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
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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 09:33, 1 December 2017 (UTC)reply
I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing
Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed
Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. " It was deprodded by
User:Necrothesp with the following rationale "53 restaurants seems reasonable for an article". I disagree, having an x-outlets is not seen as a criteria of notability in any policy or guideline I am familiar with. A company can have hundreds of outlets and still be totally non-notable. As I discussed in my
Signpost Op-Ed, this is a good example of Yellow-Pages like company spam. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here 12:39, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. One editor's "Yellow Pages company spam" is many others' "useful information about something you didn't know about before". The contention that "a company can have hundreds of outlets and still be totally non-notable" is bizzare as by that size there would be enough coverage to pass GNG unless a company was actively trying to avoid it. All that aside, while I can't read Norweigan a quick Google/gNews search turns up enough links about the company (including several titled newspaper articles) to indicate that this is, in fact, a Wikinotable company. (And somebody really needs to write the essay
WP:Company articles are not automatically spam) -
The BushrangerOne ping only 06:20, 11 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Opinions here are going to be purely subjective, but I think that a chain of restaurants of this size is definitely notable. I would suggest that such a chain in Britain or the United States wouldn't have a chance of being deleted. --
Necrothesp (
talk) 13:18, 15 November 2017 (UTC)reply
delete size of the chain at 50 odd is irrelevant. what matters is coverage. 6 odd gnews hits doesn't meet GNG and WP:CORP when some of it looks routine.
LibStar (
talk) 02:18, 17 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 06:58, 17 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete the amount of coverage is not enough to show notability for a company.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 05:16, 19 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete -- Something remarkable about the menu? No. Business model? No. Number of outlets? In Norway perhaps. A promotional means to get to the top of Google searches? Absolutely.
Rhadow (
talk) 14:13, 24 November 2017 (UTC)reply
What has only being in Norway got to do with anything? --
Necrothesp (
talk) 13:52, 29 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete- despite all the cries of "but there
must be sources out there somewhere" after three weeks it's still only sourced to the official website, and my own searches have come up with nothing useful either. I'm a bit surprised that a chain with 50+ restaurants wouldn't have coverage necessary for
WP:N, but that seems to be the reality.
ReykYO! 13:46, 27 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Enough coverage from Norwegian newspapers to establish notability. --
Michig (
talk) 07:26, 1 December 2017 (UTC)reply
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