Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coylet Inn


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:54, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Coylet Inn

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Reviewed as part of NPP. I kind of wanted to keep, this is the sort of article I like, but I can't see how it meets NBUILDING (for the building), NCORP as a business, or plain old GNG. Current sourcing is a 404 link to a commercial website, a listing in a directory, a brief mention in a local newspaper article about a fire at the building, and a brief mention in a local newspaper article about a spooky encounter at a hen do there. I've checked sites like Historic Environment Scotland and Canmore to see if they have anything, but all I could find was a passing mention in Canmore's description of the nearby (and similarly named) Coylet Hotel, a related but separate archaeological site. Can't find any better sourcing, so I can't find a route to notability. Girth Summit  (blether) 13:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
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 * Comment A number of additional sources have now been added to the article; however, none of them gives any significant detail about the hotel, the details are all about the ghost story associated with it, and the fact that a film was made about the ghost. From all of the combined sources, all we can say about the hotel itself is that it exists, that Emma Thompson had a wedding reception there, and that it is a 17th Century coaching inn (and that last one is rather dubious - none of the sources are RS for architectural details, and from what I can make out from the pictures it looks much more recent - it's possible that there was merely a coaching in on the site in the 17th C, or that some of the fabric of the current building is old, but without a good architectural source I wouldn't be comfortable with that description). I would be happy to withdraw the nomination if a decent description of the building could be found in an RS like a Pevsner, or if some descriptions of the hotel itself were found (in the form of reviews) in RS, but at the moment I would suggest a possible merge and redirect to The Blue Boy (film), which covers the film made about the ghost story (which is really what the substantial sources are about). Girth Summit  (blether)  10:08, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Just noting that I have now managed to get my hands on a copy of FA Walker's book on the region (part of the Pevsner series of architectural guides). It has descriptions of several buildings on the shores of Loch Eck, but this isn't one of them. This strengthens my view that the inn isn't notable as a building - those books are pretty comprehensive in their coverage. It could in theory still be notable as a hotel if there were multiple reviews in RS that would satisfy NCORP, but I'm not seeing them. Girth Summit  (blether)  09:30, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete We don't keep Wikipedia pages about a house just because there is a story about a haunting. Show RS about the house outside of a ghost story. Sgerbic (talk) 05:52, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as a non-notable bed and breakfast. --Lockley (talk) 19:17, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per Nom. -Roxy the elfin dog . wooF 14:10, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


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