Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/College Housing Northwest

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 Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-04-27 11:30Z

College Housing Northwest

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• Delete : does not demonstrate notability through sources. Aboutmovies 23:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - Perhaps, users should lean towards spending their time expanding articles, improving them, and making them notable instead of tagging them for deletion. Maybe do a Google search and see if the business exists and then maybe try to establish notability that way. Perhaps, add a stub tag, or expand it and move on. It seems that if peoples' work and contributions are deleted that they will not want to contribute. --Remi 01:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Wait, what? I can't believe you would have the gall to even respond in such a manner. First of all, to assume that the above Wikipedians have NOT looked around for reliable sources to back up, or support the notability of this topic is a massive violation of WP:AGF. It's really offensive to even suggest such a thing. Google clearly supports the fact that this business exists - however, I cannot, as I would assume the other two contributors, find any reliable sources which back up notability! Furthermore, arguing for a "Keep" verdict, based on the fact that you have assumed bad faith about the actions of other Wikipedians is absurd in the extreme. As a result, I argue Delete, and urge you to strike your argument out. --Haemo 01:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment - when I search for an Oregon company at the Portland Business Journal website and get zero articles about a company, then I usually look no further. Instead I spend my time starting articles that demonstrate their notability to begin with using proper sources. The onus is on the editors who want to keep an article. Not every company/organization/thing in the universe gets an article, as outline in WP:WWIN. I spend a lot of time expanding articles to meet the notability requirments and normally support articles that are up for deletion, but articles like this hurt Wikipedia by allowing others to think articles like this are OK. If it is notable, add the sources and that's the end of the discussion. Otherwise it goes. Aboutmovies 01:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment 2: BTW, I started Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Companies to improve and expand the coverage of businesses in Oregon and of the five Fortune 1000 companies in the state I wrote four of the articles. Aboutmovies 02:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment I haven't voted yet, I was just helping Aboutmovies by adding the standard formatting to this page, which he seemed to have forgotten. Please don't assume I was backing the deletion nomination. I haven't decided yet. Katr67 02:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, not to be snarky but the same could be said for creators taking the time to make an attempt to assert notability and provide sources. I found few ghits outside of CHN's websites. I agree they exist, but see no notability.--killing sparrows 01:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable. --RaiderAspect 09:58, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Have also used Microsoft's Live Search and find nothing that establishes any notability. I have found a PDF profile for the company at [1] but I see nothing there that sets them apart from any other student housing organization. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 13:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:CORP. A bunch of G-hits, but none that actually lead to reliable sources. If any Keep proponent can find some we can't, feel free to raise them to our attention.  Ravenswing  14:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete utterly non notable. There is nothing here that looks different from college rental companies I'm familiar with in East Lansing. --Helm.ers 21:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

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