Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timmins Chamber of Commerce


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The result was Delete. Randykitty (talk) 13:00, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Timmins Chamber of Commerce

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Generic, run of the mill chamber of commerce in a small city (pop 41K), with no particularly strong claim of actual notability. As written, this is dancing on the edge of an outright WP:NOTADVERT violation — original author User:Timminschamber, go ahead and guess how surprised I'm not — and the "sourcing" consists almost entirely of ten separate repetitions of the same link to a single "timeline" article in the local newspaper which lists such edge-of-your-seat accomplishments as "chamber protests gas prices", "chamber sponsors tourism seminars" and "first Santa parade". Chambers of commerce exist in virtually every city and do pretty much the same things everywhere, so they can't be extended an automatic presumption of notability just for existing — you've got to make some pretty distinctive claims of significance, and source them well enough to pass WP:GNG, to get a city's local chamber of commerce over the notability bar in an encyclopedia, and those things haven't happened here. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 02:42, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete - couldn't agree more with the nominator. Commercial collectives like this need to meet WP:ORGDEPTH / WP:CORPDEPTH and that requires significant coverage from beyond the group's immediate geographic area. I don't think this meets our inclusion criteria on that basis.  St ★ lwart 1 1 1 06:36, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Looks like an autobiography, except for a company. (I don't know the company equivalent.) Could be speedied under G11, since the major contributor is from the place in question. I've let the user know that the username does not comply with the username policy, even though they haven't got an edit since 2010. Aerospeed (Talk) 20:24, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Needs more reliable sourcing than mentions in a small local paper. Also reads like an advertisement, which is probably is, in essence. Nwlaw63 (talk) 01:59, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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