Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gourmet Burger Co


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 06:03, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Gourmet Burger Co

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A chain of 5 restaurants in the Toronto area, this does not meet notability standards.  PK T (alk)  16:26, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions.  PK  T (alk)  16:28, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions.  PK  T (alk)  16:28, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Indeed, genuinely substantive coverage of the chain is lacking here: apart from the company's own website (a primary source), very nearly all of the sourcing here is to blurby "ranking" articles with headlines like "Toronto's Top 10 Burgers"; the only one that doesn't fit that description is a dead link in a defunct publication which still looks like it was probably just a restaurant review. None of this adequately demonstrates why the chain would warrant an article in an international encyclopedia. And I'm saying all of this as someone who lives in Toronto, has eaten at this place and likes it quite a lot — but unfortunately, "Bearcat likes it" is not a notability claim that passes muster in an encyclopedia, and this article as written hasn't come up with a better one. Delete, without prejudice against recreation in the future if someone can write and source it properly. Bearcat (talk) 16:37, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 00:28, 24 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete I went through the first several pages of search results and couldn't find anything by an independent source other than yelp/yellowpages type results. Pretty clearly non-notable. --Sammy1339 (talk) 21:34, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
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