Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Louisiana Lightning


 * 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   delete. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 06:00, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Louisiana Lightning

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Advertisement for a whiskey that does not appear to meet WP:GNG. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:23, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2014 December 3.  — cyberbot I  Notify Online 18:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:15, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Delete as per nom. Didn't find any coverage suggesting notability; current article is essentially an advertisement. News sources suggested LL may be a nickname for a football player or team (?) and the term may have been around to describe a type of whiskey (not a specific company) during the mid 19th century in southern US.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 21:06, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 00:46, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm unable to find significant independent coverage for this business. The bizneworleans article is good but isn't enough coverage on its own. Chuy1530 (talk) 21:28, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * KEEP - I do not know if this is the correct place for this opinion, however: how is this wiki page any different then the other thousands is pages on other distilleries, breweries, and wineries?  Louisiana Lightning is a whiskey just like Jack Daniels, Ole smokey, and Jim beam.  A google search will show that people are searching for and blogging about Louisiana Lightning.  Isn't that what Wikipedia is for, a place for people learn about something?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.251.115.64 (talk) 19:39, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * This is the correct place for your opinion, although if you want to !vote you'll want to start your comment with an asterisk and say either "Delete" or "Keep." The standards for having an article here are that the subject should have significant coverage in multiple secondary sources. If you can find multiple news articles or the like that discuss this company in more than a passing mention then we may have enough to make a reliable article out of, but when I looked I couldn't find much. Chuy1530 (talk) 21:16, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

*KEEP    I created this page for Louisiana Lightning Clear Sour Mash Whisky. I have travelled to many distillers and when this one opened up in my home state the amount of interest it generated was extremely great. Many people get excited about local flavor and fauna and I thought wiki would be a great avenue for people to learn about this. As mentioned above, there are wiki pages for all American distilleries. This is NOT an advertisement. Please tell me how to improve this page and I will be more than happy to change it however you would like. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phoenix25782000 (talk • contribs) 18:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia has rules regarding sources, verifiability, noteworthiness, not misusing references as spam links, and so forth, which take time to learn. My suggestion is copy-paste the existing article to your computer, learn Wikipedia's rules, then in six months maybe after the article gets deleted, you'll know how to float one which meets Wikipedia's standards? One of the rules to learn is that every business, or every distiller, deserves some kind of article because it is a distiller, or because other distilleries have articles. My guess is not all distilleries have articles about them.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:28, 18 December 2014 (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.