Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toolstop


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 21:10, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Toolstop

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Still no actual substance for convincing independent notability, I still my confirm my PROD. SwisterTwister  talk  03:21, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions.  SwisterTwister   talk  03:22, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:29, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:21, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - created by COI account for promotional purposes. Lacks in-depth coverage in a multitude of reliable secondary sources. Most references are just brief mentions. Citobun (talk) 10:30, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep or Wait One of the citations is an independent article about Toolstop. The company does have a long history, and there could be more out there to be found with some solid searches. Metaphorical analysis (talk) 13:29, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The article notes: "Over the past five years, Toolstop has become Scotland's largest distributor of professional hand and power tools including brands such as Bosch, Dewalt, Makita, Hitachi, Stanley, Bahco, Irwin, Monument, Draper, Sealey and Ridgid."  The article notes: "Having launched its first online offering, branded as Toolstop, just 18 months before, many of the firm's 20 staff were sceptical. But the company, which previously generated 90 per cent of its business through accounts with companies within a 25-mile radius of its Lanarkshire headquarters, saw the bad debt as a wake-up call to expand the business. ... Until that point, Toolstop's staff had been working as two separate entities – a handful on the internet business and the rest on the traditional accounts. ... TOOLSTOP is a subsidiary of Noel Kegg, which was established in 1965 to supply hand tools and ironmongery to local businesses. The company moved into its current premises – a 22,000sqft warehouse in Lanarkshire, in 1974. The sales website toolstop.co.uk was launched in May 2007, but the company only began to focus on online sales at the end of last year."  The article notes: "Toolstop, formerly Noel Kegg, a long-established Hamilton-based tool supply company based in a former working man's hostel, has become the poster child for the extraordinary potential of the e-commerce sector to transform the Scottish economy. Calum Kegg, who has transformed the business founded as a 'wee shop in Bellshill' in 1965, took time out from fulfilling a groaning order-book, and the non-stop ringing of the cyber-till, to talk to the Sunday Herald, in the middle of a pre-Christmas rush when the firm was selling GBP30,.000 worth of industrial tools and DIY supplies a week. The growth rate that this represents is jaw-dropping, especially as the customers are located in over 30 different countries, and, the amount of Bosch power tools that the firm sells to Germany makes it the stuff of coals-to-Newcastle legend. Kegg's father was a successful supplier to mainly Lanarkshire tradesmen. At its pre-web peak, the business turned over a healthy GBP2 million, with a staff of around 10 people." There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Toolstop to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 02:52, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. The coverage shown shows shows the lack of significance. Based on their contents, these supposedly reliable newspapers can npot be trusted as RSs for notability, if they give coverage to businessws of this extremely minor nature.  DGG ( talk ) 05:12, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete -- coverage offered at this AfD is either trivial or local, and insufficient to meet GNG and CORPDEPTH. K.e.coffman (talk) 08:09, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - a promo piece overall and only a trivia story at best. Does not meet CORPDEPTH. Kierzek (talk) 14:23, 28 August 2016 (UTC)


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