notable, it’s not solely on the basis of the award.
Regarding your hotelier award sources: the first includes phrases such as “Ile really is a person with whom you can chat for hours on end”, “Ile truly is the professional missing from management teams”, “in a single word, he defines himself as a FRIEND”. Objective journalism, indeed. The second source calls itself “the magazine of the Romanian hospitality industry”, so is quite literally the mouthpiece of the industry echo chamber.
It took me about five minutes to discover another Romanian CEO, along with five reasonably independent sources about her: [27], [28], [29], [30], [31]. Does this imply Mihaela Bîtu deserves an article here? Not really: it’s the type of routine coverage the business press awards to any CEO. Same with this Ile fellow. — BiruitorulTalk05:40, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's really hard to look for everyone's notability in the list. To write a Wiki biography, we need more info than just being in a list of recipients (and this is not the case for Calin Ile). But I am sure, if a wiki page is set for any of them, the award will be mentioned as a sign of notability on it.
For 'Hotelier of the Year', sources exist outside the hospitality industry as well:
Its just a matter of finding more sources with deep online search.
The person you mentioned may or may not be notable, but if I say yes she is, you will bring another name and so on. Like "other stuff exists", "other people exist" is also not very helpful argument. Moreover, Calin Ile is not just a GM appointed here and there, as per sources, he is the president of the Romanian Hospitality Industry Federation (FIHR) and the the spokesperson for the Alliance for Tourism (APT). So, no comparison with your example. Insight 3 (talk) 14:13, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Ran a couple of references through a translator and they are mainly Calin's comments the hospitality/tourism sector and his company's strategy for getting through the pandemic. Not seeing anything that deals specifically with the subject in any depth. The two awards might get him across the line but it's hard to say.-KH-1 (talk) 01:31, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Surely, you haven't gone through all the references, the references cited in the lead section are just additional. The subject has pretty significant coverage here: [32], [33], [34]. He is also covered in the Forbes Romania.
Importantly, one should not expect a hotelier to have the kind of media coverage that actors, sports people, or politicians usually get. Insight 3 (talk) 04:34, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep:
Some excerpts from three articles cited by Insight, which sound like significant coverage directly about his life to me:
Bihon.ro: "Călin Ile is general manager at Hote Ibis and teacher at ASE. Călin Ile attended specialization courses in the field of tourism in Denmark, Holland and France, executive manager with excellent results at Hotel Continental in Bucharest at only 27 years old, where he learns and perfects his managerial activity and acquires the experience and competence to be entrusted with the opening the first Ibis Hotel in Romania, in Bucharest."
Coltisor: "In a few words, Călin Ile's CV includes several milestones: born in Bucharest 40 or so years ago, graduated in 1995 from the Faculty of Tourism within ASE Bucharest, later with specialization courses in the field of tourism in Denmark, Holland and France..."
Infotravel Romania: "An ASE graduate, Călin Ile has been part of the Ibis team since the hotel chain arrived in Romania in 2001. He contributed to the opening of the first Ibis hotel in Bucharest, and then to the development of the network to 4 hotels today. He also holds the position of vice-president of the Romanian Hotel Industry Federation since May 2011."
Comment Another excerpt from another mentioned source.
Insociety.ro interview article's non-interview intro: "Călin does not regret for a moment the choice to be a hotelier, an idea that was imprinted in his mind when he was 18 years old, after, together with a classmate, organize coming-of-age parties or even New Year's Eve parties. However, it was not his only option, since, as he himself confesses, he also flirted with the idea of becoming a banker – being an analytical person, with some inclination towards numbers and statistics, or a teacher, as a continuation of his mother's work sale, math teacher all her life. Personally, the biggest challenge was when he left his hometown, Marghita (Bihor county), and came alone to Bucharest, scared, perhaps, of everything that was going to happen to him. He was only 18 years old, but he managed. Professional, the opportunity to be the director of the Continental Hotel in Bucharest, an emblematic hotel on Calea Victoriei, at only 25 years old, was, without a doubt, the biggest challenge."
Week keep. While I agree the article is blatently promotional and reads like a puffed professional resume, the Médaille d'honneur agricole is a state award in France and recipients of state awards would generally pass the WP:GNG threshold. Keep but rewrite to tone down the overly promotional tone. The article creator should note that there is no ownership of articles. Any editor can edit at any time, including a re-write for a neutral POV and the addition of any criticism that may be published in reliable sources. BlueRiband►14:35, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment searching this person's name in Google at the news section gives 12 articles, most recent, which can be used as sources. SuperΨDro09:53, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep going through the refs used within the article, as well as sources available about them online, they pass WP:GNG - multiple in-depth articles in reliable publications that are independent of the subject. Angiewalter37 (talk) 01:53, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unless better sources are found. I went through the sources in the article and there are none that are significantly about him - they are all name-checks, and cannot even be used to support his educational info. A search online turns up at least a dozen sites with bios of him, and they all begin "Emmanuil Grinshpun is a highly regarded philanthropist and world-renowned entrepreneur ..." which leads me to believe that 1) there is only one bio and 2) it is a PR piece. Clearly a person contributing to his community, but lacking the reliable, significant sources required for Wikipedia. Lamona (talk) 22:44, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Fails WP:CORP, no significant coverage in reliable sources, just passing mentions of service changes in local press. Won a trade award in 2018, but award's notability looks weak. Draftified, then declined twice at draft, then moved to Vectare (bus operator) anyway, by a new account that certainly seems to have hit the ground running on bus company templates and articles. Storchy (talk) 05:47, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: For scrutiny of the newly added references. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 06:29, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is a company/organization therefore WP:NCORP guidelines apply. There are particular criteria for establishing the notability of a company. As per WP:SIRS *each* reference must meet the criteria for establishing notability, generally a minimum of two sources of deep or significant coverage. WP:CORPDEPTH - in-depth information *on the company* WP:ORGIND - "Independent Content" which in order to count towards establishing notability, must include original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. Leaving aside the primary sources, we're left with 8 others as follows:
This from Route One is a brief mention (2 sentences) of the company because the founder (who was 19 at the time in 2016) describes his business objectives. Fails ORGIND and CORPDEPTH
This next from Route One is largely an interview with some Vectare execs who describe the software that they're developing to make school bus coordination easier. All of the information is provided by the execs (fails ORGIND) and hardly anything about the topic company (fails CORPDEPTH)
The UK Bus Awards in 2018 held a New Horizons Award and awarded the Gold Medal to the topic company for the software they've developed. The award is non-notable for the purposes of establishing notability. Fails CORPDEPTH
This from Essex Highways and Essex County Council shows a map of two bus routes and says that the topic company is now operating these routes on behalf of Essex County Council. No in-depth info, fails CORPDEPTH. Arguably this is also an announcement by an affiliated partner, fails ORGIND
This from Coach & Bus Week is a short summary of the above announcement from Essex Highways with a quote from a councillor. Fails CORPDEPTH and ORGIND.
This from ArrivaBus is a service the topic company replaced, doesn't mention the topic company, not really relevant for notability purposes. Fails CORPDEPTH
This in Leicestershire Live is a good piece on the new on-demand service operated by the topic company but it doesn't provide any "Independent Content" not in-depth information on the company, fails CORPDEPTH and ORGIND
This from bustimes.org appears to be a website run by an enthusiast but the "unofficial" disclaimer lends itself to being rejected as a reliable source.
None of the references meet the criteria for establishing notability of the company. NemesisAT provides a reasoning of adding "reliable publications" - this is pretty much a given *before* examining the content of each source to see if it meets NCORP. Waggers says the references from trade magazines are "independent, reliable sources" that "contain significant coverage of the subject" - I disagree. Especially using the NCORP definition of independent to include "Independent Content". In addition, none of the articles are in-depth about the company. Topic therefore fails WP:NCORP. HighKing++ 20:59, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I largely agree with HighKing's NCORP analysis, so I don't think I need to walk through the references individually: suffice it to say that they lack independent content, don't discuss the company in sufficient depth, or both. There are a few other sources that haven't yet been mentioned (e.g. [35]), but they suffer from the same shortfalls. Another point is that WP:AUD doesn't seem to be satisfied: the only available sources appear to be "media of limited interest and circulation" (e.g. trade journals, which are also explicitly called out as problematic at WP:ORGIND) or "local media", and AUD says we need more than that. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:57, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delte. Lacks independent sources for WP:CORPDEPTH. The two Route-one.net citations make only passing mention. The UK Bus Awards citation has a byline "content provided by Vectare". The operating area cites the company's own site in a password protect area. The sole objective citation was Coach&Bus Week which only mentioned their takeover of a park & ride service. Other sources refer to the company's own site. BlueRiband►14:19, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep plenty of sourced references included compared to some articles which remain and have no AFD - the operator is growing and over time more references will no doubt surface. Mranon2022 (talk) 19:03, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Please see WP:WAX. If in a few years time it becomes notable enough to gain substantial, independent coverage to show notability, the article can always be recreated. Storchy (talk) 06:34, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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A couple references in real estate listings to the "Town of Clear Fork Junction" are quite confusing, as I can nothing referencing this significantly - simply as a railroad waypoint or references to geographic item's relative locations to this. Can't establish that this meets WP:GEOLAND and I'm seeing no evidence that WP:GNG is either. Hog FarmTalk03:53, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
delete In recent years a bunch of houses have been built along the highway on the south side of the river, but the junction itself was removed long ago, and in its heyday there weren't significant structures there. Mangoe (talk) 01:54, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Maps and newspapers refer to a railroad junction, not a community, and there's no significant coverage to establish GNG. –dlthewave☎03:41, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete- not all universities/educational institutions are notable. There are quite many universities which don't meet this criteria, mainly smaller lesser known ones. 747pilot (talk) 20:57, 2 September 2022 (UTC) (Your nomination to delete is considered your "vote". You can comment but not vote more than once. LizRead!Talk!04:16, 7 September 2022 (UTC))[reply]
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Yet another apparent case of a rail stop/post office elevated through GNIS to a "populated place" and thence to a "community" through WP's authorship. The only "habitation" now is an electrical substation which appears in aerials all the way back into the 1950s; a building which one might take as a station sits next to in that image, but that's it. The cited narrative essentially says nobody ever made a town here. Mangoe (talk) 04:15, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - One source describes it as a "hamlet", but there's no evidence of legal recognition to meet GEOLAND and insufficient coverage to meet GNG. –dlthewave☎16:49, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Honey Creek Township. I always prefer to err on the side of retaining articles if there's even borderline evidence of past or present notability, but in this case I have to admit that Guernsey probably doesn't reach even that:
This 1896 map indicates it's just a post office and siding without lots, streets, or any other appurtenances of an actual town. (It also clearly places the PO & siding in Honey Creek instead of Union.) By 1920 it's gone from the maps entirely. Cram's 1888 rail map shows it as a rail station (named "Wright") as does an 1896 map, so it certainly existed, but it seems safe to say that almost nothing else was there. The Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society says that prior to 1950 there was a grain elevator, but photos since show nothing but a railroad crossing. ╠╣uw[talk]20:00, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete Just because it's recognized does not necessarily mean it's notable. There are many educational institutions that do issue degrees but are not notable. This university does not fit the criteria for notability. 747pilot (talk) 21:01, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that any well-accredited degree-issuing tertiary educational institution is presumed to be notable if it is in a Western country (if you dispute this then please give a counter-example), but not if it is in a developing country. Why is that? Phil Bridger (talk) 14:21, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's that some editors' desperate urge to delete everything they come across is likely to fail for institutions in Western countries (or English-speaking ones, at least) and even they know that. Much easier to focus on colleges in Asia and Africa where they're more likely to succeed in their dream. Sadly WP:SYSTEMIC doesn't seem to apply as much as it once did. There was a time when almost no tertiary degree-granting institution was deleted at AfD. Now, if it's in Asia or Africa it's extremely unlikely that it will be kept if it's brought to AfD. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:05, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep/Comment: Well, this is interesting timing. Note the recent news coverage due to a tax investigation raid and the ensuing public reaction. While this does diminish its status as a reputable institution, it IS coverage. I propose that deletion at least be postponed-- if this goes nowhere, we could redirect to some other page relating to the Income Tax division raids in August and September in Gujarat. (Income_Tax_Department#Recent_law_enforcement_actions_by_ITD, perhaps??) Gilded Snail (talk) 15:46, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete clear WP:GNG failure, articles that are essentially just sentences clearly do not provide significant coverage under any reasonable definition, and a search brought up no better sources. Devonian Wombat (talk) 11:46, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The two sources linked above are clearly not independent SIGCOV, with the first having less than a sentence on him from what looks like a press release, and the second one is a couple quotes in another press release (from GFA). JoelleJay (talk) 01:52, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete. No one has identified any sources of SIGCOV, and global consensus rejects any arguments that playing high level football confers or indicates notability, so the keep !votes above must be discarded. JoelleJay (talk) 01:56, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - not one person has been able to locate even one example of significant coverage which could count towards WP:SPORTBASIC or WP:GNG, this takes importance over any weak presumption of notability that could be gained from the handful of squad list mentions that have been found. The keep !votes above either seem to use WP:NFOOTBALL, which has been deprecated or WP:THEREMUSTBESOURCES as an argument. Spiderone(Talk to Spider)19:22, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep with the recognition that the !votes to keep hinge on paywalled sources. If these are found not to meet the bar for GNG, a new AfD may be needed. Vanamonde (Talk)06:48, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There does appear to be some evidence of notability, however is it enough for wikipedia? I struggle to find decent sources myself. But nine caps and two goals at international level. There should be better sourcing around for that surely? Govvy (talk) 22:59, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Folkbladet - nowhere near sigcov of her. Gratistidning - a copy and paste of an article from her employer IFK Norrköping's website which makes it non-independent of her. The nt.se articles are paywalled. Can you share what they say? Last source is a podcast and is useless. Dougal18 (talk) 14:20, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Agreed with Dougal that the sources above are not sufficient for GNG, and even if the NL articles contained SIGCOV they would count as one source and that's not enough. JoelleJay (talk) 02:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, while the sources in the Norrköpings Tidningar article are paywalled, we can pretty well assume from the nature of both the newspaper and the titles that they provide SIGCOV. Since this newspaper is a major regional newspaper that serves several hundred thousand people, it is most likely a reliable source, as such this individual passes WP:GNG. Devonian Wombat (talk) 06:57, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Devonian Wombat I disagree, those headlines read like either transactional retirement reports or interviews, but even if they were SIGCOV they count as ONE source so she still would not pass GNG. JoelleJay (talk) 19:10, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Article about former international footballer (helped Sweden reach the semis of a Euro) and current coach which appears to meet the GNG. The January 2011 NT article about her retirement is behind a paywall but appears likely to be SIGCOV. The July 2022 NT article about her coaching career also appears to be SIGCOV. I know that multiple articles from a "single organization or author" are usually counted as one source, but I don't think that makes much sense when the articles are from different authors, from different decades, and cover different aspects of her career (playing v. coaching). The Folkbladet article is close to SIGCOV but perhaps slightly short of it. On the balance though, I think we get there, and if it's slightly short, this is a good case for IAR (she didn't have an unimportant role in Swedish football). Jogurney (talk) 03:45, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think those NT articles should be considered likely to contain independent SIGCOV -- there is no way to determine whether something is a routine report, a press release, or an interview, all of which are common on NT (see this random recent article I clicked on that turned out to be a press release based on their identical captions). Folkbladet uses the exact same caption as NT for their own "Lilja's important role" article, which suggests it's a news release rather than independent reporting. If we don't even have the authors of the articles, I also don't think we should be assuming the articles are independent. JoelleJay (talk) 20:10, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. The !votes to keep are based largely on speculation about sources that ought to exist, rather than concrete evidence of coverage. While I'm sympathetic to arguments about the difficulty of accessing these, sources presented here, the "delete"s have it. Vanamonde (Talk)06:46, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Per @Bring back Daz Sampson: and @Dwanyewest:. Clearly significant figure in Swedish women's and international football at the time. She helped Sweden win the 1984 Women's Euro, their first ever major trophy, helped her club team Gideonsbergs IF win their only league title in 1992 and was nominated for the Medelpads Fotbollförbund's best ever player, and most likely has offline sources having played in the 1980s-1990s. Thanks, Das osmnezz (talk) 16:36, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There is no evidence that the article will pass WP:GNG based on online English and Swedish-language sources. Unlike her teammate Pia Sundhage, it appears that Gjellan wasn't a notable member of the Euro winning side. Jogurney (talk) 14:35, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep - Significant national TV Channel that has been broadcasting for over 30 years. Any potential promotional nature of the article is fixable, but not really a major cause of concern given that the channel is defunct. --PiccklePiclePikel (talk) 16:21, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
To the closing admin, please disregard the vote above as nearly all (if not all) of this users' votes have been keep while providing minimal and/or unreliable sources (see their contribs). NytharT.C16:28, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@PiccklePiclePikel: Is there a reason you vote "keep" so often? For a user who's been here for only a week, you seem to know more than regular newcomers, unless you've previously edited using an IP or something. NytharT.C16:47, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Probably because it's easier to participate substantially in an article discussion that in your opinion is obviously notable in some way rather than the articles where you have your doubts. PiccklePiclePikel (talk) 16:56, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
If somebody who can read Turkish is able to provide proper reliable source coverage to get it over WP:GNG before this discussion closes, then keep; if they do not, then delete. Absolutely nothing that can ever be claimed about any topic ever exempts it from actually having to have sources — even an "inherently" notable claim still has to be verified by sourcing to support it. Bearcat (talk) 17:26, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Appears to fail WP:GNG. After a cleanup of promotional, unsourced, and trivial life-story style language, further searches show minimal results. NytharT.C02:47, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@PiccklePiclePikel:This is the version before I cleaned it up. Would you mind explaining how a primary source (the company website), WP:ROUTINE coverage by radio-info.com, and two other difficult-to-access sources (which do not alone appear to indicate notability) are relevant? NytharT.C17:10, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I thought you had removed only 2 sources. But now I see you have removed 4! Sources should not be removed simply because you were unable to access them. In addition with the two Billboard (magazine) articles that were referenced, the article would have apparently indicated its own notability in the version before your edits. PiccklePiclePikel (talk) 17:17, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@PiccklePiclePikel: Have a look at what the Billboard sources are referenced for in the article. One of them cites something about playing hours of Frank Sinatra's music after his death, which isn't notable. The other is cited for two different things (a, b) which are about commercials and advertisements; see them for yourself. Neither the first Billboard source nor the second source are used to reference something of notability in the article. When I removed the non-notable sections, I also removed the sources; why would I just leave the sources, if they aren't used for anything? This + them being difficult to access (to answer your question, I didn't access them), led me to remove them. Objection? NytharT.C17:40, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Simply put, you are not supposed to remove any sources for simply not being able to access them at the time. You have not read either of those articles that were used as sources. Also i'm not convinced that removing those sources and the sections of the article that those were used as references for was a right move as I think you simply saw the word "commercial" and decided it doesn't belong. Part of the sentences talk about the historical context of commercials and advertising at the time, that seems quite relevant in the context of an article about a radio station. PiccklePiclePikel (talk) 18:09, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@PiccklePiclePikel: This is going in the direction of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. No, your description of what the Billboard sources reference is incorrect. Source #3 is placed after: "Films such as Sleepless in Seattle, and a number of commercials, had used the music found in the adult standards format." -- not relevant to the subject of the article, simply speaking of the history of "adult standards format" (see Category:Adult standards radio stations in the United States). Source #3 is also placed after: "Affiliates were learning that going after over-50 listeners was nothing to be ashamed of; these people were active and had much money to spend, and advertisers could reach them if they just made the effort." -- again, not relevant; it's referring to history. Source #4 is placed after: "When Frank Sinatra died in 1998, Music of Your Life played 36 straight hours of his music. Since more people listened to this special programming than to what the format usually aired, the popularity of the music with a new audience was reinforced." -- is this promotional, non-notable section the only notable thing this radio network has done?
1. Moving on to these new sources you provided -- so what if it's publicly traded? Another source you've provided (Yahoo Finance) seems to me to be routine coverage -- it's Yahoo Finance, a finance website, and it's focused on CEO Marc Angell's "expectations" (saying he "expects") with insignificant amounts of company history. Also, it's an interview; see WP:42#Independent Sources. It's also a promotional article, asking the reader to visit the Music of Your Life website.
2. The World Radio History source is also an interview (see bottom-left and top-center of the PDF).
3. The Prweb source isn't an wp:independent source. The author is MARC ANGELL, the CEO of the company that owns Music of Your Life (see right side).
Actually it sounds exactly as if WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT applies to you. The point is, you DELETED a source that you DID NOT READ. You do not know to what extent the source talked about Music of Your Life specifically and presumably one of those articles was quite specifically about it given that Music of Your Life is in the title. PiccklePiclePikel (talk) 20:28, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
About your earlier question, you are right, but "Editors coming across an article of ... a company without ... references are encouraged to search (or request that others search) prior to nominating for deletion, given the very high (but not certain) likelihood that a publicly traded company is actually notable according to the primary criterion." per WP:LISTED. Generally we should not just remove sources. Even if it was the right move to delete that part of the article, which is an open question since none of us actually read the source, you can keep the source there in a list of sources that do not have in-line citations. We don't know what other parts of the article used information from that source since the article lacks substantial in-line citations. Then, later on, an editor who is able to access that source, or looks up that text in a physical library, can make a judgement based on the actual contents of that source. It seems a bit disingenuous to put up an article for deletion citing 'inability to find sources', when you have personally deleted sources from that same article that you have not had access to.--PiccklePiclePikel (talk) 21:47, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Zero sources found, one brief mention of the host, rest are hits on the phrase. Not sure how they could distribute the music over the internet in 1997 to HD radio stations, the bandwidth wasn't available yet and you were still in the era of floppy discs and CD-R's that crapped out of you sneezed on them, with a whopping 2x recording speed. Almost appears made up. Oaktree b (talk) 03:29, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The sources used are from 1997, but the "thing" has been distributing music since 1978? That's well before the computer era. The article is nonsense as it stands. TNT is the best option, with proper sourcing, but none has been found; still leaning delete. Oaktree b (talk) 03:33, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
DeleteKeep per below I was trying to remember where I've heard of TVS before, and then I remembered TVS Television Network, who had its trademarks bought out by one of those "Internet moguls" who throw a bunch of random public domain or giveaway content onto a server under its name and call it a Roku channel and whose spam I had to keep out of a historical article (see here for what they air, a lot of sketchy 'off-VHS' content which I'm sure they don't own or is in the 'orphaned' grey area where its ultimate owners in old sports leagues no longer exist).
So for this...a dying trademark for a very terminal and generic 'nostalgia standards' format whose only WP:N was a trademark for a radio network at a time they were rare, but is now standard in the radio industry, and paying celebrities to patter between the music to instead of generic DJs, with ratings that barely exist. And since 2013 when it was sold off it's been part of those 'Internet moguls with big dreams' networks you've probably got spam about as a Pink Sheets 'investment opportunity' (yup, it's one of those penny stocks) involving dead properties that are resurrected as barely-viable zombie operations (there are multiple standards stations that don't make you pay $5/month to access just one audio feed on a WordPress site of questionable security). It's part of a company called The Marquie Group that also has...a beauty line?! And I guess a CBD line (which is a vanity company for the owner's wife, who apparently hosts a beauty tips segment for millennials and zoomers on an AM standards radio network for some reason. Yeah...). This isn't anything outside a small mention in the Peter Marshall, Wink Martindale and Gary Owens articles as part of their late life sections when the network was viable, not a money vacuum for weird daytraders. Nate•(chatter)10:08, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and refocus on the original radio format. It looks like corporate cruft in the present day, from which no notability is derived, is weighing the page down badly. However, there is SIGCOV on the network and stations from the 80s. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:51, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Agreed; those sources truly help the article and it should be focused on its successful prime, not its struggling current penny stock iteration; despite what I said above, I knew Sammi would find much better sources for this which are much more promising than the Angell version. Nate•(chatter)19:28, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Mrschimpf (and others), I have refocused the article using the references below and others. I can't get any SIGCOV or even an interview quote past 2009, so I'm not sure how much of its latter-day existence can or should be covered. I think that the sources I have found and rewritten copy also rebut the assertions by @Oaktree b in particular. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:41, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep as this brand was popular amongst older listeners in years gone by. It is also, in radio circles, so synonymous with the adult standards format that “Music of Your Life”, or “MOYL”, gets used as the format’s name instead of adult standards. It has become the generic term in some cases like Kleenex has to facial tissue. Stereorock (talk) 00:03, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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A 2012 NAC at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Forest Lake Village Shopping Centre based on, IMO, false premises. Australia is well covered by reliable sources. This is not a question of representation in non English language media. Also, much has changed w/r/t organizational notability since then and I am unable to find evidence that this is a notable mall. There are hits, which include a cancelled expansion, an application for a car wash, job fairs hosted at the mall and coverage of events, such as a parking lot carjacking, but nothing that adds to WP:ORG. StarMississippi01:29, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete almost a run of the mill shopping center, nothing architecturally exciting about it, not historic, hardly noteworthy. No sources found beyond routine announcements as explained above. Oaktree b (talk) 02:30, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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The promotional tone could be fixed, however a BEFORE identifies only more of what's in the article, churnalism and PR coverage of some of their community engagement. Nothing to indicate the company meets N:ORG. StarMississippi01:23, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete nothing found beyond the usual PR fluff, "one member wins $5000" and the like. They've been around since 1932, I'd expect something out there, but nothing... Oaktree b (talk) 02:25, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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This article is about a chef that lacks significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources to establish notability. The sourcing in the article fails to establish notability. The version at nomination has 6 references:
Allrecipes interview - not a reliable source
Chef Vibes - a blog which is not a reliable source
Benjaminepicure - the subject's own website which is clearly not independent
Tripadvisor - not a reliable source
Scoopearth "article" - Scoop Earth is not a reliable source and advertises its services including as digital marketing.
Smithmorecastle - the subject's place of work is clearly not indpendent.
This paid article fails to establish notability with the provided sources and I cannot find any coverage in my own searches. Whpq (talk) 00:48, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
'Delete no sources found; I almost thought his name was a marketing gimmick (Epicure chef, very nice), but I guess not. Sources found are what's in the article, his website, trip advisor and his employer's website. A good chef, but not notable. Oaktree b (talk) 02:28, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Smithmore Castle. The article has already been paid with the disclosure template included in the talk page, and was edited to sound non-promotional. As the subject is an employee of Smithmore Castle, the subject could have some of his related information in there. (E.g. There would be a new section or header that would include all the people related to Smithmore. After having significant coverage in the near future, then the subject involved could have his Wikipedia page live. ReVeluv02 (talk) 08:01, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There is no independent reliable sources to support even merging. As well, I'm in the middle of WP:BEFORE activity which may result in an AFD for the target article. Whpq (talk) 12:55, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Okay thank you for the response. I understand your discussion. Maybe could at least be considered for a redirect to Smithmore Castle rather than deleting? ReVeluv02 (talk) 02:21, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - truly awful paid editing. If Epicure is notable, which is not at all clear from the sources, then he deserves a better article than this, and his money back from the authoring editor. As an aside, why does their Talkpage not disclose they are receiving payment for churning out this crap? KJP1 (talk) 20:27, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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This is a mill that was mislabeled as a populated place by GNIS and subsequently created as an "unincorporated community" stub. I could not locate any independent sourcing that mentions a community of this name, and the few newspaper hits covering minor occurrences at the mill are insufficient to meet GNG. This article was recently PROD deleted and subsequently restored by a request for undeletion. Although any PROD can be reversed upon request, this particular request seems to misunderstand both the purpose of Wikipedia (they mentioned its usefulness to genealogy research, which typically uses primary sources that cover topics far below our notability standards) and the reliability of sources that came up in a Google search (RoadsideThoughts and Hometown Locator are notorious GNIS scrapers). –dlthewave☎00:29, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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