Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mr. Rooter

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 keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. Rooter

Non-notable company (fails WP:CORP). Contested prod and remarkably similar (same editor, also part of the Dwyer Group) to the recently unanimously deleted Rainbow International --Pak21 08:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as nominator --Pak21 08:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Nearly Headless Nick 08:44, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Kalani ^[talk] 09:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, although page name passes WP:PORN -- GWO
  • What the hell does this have to do with porn. --CharlotteWebb 10:46, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
    • It's a joke. -- GWO
• Speedy Keep, second largest plumbing company in the U.S., 521,000 google hits [1]. --CharlotteWebb 10:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: all which but approximately 168 are basically ignored by Google (hopefully that link gives the same results for others...) for being "very similar to the 168 already displayed". I'm not as convinced as I was by its non-notability, but I'd like to see some verifiable evidence here. Cheers --Pak21 11:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Seems to meet WP:CORP as the second largest pluming company in the US. Google search turns up all kinds of mentions in business magazines. For example, "Mr. Rooter® Plumbing is the second largest full-service plumbing and drain cleaning company in the U.S. Recognized by Entrepreneur magazine among its “Franchise 500” and Franchise Times Top 200"[2]. --Ed (Edgar181) 12:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Heavily advertised on radio and television in the United States (those commercials with the annoying female home improvement expert saying stuff like "I'm a good plumber, but Mr. Rooter is an expert"). Notable via wp:corp (per citation given by Edgar181), but it needs cleanup and expansion for sure. I'm not sure if the Google test is the best fit here, since a chain of plumbers is not likely to have broken down the barriers of cyberspace quite yet. youngamerican (talk) 12:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment. I added the citation above and cut down some of the pov language. What is left should be a relatively workable stub. youngamerican (talk) 12:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per User:Edgar181. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Seems notable enough to stay after later clarification. Voice of Treason 13:47, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable company. 23skidoo 13:55, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable company with franchises around the world. Ben W Bell talk 14:50, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Reluctant keep. I see their damned commercials ten times a day. Notable enough, although it certainly needs cleanup and expansion to better assert notability. Kafziel 15:19, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Edgar181. Crystallina 15:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I see their trucks all over the place. If Roto-Rooter has an article, so should these people. Clearly notable. Fan1967 15:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to parent company The_Dwyer_Group. If the parent company's article gets too big, we can break it out then. --William Pietri 20:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above Carlossuarez46 00:42, 8 June 2006 (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.