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Notability for the Military, Naval & County Services Club
Mootros has questioned this entry on "notability". This entry does have "notability", but it is hard to prove. People tend to cover up their failures and this club was a Grand Failure. Unique issues: - The premises have survived until today. This club is part of a series of clubs using it. I dislike gaps. - The courts decided its bankruptcy was for a "commercial enterprise". The members were not made responsible for the huge debts. (Think of Lloyd's Names paying up). This jurisprudence makes the club significant. - One of the initiators managed to cover up completely. He has his own Wiki-page. His 2008 biographer did not find his involvement. Now, should Wikipedia fill a gap by adding existing references never linked to this person? - The club gets mentioned in articles for 30 years after it had closed down. That is a long lasting echo. - The club never was a primary topic of an article or a book (because it was short-lived and failed) I am working to improve the article.

I had no idea I got myself into an editing war (and I am not interested thank you). I find the "List" articles most useful for research. I do notice that links to valid clubs point to different clubs. I have no clue how to set up disambiguation pages. I understand the wish to have a LIST, not a DIRECTORY, but I do not agree. My use of such lists is to find out what existed. Directories do yield data I can use for further research.


 * Thank you for your thoughts. Please sign your posts. Best wishes, Mootros (talk) 02:54, 19 October 2012 (UTC)