Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Paramount Ballroom


 * 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. The concensus is that significant coverage at independent sources is lacking, so no evidence of notability as Wikipedia defines it --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 08:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

The Paramount Ballroom

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Delete No evidence of notability. Most of the references are not independent sources, and I can see no evidence of substantial coverage in independent sources. (Note: Speedy deletion was declined with edit summary "decline speedy deletion, buildings do not qualify for A7". This depends on interpreting the article strictly as being about the premises, rather than about the company which runs the ballroom.) JamesBWatson (talk) 12:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete; I can't find significant coverage for this company. Joe Chill (talk) 21:30, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. It it is also SPAM. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 08:19, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - While there are several mentions of this ballroom on Google and the information in the article seems verifiable, there hasn't been any article written about the Ballroom or the company going in depth. Using the "Dancing with the Stars" television episode can be used as a valid reference, but that isn't what is being cited here nor is it apparent that the episode really had much to do with the ballroom either; to talk about its instructors, its history, or its cultural value that would make it notable and novel in some way.  That is what is being asked, and by itself a lone ballroom (even a company that manages that ballroom) isn't notable even if the person who happens to operate that ballroom may be notable in their own right.  "Substantial coverage" seems to be a significant problem here.  --Robert Horning (talk) 18:50, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Wolgan (talk) 04:25, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I have listed a link to two news articles and a video report by WPTV-TV on how Paramount Ballroom is making a difference in the community.


 * I have looked very carefully through all of the changes made by Wolgan to the article since this AfD was started. I cannot see any addition of a "link to two news articles", though Wolgan has made numerous minor changes to existing references, mostly merely changing the reference formatting without changing their content. As for the video, for some reason I don't get any sound on it, but it lasts almost exactly 2 minutes, and does not look like very extensive coverage. Wolgan has also, however, added some promotional language to the article, such as "Alec Lazo through the ballroom made world-class dance lessons affordable for college students who would not be able to otherwise afford lessons". JamesBWatson (talk) 10:51, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep I saw in the references two links that were (3 and 6) WPTV news articles, and 7 was a video story done by News Channel 5. 6 seems to be a broken link, but I have read the article in the past. Also, I played the video, and the sound played just fine. As far as Wolgan's "promotional language," Alec Lazo is a US champion who has traveled judging dance competitions across the globe for over 30 years, so "world class" isn't a very exaggerated adjective at all. I have read on the PBA website about Lazo's college program, and Lazo teaches these students only $5 per lesson, which given his experience, would be several hundred dollars normally. He has also sponsored several students and given free lessons. Aside from the tone, which could seem promotional, that sentence was a fact, and it describes the sort of "charity work" that Paramount Ballroom is doing for the local community. To improve the tone, I rewrote the sentence with "professional" instead of "world class." Jax3llington (talk) 22:01, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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