Wikipedia:Notability (hotels)

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This page is hoping to establish some guidelines to determine notability criteria for hotels. You are encouraged to edit this proposal and to discuss your changes on the discussion page.

Many Wikipedians are wholly averse to the use of Wikipedia for advertising, and Wikipedia articles are not advertisements is an official policy of long standing. Advertising is either cleaned up to adhere to the neutral point of view or deleted. Precedents establish that hotels should, as a general rule, be listed at Wikitravel. There are of course exceptions to that rule since certain hotels have established notability that transcends their business.

[edit] Proposed Criteria for Hotels

A hotel should be considered notable if it verifiably meets any of the following criteria:

  1. The building has some architectural importance. (e.g. Grand Hotel Europe, Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel)
  2. The building is a recognizable landmark of its city. (e.g. Plaza Hotel, 2 Fevrier Sofitel Hotel in Togo)
  3. The hotel hosts or held a major and recurring international meeting such as a notable movie festival, a major golf tournament, an international conference of independent notability. (e.g. Gleneagles Hotel, Grandhotel Pupp)
  4. The hotel was the host of an event of historical importance. (e.g. Hôtel des Mille Collines in Rwanda)
  5. The hotel has a historic importance among hotels or very distinctive characteristic. (e.g. Martha Washington Hotel first hotel for women)
  6. The hotel is or was closely related to an event otherwise deemed notable, such as the death of a notable guest. (e.g. Hotel Astoria in Saint-Petersburg, Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Grand Hotel (Brighton).
  7. The hotel has a well-established history which has significant ties with the history of a city or a country. (e.g. Hotel Adlon, General Walker Hotel)
  8. The hotel has a well-established history and has been the subject or inspiration of non-trivial third party published works. (e.g. Hotel Oloffson)

Some hotels might still be deserving of a Wikipedia article even if they fail to meet the above criteria. Nevertheless, for hotels that fail to meet these, the following should not be used as sole indications of notability:

  1. Famous guests have stayed at the hotel.
  2. The hotel has a five-star rating.
  3. The hotel has a restaurant of local notoriety.
  4. The hotel is owned by a major hotel group.

[edit] Examples

Here are examples of that are notable under the above guidelines.

  • The Burj al-Arab is notable per criteria 1 and 2. It is one of the most recognizable buildings in Dubai. It is also the tallest building in the world used exclusively as a hotel and is represented in a large number of recent architecture books. However, the hotel's own description as the first 7-star hotel in the world should be considered irrelevant to its notability.
  • The Chelsea Hotel is notable per criteria 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8. The building was originally one of the tallest in New York City and it has well-documented ties with the artistic community in the city. It also served as inspiration for a number of books and songs. Sid Vicious allegedly murdered his girlfriend in this hotel.
  • The Chateau Frontenac is notable per criteria 1, 2 and 4. It is a symbol of Quebec City and one of the Chateau style hotels, a distinctive trend of Canadian architecture at the turn of the twentieth century. Chateau Frontenac also was the host of the Quebec Conference during World War II.
  • The Hotel Leningradskaya meets criteria 1 and 2 (as well as 7 and 8 but current articles does not make it apparent). It is one of the original Seven Sisters in Moscow.

For examples of hotel articles that have been removed after being nominated for deletion see for example the following archived discussions.

[edit] Further guidelines

Advertisement and other forms of spam in articles concerning hotels is and will continue to be a problem. For this reason, specific information concerning the number of rooms, the rates, the services provided to the guests, the quality of the food and so on should not appear in a hotel article unless that information is so unique that it is a central part of the notability of the hotel itself.

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