Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/War Telephone


 * 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. As Eggishorn points out, moving the article does not solve the problem of lacking sources (WP:V).  Sandstein  15:21, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

War Telephone

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Fails to meet WP:INDEPENDENT, WP:MULTSOURCES and WP:CORPDEPTH. Asketbouncer (talk) 17:09, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:25, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:25, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment. While the particular iteration of the company may not meet CORPDEPTH, its likely the historic War Telephone Company does. With a bit of work looking through historic newspaper archives to source the content, the article could probably be salvaged by simply moving the article to War Telephone Company and making the historic company the primary subject and the current company as a secondary mention in the article. A google books search yielded several Us Congressional reports and FCC reports involving that company from the 1940s through 1980s. Best.4meter4 (talk) 18:22, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   07:59, 9 September 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  12:48, 16 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Move to War Telephone Company - seems sensible and there doesn't seem to be any objections.  St ★ lwart 1 1 1 14:34, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence of significant coverage in reliable, independent sources in the article or searches, not surprisingly for a single-county utility subdivision. I don't see how renaming addresses the almost complete lack of sources. Eggishorn  (talk) (contrib) 18:55, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


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