Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lyon's

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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 Keep. -- Longhair\talk 10:16, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lyon's

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Lack of notability and written as advert. Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 16:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment Appears to have enough sources to satisfy notability Yngvarr (t) (c) 16:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Question - Do adverts usually describe in detail a company's bankruptcy record? --Oakshade 17:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Appears notable, per coverage by independent reliable sources. Nothing particularly spammy about the article. -Chunky Rice 17:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete: Not notable and little chance for expansion. - Rjd0060 17:14, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I'm not seeing where it fails to meet WP:CORP. There are are a number of sources, full articles about the business. A franchise that at one time had 72 locations seems like a notable business. If there are advert problems (none jumped out at me) they should be able to be cleared up with editing, not deletion.Cube lurker 17:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, sourced article on a formerly important regional chain. Notability is permanent, seems like notability was met and is still. --Dhartung | Talk 18:08, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, not the most significant topic in the world, but a $100m subsidiary of a public company is definitely notable. So Lyon's was notable, and thus is notable, even if the current corporate entity probably wouldn't satisfy WP:NOT on its own. I've sorted out the article, eliminated the bits that did seem like WP:ADVERT for some franchisees' new businesses, cleaned up the references etc. I'm assuming that Nation's Restaurant News is a respectable source in the foodservice world, it looks OK? The one query I have would be about the current company, it looks like they've lost a number of franchisees and I couldn't find anything that looked like a corporate website - anyone? FlagSteward 12:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Nation's Restaurant News is a very reliable hospitality industry source, thanks for working on the article. I posted this as per an individual that added it on the WikiProject Food and Drink. I think it is better to do an AFD post than a general deletion discussion as this becomes more notable and people like yourself can see this and get to work on convincing people of its notability.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 19:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
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.