Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Burlington Company


 * 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 keep.  A r k y a n  &#149; (talk) 21:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Burlington Company

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Orphaned page for a year now. Nothing in the text to indicate why this group is notable in any way, and nothing to indicate what this group actually did other than that they foreclosed on some mortgages over a three year period. The name makes it pretty much impossible to search for any material from which to expand the article. -  Irides centi   (talk to me!)  13:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * actually this company gets 14 results on Google Scholar and all seem to be related to this company specifically, and seem somewhat impressive (reputable journals and books). I'll see if I can expand the article from sources available over JSTOR... not really sure what the results will be. --W.marsh 14:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * If it can be expanded/sourced at all, I'll withdraw this AfD - I do think there's a reasonable chance that any organization from that period will be notable in some way - I was just finding too many false-positives to get any material to expand it from. -  Irides centi   (talk to me!)  14:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh I'm really not sure it can be expanded at all, by me at least... looking at the references is pretty slow-going so far. This might be more suited to an actual historian. --W.marsh 14:30, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

As March and Iridescenti observed, there should be more. Our reluctance to use non on-line sources is incompatible with producing a general encyclopedia. WP: the encyclopedia of the world since 1990. DGG 02:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * keep. the material in the article shows it notable in New York State history. Naturally, not much will be found on line, but one totally reliable printed source is present.
 * Strong keep The topic of this article is actually central to the formation of several New York State communities, and has roots extending throughout the foundation of the US. I have cleaned up the article, added several references and added several statements supporting the relevance of this article. - Freechild 16:43, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I also de-orphanized the poor article. I'm afraid that many poorly written articles suffer the same treatment of this one; although they are of significance to the WP project, they are deleted because their case isn't made very well. - Freechild 16:46, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

In light of the cleanup I'd say this is now worth keeping. -  irides centi   (talk to me!)  09:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
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