Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sock 'n' Buskin Theatre Company

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. Turnstep 00:18, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sock 'n' Buskin Theatre Company

Wikipedia isn't free web space and this article fails to tell us why it deserves an encyclopedic entry. Delete Ardenn 00:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - I think it's important enough to keep it, actually. It's not a commercial venture, which does sway my vote. - Richardcavell 00:20, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep as the article asserts that they may be the oldest student ran theatre company in north america, lets see if we can find a reference to this.Mike _{(T C)} 00:20, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - seem to be fairly notable. — ßottesiηi ^{Tell me what's up} 00:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Per nom. ILovEPlankton 01:46, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep - asserts some notability. Metamagician3000 01:56, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, the oldest student run theatre company is somewhat notable. --Terence Ong 03:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but only conditional on this assertion of first-ever being verified --Deville (Talk) 03:33, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

  Update:Going through all of the links, I can't find any link willing to back up this assertion except this group's website --Deville (Talk) 03:42, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete: mostly advertising; Wikipedia is not the village notice board. --die Baumfabrik 04:06, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per Deville’s update. (Unverifiable claim to notability being its only claim to notability.) —porges_(talk) 04:45, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per the above update (making the group lose all WP notability whatsoever), and because the page is still a big ad. -- Kicking222 05:49, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep - factual basis but a tad bit too commercial oriented, some slight editing could fix the article. -- Patman2648 06:45, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The group has actually been fairly influential in Ottawa theatre and has produced a few professional performers, Dan Ackroyd for example. Dhodges 06:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep not entirely notability, but article asserts some notability bdude - uwantit ^Talk_Cont. 07:43, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but the claim to be "the oldest student-run theatre company in North America" seems to be untrue, as we had an older one at Princeton University on AfD just recently (Theatre Intime). Maybe they are the oldest in continuous existence in Canada or something like that? u p p l a n d 07:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

  Comment Hm, that seems to tear it then. The assertion is simply false if the one for Theatre Intime is true --Deville (Talk) 16:11, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Notable enough, assuming the article is primarily true (i.e. the Dan Ackroyd part) Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Even if not the oldest in North America, if it can be shown it's one of the oldest, or the oldest in Canada, or something along those lines, then it's notable enough.  OZLAWYER  talk  17:19, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep only if evidence can be found from other sources of sufficient notability. Admittedly, it doesn't look like we're going to find that, currently. --Doug (talk) 20:58, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but add more encyclopaedic material and remove advertising content. Bluewave 16:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

  Comment There are numerous references to Dan Ackroyd being a member. Here's one from the horse's mouth, so to speak. NPR interview. As to the oldest continuous ref. , unless someone can come up with a verifiable source it'll have to go. --Dhodges 22:00, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep notability is present. -M^ask 22:12, 4 May 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.