Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New England Pest Control

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. Article was considerably improved. -- Y not? 22:25, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New England Pest Control

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Not significant, vanity section at the bottom, no citations. Adam850 06:18, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Whilst their Big Blue Bug is notable and adequately referenced, the company is not. Google News articles discuss the big bug ontop of their roof rather than the actual business below. Redirect Tony DeJesus having a spot on an AM talk show is also not notable. --Bren ^talk 06:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. Have you looked at the page after the recent revisions, adding citations to national and local media coverage of the company and the individual employees? The three delete votes were made prior to the addition of those citations. RogerWill 23:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Looking in Category:Pest control, I found exactly one other pest control company, and I PRODded it. This line of work is not notable, barring exceptinal circumstances which are not present here. YechielMan 10:15, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator, Yechiel, and BB. /Blaxthos 11:42, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The company as an individual entity is extremely well-known and notable (at least in Rhode Island and southeastern New England). RogerWill 00:14, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. Please keep in mind that Wikipedia cannot take one person's (or any number of people's) word for this company being notable without the provision of multiple, independent reliable sources to verify that it satisfies the notability requirement. Someguy1221 00:26, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Response. Apologies. What I should have said is, both local and national media have covered the company as a business separate from its mascot, indicating the company is individually notable.RogerWill 00:48, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. Looking for them now, I am unable to find anything but trivial mentions, advertisements, and discussion of the bug (only looked through the first ~40 ghits). All you (or anyone) has to do to make sure this article is kept is actually provide information on that media coverage. We could always turn this page into a redirect (and preserve the history) to Big Blue Bug as an indefinite solution until sources are provided. Someguy1221 01:06, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Response. I've added to the article several citations to media coverage of the company as a company, as well as an article profiling Tony DeJeusus specifically. That article doesn't mention the mascot expect to say that DeJesus joined the company before the mascot was created. RogerWill 01:13, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Keep now that we have refs that (claim to...would be useful to have some that are available on-line) support notability, so it's notable per WP:CORP. Strongly disagree with Yechiel: "company X that does Y is not notable and we have few/no other pages for companies that do Y, therefore company Z that does Y is not notable" is not sensible...the issue is the company Z itself not a page or category for task Y. DMacks 02:04, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Rhode Island-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 06:51, 25 June 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.