Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curtis Bros. & Co

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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was NO CONSENSUS. -Doc^g 10:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Curtis Bros. & Co

Template tags show lack of references; I can't tell whether all the statements in the article are true or not. Also, less than 1000 ghits casts doubt on notability. YechielMan 21:27, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Possible failure of WP:CORP, and I was not able to locate any reliable sources with which to verify the validity of the information included within the article. Kyra_~(talk) 19:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~. Neutral. Per nom and WP:CORP. The references provided may help this company squeak by. However, I find it questionable whether a local history and local article detailing a plant closing make for notability. Therefore, I have changed my "vote" accordingly. Vassyana 12:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Using an internet search engine created over 40 years after a company closed is the incorrect method of determining notabilty of such company. That said, even with the dubious availability of hyperlinks, internet research shows it was the subject of multiple non-trivial published works, one from a newspaper when the business closed in the 1960's [1] and one from a historical book. [2]. (both inserted into article). These are additional to the work History of the Lumber and Forest Industry of the Northwest already supplied by an article editor. Passes the criteria of WP:CORP. --Oakshade 22:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as sourced. Not an overwhelming case that it meets CORP, but I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to a company that existed for 100 years.--Kubigula (talk) 20:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A large part of this article could be a copyright violation. Some of the verb tenses in the section on Company Beginnings suggest literal copying from another source, like the use of present tense referring to people who were born before 1850. ("Judson E. Carpenter who is an uncle of..."). EdJohnston 06:36, 5 February 2007 (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.