Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quaker City Mercantile


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The result was keep. – bradv  🍁  04:30, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Quaker City Mercantile

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Fails WP:GNG\WP:CORPDEPTH. Promotional, too. Kleuske (talk) 01:29, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
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Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The book notes, "And in 2008, working on behalf of the Sailor Jerry 'lifestyle' brand of rum and apparel, Gyro Advertising, a company profiled in detail in chapter 3, spent $100,000 to produce a full-length documentary, replete with oral histories and interviews about the brand's titular character, which then aired at film festivals across the country."   Rozansky, Michael L. (1993-02-22). "An ad agency with a new view: Three-year-old Gyro is making a name for itself as cutting edge. Some would say the edge cuts too deep" (pages 1 and 2). The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original (pages 1 and 2) on 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-04-07. </li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Quaker City Mercantile (formerly known as Gyro Advertising) to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 05:03, 7 April 2020 (UTC)</li></ul>
 * A book. No page, no section and hence it’s anybodies guess whether or not they are mentioned. If they are, it’s alongside a slew of other companies. A passing mention.
 * An interview with the owner, the company is not mentioned.
 * Another interview with the owner (not independent, not even about the company)
 * a newspaper clipping, about Gyro. But at least independent, by the looks of it.
 * churnalism
 * In short, this falls well short of WP:ORGIND. Kleuske (talk) 12:26, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment: I read the article and do not consider it promotional. Please explain how it is promotional so I can help remediate any issues. Cunard (talk) 05:03, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Seriously? Namedropping clients in the lede does not strike you as promotional? Kleuske (talk) 12:26, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep The article could use some tweaking but it certainly seems to meet notability requirements.IphisOfCrete (talk) 20:02, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * Comment Kleuske re: some of your comments, Cunard has already helpfully highlighted a passage from the book so you do not have to go to the trouble of searching for it yourself. The book also describes the agency in some depth on pages 68-69. The NYT ainterview does actually discuss the agency in-depth, in fact that is the "ad agency" mentioned in the article's title. The Philadelphia Inquirer interview mentions them extensively as well, although we might not count those because they are interviews. There is nothing wrong with the newspaper article or "clipping" from Philadelphia Inquirer either so that absolutely is a useful source. In addition to the sources found by Cunard I found these in a few minutes of Googling:


 * The are also mentioned here:

<li></li> IphisOfCrete (talk) 20:02, 7 April 2020 (UTC) <div class="xfd_relist" style="border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 25px;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:21, 15 April 2020 (UTC)


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