Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rita's Water Ice (2nd nomination)


 * 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   no consensus.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 01:06, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

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Virtually no independent reliable sources. Prior deletion via AfD, but unsure that this is substantially similar. No indication of notability. Unable to find sufficient sources. SummerPhD (talk) 17:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Fixing malformed AfD: this was originally pointed at "Rita's Water Ice (2nd nomination)". DitzyNizzy (aka Jess) &#124; (talk to me) &#124; (What I've done)  19:56, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:19, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:19, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - a google search for "Rita's Italian Ice" brings up 926,000 results. I'm sure if you looked harder, you could find a few sources that are up to Wikipedia standards. The article needs proper sourcing, not deleting. ~  Baron Von Yiffington  . talk . contribs 00:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - I agree with the Baron. Rita's is very well-known chain with a lot of history, and that can be found in many reliable sources. Article simply needs improvement, not deletion, and the team is already at work. D OOMSDAYER 520  (Talk|Contribs) 01:20, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Yeah, I can Google too. However, I found a whole boatload of sites for individual Rita's stores, several business districts and malls that have Rita's in them and such. I found just two newspaper articles, both of them merely mentioning that Rita's had opened despite the snow (the rest of both articles were unrelated material about the snow slowing the city down). Saying there might be sources does not demonstrate that there should be an article. "If a topic has no reliable sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." - WP:RS - SummerPhD (talk) 03:11, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak delete Could only find one non-trivial, secondary coverage in Google News. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 19:48, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - I have substantially referenced the products section and wikified the remaining references. - Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 21:24, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Wikipedia is not Rita's menu. I removed most of that previously as trivial information. Sourcing various portions of the article to various publications by the company would remove disputes about the content, but does not address the lack of independent reliable sources to demonstrate notability. - SummerPhD (talk) 22:00, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm not familiar with them, since i'm on the west coast, but surely a chain with 500 franchises has to be a LITTLE bit notable! They do seem to make the news with their tradition of giving away freebies on the first day of spring and their Dog Days of Summer promotion. The purchase of Rita's by McKnight was noted many places, for example here, here, here and here. --MelanieN (talk) 23:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
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