Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Platinum Triangle, Los Angeles


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The result was   keep. v/r - TP 02:55, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Platinum Triangle, Los Angeles

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No sources except mirrors of the WP article. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/results.html?st=advanced&QryTxt=platinum+triangle&x=63&y=8&type=current&sortby=RELEVANCE&datetype=0&frommonth=01&fromday=01&fromyear=1985&tomonth=10&today=19&toyear=2013&By=&Title=&at_curr=ALL&Sect=ALL. This appellation is heard or seen nowhere else except in Wikipedia. GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:44, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:14, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Comment Just varying the search criteria slightly - - seems to show a lot of sources. The term certainly seems to be colloquial rather than official, but there seem to be sources going back at least twenty years. PWilkinson (talk) 14:56, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Riposte An examination of these works will find that they quoted from or stemmed from the Wikipedia article. GeorgeLouis (talk) 03:22, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * That's nonsense. Many of the books and news articles found date from before the creation of the Wikipedia article. Phil Bridger (talk) 07:07, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your kind word. I did not find that to be the case, but I am glad you double-checked for us. If you are so set against the deletion, I would not insist on it, although others might. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 20:25, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Why don't you just look at the book and news sources that PWilkinson linked and explain why you think that those with publication dates before 2007 "quoted from or stemmed from the Wikipedia article" rather than just say that you did not find that any of them date from before the Wikipedia article. I'm not "so set against the deletion" but based my comment on the evidence, which you have totally misrepresented. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:34, 21 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BusterD (talk) 23:36, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

 
 * Keep I found multiple news sources, some from reliable national sources like USA Today, that support the article's definition of a wealthy neighborhood centered around Beverly Hills.   There is also a book about the neighborhood called Unreal Estate. BTW GeorgeLouis, it's behind a paywall, but this article from the Los Angeles Times included the sentence "Brokers say the sheik is already scouting the so-called "Platinum Triangle" of Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills and Bel-Air" - in 1989! I think that disproves your "based on Wikipedia" theory. If the article is kept I will undertake to improve the references. --MelanieN (talk) 00:40, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 02:25, 4 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep per MelanieN. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 16:26, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
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