Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paperback Rhino

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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 05:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paperback Rhino

Is this anything other than a Vanity article? There's nothing encyclopedic about it -- no dates of founding, no info about the founders (none of whom have Wikipedia entries), no dates or locations of significant performances. The mention of it in the Iowa article seems to be only a pretext to have this stub of an article. This group might be of interest to some University of Iowa students, but I see no evidence that it's known outside the undergrad student/improv comedy communities. BuckRose 02:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Small local theatre troop made up of college students from Iowa City. Not really notable enough for an encyclopedia. Zaxem 04:22, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. ---J.S (t|c) 05:56, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete No real hits per Yahoo! [1] besides Xanga, college sites, and unrelated pages for books. Based on article and Yahoo! search, no more noteable than other college acting groups. --Ataricodfish 06:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable group of improv actors.  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  06:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete not notable yet -- Samir (the scope) धर्म 06:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I was wondering if their web site might make a case, but even that has virtually nil info on it. Tyrenius 06:40, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity article, per nominator. JIP | Talk 08:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, nn. --Terence Ong 14:08, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. DarthVader 14:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete total nn vanity. --Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 15:45, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This is not a vanity page, but rather an entry to gather and spread the history of the group and how it works. The article is still in progress, information is added constantly as it becomes available. Further, the article meets the Wikipedia rules for admissibility: "three cardinal content policies (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia:Verifiability, and Wikipedia:No original research) and the copyright policy (Wikipedia:Copyrights)." The website gets new information every couple of days as well- news about the growth of the group and whatnot. The group has been invited to improv festivals and conferences across the country, as well as performances with other professional outfits (e.g. Comedy Sportz). Allow some time to flesh out the article. No reason to delete the entry. --Asquiar03 18:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - "composed of 11 freshmen and three sophomores" [2] sounds like it may not exist any more in a few years. 90 google results is not notable. Flammifer 18:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Small theaters are important. The number of theaters in small cities and small towns of the United States is shrinking and I think its important to acknowledge those that do exist and continue to exist. Piercetp 00:09, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
  • That's a good argument for creating an article about Riverside Theatre, Iowa City’s only resident professional non-profit theatre group, now celebrating its 25 year -- not for keeping this article. BuckRose 14:36, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
  • What's the difference between that theatre group and this one, Iowa City's only regularly performing improv group? Understandably, Paperback Rhino has not been around for 25 years, but everyone has to start somewhere. And the group has been around for 4 years, much longer than Flammifer predicted based on that 3 year old article he read. Paperback Rhino shows no signs of stopping either, as the group only continues to grow. --Asquiar03
  • Look at [3] and you may see a few differences. Permanent building, regular season, paid actors, Shakespeare theatre built in city park. I wish PB well, but it hasn't achieved significance yet.

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.