Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cook Out (restaurant)

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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The result was Speedy keep, withdrawn with consensus to keep. Non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 23:28, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cook Out (restaurant)

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Non-notable restaurant chain. No reliable sources to be seen when searching for "cook out" and various keywords ("cook out" + "Morris Reaves" turned up 8 pages). Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 15:39, 31 May 2008 (UTC) Speedy keep Geniice found some sources for me. Thanks a lot, sometimes more than one pair of eyes searching for sources can help. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 23:28, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep. I'm not exactly sure what makes a restaurant chain notable or encyclopedic in the first place, but I see no reason why Cookout should be excluded from the likes of Ruth's Chris Steak House or Taco Bell. Furthermore, I'm not sure what you expected to happen your search includes the common name for one of the most ubiquitous summer pastimes--jackass.--Apotheosis247 (talk) 01:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Why would you even consider deleting this? It exists. The page has been written. Let it stay.

This definitely deserves the right to exist. It's a legitimate and rapidly expanding fast food chain with excellent value. TWW 4 Life!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.26.67.37 (talk) 01:43, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

If you care that much about the deletion of information on the internet, maybe you need to get out of the house more often. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.145.224.126 (talk) 01:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

The restaurant is popular all over North Carolina. Ask any college student in Raleigh, and they'll give you tons of reasons why cookout is notable. There is absolutely no conceivable reason as to why this article should be deleted. TWW 4 lyfe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.135.17 (talk) 02:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

  • Conditional weak keep, not for the ridiculous reasons given by the IP above, but because some of the sources Pburka notes: some of them seem to be about the chain. I'm not about to pay for access to those articles, so my "keep" is conditional upon someone being able to get the sources and demonstrate notability for this chain. Until/unless we have someone with access to those pages, the article isn't verifiable, and therefore definitely isn't notable. Nyttend (talk) 02:19, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

I apologize for that. I just don't see any reason why it should be deleted - it is an institution all over North Carolina. Granted, it is a regional chain (few outside of NC have ever even heard of the establishment) and receives little commercial exposure on the Internet (they don't even have a website) - but this hardly merits its deletion.65.190.135.17 (talk) 02:35, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

  • Add sources and keep The stuff from the Google News search looks substantial to me; cherry pick some good ones and add them, and WP:N will be cured. Townlake (talk) 04:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. The ghits attest that it is a notable chain-restaurant in the North Carolina region. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 06:40, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Arrrrrgh... This is driving me nuts. There are clearly no reliable sources that give significant coverage to the chain. At least none that I see. And Google hits don't matter. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 23:17, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Sorry buddy, just take a look at the first hit in the link provided by User:Pburka. It's a The Charlotte Observer article about the 44th restaurant that opened under the Cook Out name. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 23:26, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Kill with a granite maul. No sauces, not notable. Ziggy Sawdust 23:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Moderate delete No sources, let alone reliable ones. On Google I can only find advert-like sites, and a couple such as this, but they don't show me anything notable about it. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
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