Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth Fare


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The result was keep. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 01:33, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Earth Fare

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Fails WP:NCORP. Less than 50 locations (I seem to find that at least 100 locations passes NCORP) and no presented notability. There are dozens of health food stores, being one in multiple states doesn't make it notable. Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs)  21:40, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. <b style="color:#3399FF">Redditaddict69</b> <sup style="color:#339900">(talk)  <sup style="color:#7F007F">(contribs)  21:57, 11 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment – A good AfD nom to look at similar to this is WP:Articles for deletion/Kilwins. Corp with 125+ locations in 20+ states. Barely passed as no consensus. <b style="color:#3399FF">Redditaddict69</b> <sup style="color:#339900">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(contribs)  00:05, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, added a couple secondary sources. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:07, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Can't see how two sources can help meet WP:GNG. Yes, they count towards it, but they aren't generally recognized as sufficient. <b style="color:#3399FF">Redditaddict69</b> <sup style="color:#339900">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(contribs)  00:11, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I said "weak keep" because I was still in the process of adding sources. Most of what I'm finding is coverage of new store openings, but this seems like particularly substantial coverage, as does this article in a retail trade magazine (albeit a Google Books snippet). Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:26, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Added a ref to a 1300+ word profile from 1998 in The Post and Courier. Bakazaka (talk) 06:49, 12 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep as sources in article and available in newspaper databases meet WP:NCORP requirements for significant, in-depth coverage. "Number of locations" is not part of policy or guidelines, except when discussing whether individual stores should have articles, which is not applicable here. Pre-internet coverage matters just as much as Google-able coverage, and this company has it, primarily because of their unusual and early pursuit of organic food as a niche market. Several sources are local, but WP:NCORP is clear: "the significance is not determined by the reputation of the source" but by reliability and independence, both of which are met by available sources. Bakazaka (talk) 01:02, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep There appear to be enough sources -, should qualify under WP:GNG and WP:NCORP. It seems unusual but there are a lot of passing mentions in Google Scholar, which suggest that the company, unlike Kilwins, registers strongly in the consciousness of the academia, even if passing mentions don't qualify for notability purposes (I should also say that I had not check all of them to see if they are more in-depth coverage there).  Hzh (talk) 23:25, 18 October 2018 (UTC)


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