Talk:Doctor's Associates

Not notable
Doctor's Associates is not notable for anything but running Subway, so there's no reason to have a separate article about it. -- Zsero (talk) 03:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * How is it notable in its own right? -- Zsero (talk) 03:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, it's certainly not a question of notability, because this is a very well publicised name.

It's merely a question of whether an entity that has no purpose other than the ownership of another entity deserves its own article. I'm pretty sure the point of redirection is to consolidate confusingly similar article titles, not to merge completely separate names on the basis of similar ownership.

Also, people like me are likely to look it up on Wikipedia to try and find out what medical instiutions endorse or are affiliated with the company (none), and it's not very helpful to just get redirected to Subway!

InternetMeme (talk) 06:48, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * You are wrong about redirects; they are regularly used for titles that do not warrant articles of their own, and whose information is in some other article.
 * There is nothing about Doctor's Associates that is in the least notable, except for running the Subway franchise. Everything you could possibly want to know about DA is already in the Subway article.  If this had originally been an article someone would immediately have proposed a merger into the Subway article, which would have passed overwhelmingly, and what would be the result of that merger?  A redirect, exactly as it always has been.  If you insist I will formally propose a merger and go through all the associated rigmarole, but I really don't see the point.  -- Zsero (talk) 15:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I thought about it and came up with a compromise that may be sensible. I've created a section in the Subway (restaurant) article called Doctor's Associates, and moved the information from this page into that section. I've also made the present article redirect to that section. What do you think? InternetMeme (talk) 12:32, 8 April 2008 (UTC)