Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Boswell Group


 * 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 soft delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗ plicit  14:13, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Alan Boswell Group

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Apparent lack of significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Eastern Daily Press is the subject's main source and although I'm not disputing its reliability for pages about East Anglia but this Eastern Daily Press article says "Alan Boswell Group has purchased the building in Rouen Road from media group Archant. Archant, which publishes the Eastern Daily Press and the Norwich Evening News, will remain in the building leasing one floor." so the subject and the source are connected. Most of EDP's coverage consists of routine press announcements that mainly consist of direct quotes from the subject but offer little in the way of synthesis, analysis and criticism leading to what I feel is a lack of significant coverage of this subject online. Other sources like this one are trade publications that ostensibly reprint press releases, same goes for Cambridgeshire live and I find it hard to believe that the subject's local Chamber of Commerce is independent of the subject.BigheadBigheadBighead (talk) 12:45, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies and England. CptViraj (talk) 12:50, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 16:38, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:09, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * This is probably a delete because the Boswell group, while a substantial company, is ultimately a routine financial company like many others. It attracts attention in the local press when it acquires other smaller companies, and it also has a charitable wing who've funded a lot of local good causes, thereby also getting some quotes in papers. But, and this is an enormous but, it is completely wrong and misguided to treat the Eastern Daily Press and the group as related. One may be, legally-speaking, the other's landlord, but that's a very long way from the Eastern Daily Press's editor being a puppet of the Boswell's, or that the EDP has lost its editorial independence. The fundamental problem for the article is that no one else outside a very localised/specialised press is actually writing about Boswell's, and everything I can find looks like a press-release anyway. Elemimele (talk) 19:53, 13 December 2023 (UTC)


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