Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rakkasan Tea Company


 * 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. However, if someone would like the history to determine whether something is worth merging, just ask. Star  Mississippi  01:36, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Rakkasan Tea Company

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Fails WP:NCORP. Refs are routine business coverage, typically of a startup. Fails WP:ORGIND, WP:CORPDEPTH, WP:SIRS   scope_creep Talk  19:54, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge to Brandon Friedman, as the coverage seems to very much overlap and is more about that person than about this business. valereee (talk) 20:19, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink, Companies,  and Texas.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:43, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:38, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I contributed this article, so I'll go to bat for it. Only two of the references are about a "startup." The company is 5 years old and established in Dallas, so not really a startup anymore. In the time since it has been profiled in newspapers from the Dallas Morning News to the New York Times. One of the references is about a new product launch, nearly 5 years after the company's founding. Another reference is about quintupling sales over some years. I originally included references that made the article more about the business and less about the founders (like tea industry award nominations), but valereee deleted those as puffery. I'll leave it there. Nmd1978 (talk) 23:30, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Last point, I didn't think of this til after the fact. valereee seemed happy to edit this article (as anyone can see in the history) until I challenged her on the Brandon Friedman article. At that point she returned to this article, 16 days after her initial edits, and recommend it for deletion. That made me feel like she's non-neutral and vindictive. If the article was worthy of deletion, why was she editing sections of it more than two weeks ago? It seems really weird. Nmd1978 (talk) 02:44, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * She removed a large section of WP:PUFF, promotional content, designed to promte the company. Promotion is explicitly banned per the Wikipedia Terms of Use. It was me that sent the article for deletion as its crock.     scope_creep Talk  04:49, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * @Nmd1978, please take any accusations of wrongdoing on my part to WP:ANI. Here they're simply WP:personal attacks. valereee (talk) 13:57, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * 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.