Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Champion of the Thames

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The result of the debate was No Consensus. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 04:52, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

The Champion of the Thames
It doesn't have the history of the Eagle, nor does have the traditional interior of the Queen's Head in Newton. Maybe the entry can go next door to Wikitravel, but it doesn't belong here. Pilatus 15:13, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Quasipalm 15:51, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep HoratioVitero 16:28, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with Pubs in Cambridge or somewhere. Kappa 17:32, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The comic novel Porterhouse Blue is great fun - I recommend it. But being obliquely referenced in one novel doesn't make the pub notable to me. --Finbarr Saunders 17:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The initial editor of that article thanks you warmly! (And you know I'm biased on Cambridge pubs so I'm staying out of it). Alf 19:28, 29 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete Another nn pub. Dottore So 17:47, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, has a literary mention, and we should keep or merge it anyway. Trollderella 17:53, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. It's dark and grisly inside too. -Splash 19:36, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT a pub guide. --TimPope 19:52, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Again with the Cambridge! I kind of liked the Champion, nice crowd. But a mention in Porterhouse Blue (a veritable orgy of Cambridge in-jokes) is not quite enough for notability, IMO. If the article were enlarged to establish some history and context for its notability, then I'll change my vote. Sdedeo 20:10, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, worth it if only for the explanation of the name. Old pub's in the UK have wonderful names which almost assert notability by themselves.  If you had a pub named after you, you were famous. Hiding  talk 21:46, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd rather put the Boat Race connection into the article on the Boat Race. The pub itself is a nasty indiscriminate undergraduate watering hole for the kids from Jesus. Pilatus 14:37, 30 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete per nominator. Groeck 22:25, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Jachin 22:31, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep per Hiding --195.92.168.175 00:06, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - the article is poor as it is, but it probably has encyclopedic potential. What about a photo? See also Village pump (policy). Bovlb 05:33:02, 2005-08-30 (UTC)
 * Strong delete, yet again another nn pub. Zoe 07:52, August 30, 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.