Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Medcan Clinic

Notability
I wanted to nominate this article for deletion last year. Sadly, I discovered that there exist at least two reliable sources which each provide a general overview of what Medcan does. (Maybe more: after discovering the second, I stopped looking.) The sources are:


 * National Post, Postmedia Network Inc., 26 March 2005, "An incredible body of work", Dan Bortolotti, FW3
 * Financial Post Magazine, Postmedia Network Inc., 2 February 2010, "Ounces of prevention", Joanna Pachner, http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/story.html?id=2513279

But wait. Is the National Post, a national newspaper, an acceptable source in this situation &mdash; despite the fact that it is published in the same city as Medcan? Or is it nothing but mere local coverage in such a situation? —Unforgettableid (talk) 00:07, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not really the multiple/high-quality weight of sourcing that would satisfy WP:GNG, and the local nature of the coverage does perhaps raise an independence question. Alexbrn talk 07:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)


 * If the claim in the "ounces" source above, that they are "North America’s largest health-management clinic", were sourced beyond an interview with the MD, this plus the local flu kerfuffle might well make it notable. Otherwise, I'm doubtful. Wiki CRUK John (talk) 15:04, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I just looked at WP:GNG again. The guideline says "a series of publications by the same author or in the same periodical is normally counted as one source". Oh. Well, the Financial Post magazine is actually part of the National Post: it's a once-monthly insert. I guess the sourcing I found so far is no good. —Unforgettableid (talk) 01:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

I searched more
Dear all,

I did a Google Canada search for [ medcan clinic ]. I skimmed through 10 pages of Google search results (which showed a total of 100 results). Here's what I found:


 * No SIGCOV.
 * I don't think I've ever heard of The Bulletin.ca before. Anyway, I'm not sure this article includes SIGCOV.
 * Not SIGCOV.

I then skimmed through all the Google Books search results for [ medcan clinic toronto ]. I didn't see anything which looked like it would contain SIGCOV.

The Toronto Public Library offers cardholders no-charge at-home access to the Gale Cengage Infotrac Newsstand database. I did a search. I found an article which appears both in the database and on Medcan's website. This article is:


 * Contains SIGCOV.

This article, I think, surely contains SIGCOV. It looks from the article like the reporter might have gotten a free executive checkup from Medcan. If so, I wonder if the reporter is truly independent.

Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 02:32, 20 August 2014 (UTC)