Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bodens


 * 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. SarahStierch (talk) 05:59, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Bodens

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This article was previously a WP:PROD on the rationale "Article is referenced to primary sources and directories; no reliable sources indicating that this company meets the WP:CORPDEPTH criteria." The Prod was removed by the article creator after adding a local newspaper link about their involvement in the annual Connections competition, along with a note on the Talk page. The references remain too weak for WP:CORPDEPTH, in my opinion, and WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a sustainable argument, so I'm bringing this article to AfD on the original Prod rationale. AllyD (talk) 22:50, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 01:05, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 01:05, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 01:05, 11 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete -- unless I am mistaken this is little more than a proprietory youth club, charging parents for their children to be taught ballet, other dance and drama, after school or at weekends. There are 100s of such institutions and they are all NN.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:18, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete as spam, never mind what they do there... Peridon (talk) 18:10, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi Im Calumk I wrote the article, I feel it is valid and should not be deleted, I have edited the page so as to remove anything that seems like advertising / spam, and i asure you thats not the point of this article. "Bodens" is a performing arts school, with a very good reputation among the youth theatre schools in the UK, It is notable for several reasons, Including producing / teaching several people involved in london theatre. I have added a 'Notable Ex-Students' section to the page which i plan to expand on over the next few weeks. Although mentioning other stuff WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is quite rightly not a good argument, It is also not a reason for deletion. The article is Defiantly not NN, as Bodens is referenced to in articles from newspapers, and mentioned in other sites run by the national theatre in London, as well as producing and writing the new musical 'A Little Princess' which was performed earlier this year, and is now in the process of being made available for other companies to perform. Its worth mentioning that the school has also been running for a notable period of time (30 years), and is not just a new 'club' trying to get on wikipedia... One of the people who put this article up for deletion said "I havent heard of it" which i think is also a pretty lousy reason for trying to delete something... Especially on wikipedia, which is designed specifically to tell you things, you dont already know. Calumk (talk) 14:41, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It's looking better, but the good refs need increasing, with something less local than the Watford Observer if possible. Find a way of losing any 'offerings'. Say which productions the kids were used in. Izzy Frizzle's School of Entertainment may supply kids for similar works, but if they're all at the Little Theatre at Much Twittering in the Bushes they wouldn't count for much. But if they got reviewed in the Times... (The kids, that is.) You've still got time, and I can always revive it later if it goes and you tell me you've some new good stuff. Wikipedia won't be complete for at least another six months. BTW I said I'd heard of Chickenshed and that to me Bodens meant a wood shavings using business. (I see their wagons all over on the motorways. Amazing that there are so many wood shavings to be had in these days of plastic and flatpack...) Wikipedia is for telling people about things that can be referenced in accordance with our policies, and not for things that are unknown. If you can get the article up to scratch, I'll happily change my !vote. Peridon (talk) 16:11, 14 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - Coverage is insufficient to meet notability. Aide from the Watford Observer, none of the sources are useful in establishing notability. -- Whpq (talk) 16:10, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
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