Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Dateline Hotel


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The result was keep.  Sandstein  19:12, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

International Dateline Hotel

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This is a 126 room hotel in Tonga. Its website is the 6,529,993th most visited website in the world according to Alexa (https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tanoadateline.com). What is notable here? Am i missing something? Uhooep (talk) 19:38, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Oceania-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 04:01, 10 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment: This is the largest hotel in Tonga, if that's something. However, it does seem to lack coverage in reliable sources — a search turned up very little other than advertising or passing mentions. Brad  v  04:15, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep: I've added some details and refs: Loop is an independent source and reports the reopening of the hotel by the King. It is by no means every new hotel which gets opened by a country's head of state! The government press release also makes it clear that the hotel was regarded as a significant tourism resource, worth preserving. Our Pacific is a commercial web page but they are careful to report their evaluation separately from "what the hotel says about itself". They provide good background information including its status as a VIP hotel (from that point of view, like the Bayerischer Hof in Munich). --Mirokado (talk) 22:07, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
 * (update) I have added further refs for some events following the refurbishments, which confirm the hotel's significant role, and also two mentioning China's investment in the hotel. This is significant because of the claim that it was China's first entry into free-market Pacific tourism, thus a harbinger for China's current economic influence. --Mirokado (talk) 00:51, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep I had a look, with those updates the article looks fine to satisfy WP:GNG. Govvy (talk) 10:32, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep, article satisfies WP:GNG. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:40, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep – while much of the coverage of this hotel is indeed promotional or routine, the material found by Mirokado is enough to convince me that the topic satisfies WP:GNG. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 17:12, 13 October 2018 (UTC)


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