Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larkin Community Hospital


 * 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. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:14, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Larkin Community Hospital

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Delete nothing to indicate that this hospital is notable, no sources, no apparent significant coverage in reliable third party sources. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:42, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Here also, no significant coverage (not even a press release that I could find); this entry is appropriate in a directory but not here. 207.157.121.50 (talk) 17:53, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:12, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:12, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, I'd be inclined to call speedy for lack of content, but wish to give a chance to make it work. It says it's a hospital in Miami, that's it.  Nothing more than that.  Somebody do us something?-- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 19:28, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice work. Keep. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 00:04, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Just because an article is a stub is no reason to delete it. I have edited the article incorporating multiple reliable references and it now certainly more than meets notability requirements  not only in theory but in reality. It is important to look for information before deleting.  Any hospital or large corporation in the U.S. will have sufficient independent references to establish notability and verifiability. Drawn Some (talk) 21:05, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep this hospital has a wacky and well documented past, involving no less than Jimmy Hoffa. I have also added several sources. --Chiliad22 (talk) 21:23, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * That's interesting stuff, better than what I found. I started a new category, Wacky hospitals and medical centers. Drawn Some (talk) 21:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * There's a lot of stuff that isn't encyclopedic but is just utterly bizarre about this hospital... among the doctor's they've had on staff have included a registered sex offender who assaulted a patient at the hospital and a heart surgeon who claimed to suffer from ever-increasing memory lapses, who agreed to turn himself in on charges of fraud and perjury but kept working at the hospital. At any rate, the muslim student incident in 2002 appears to have been a relatively major news story, with over 150 stories in Newsbank about it, many of them criticizing Larkin Hospital for its actions. --Chiliad22 (talk) 21:43, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you think the ER doc/child molester should be included? I didn't actually read the articles about that but I did see them. Drawn Some (talk) 22:37, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Nah the article is about the hospital, not the individual doctors... unless they somehow effect overall operation of the hospital, I'd think. --Chiliad22 (talk) 22:42, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Keep Even if hospitals are not considered inherently notable, the references meet WP:GNG. Erik9 (talk) 00:14, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. No specific claim to fame other than a couple of local scandals. JFW | T@lk  10:16, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * WP:CORP, the applicable guideline here, says "A company, corporation, organization, team, religion, group, product, or service is notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in secondary sources". The article demonstrates that. What guideline are you basing your argument to delete on? At any rate, I find it unlikely that the nation's leading newspapers universally reporting on an event means it's just a "local scandal". --Chiliad22 (talk) 13:56, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.