Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Garden Basket

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 DELETE. -Splash^talk 18:27, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Garden Basket

Non-notable grocery store; additionally, largely POV and unencylopedic. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 18:58, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom Bucketsofg 20:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Advertising. If the store is notable as an early supermarket, it doesn't say so. ProhibitOnions 21:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
• Do not Delete The store is not a mere blip, but rather a piece of history, especially in a society in which independant retailers struggle. To remove it would be to cause shame to Wikipedia, and all it claims to be about. Perhaps a clean up is in order to maintain the factual integrity, but certainly not removal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yerocdiamond (talk • contribs)
• Delete per nom. And to answer Yerocdiamond's objection, Wikipedia doesn't claim to be an indiscriminate list of in-jokes by "imaginative, pot-smoking youth". If it did, of course, deleting this article would be against what Wikipedia claims to be about. --Deville (Talk) 00:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn, advert, as well as babble. Ronabop 01:27, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 02:17, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
• Do not delete Comment Once more, the proposal of an article clean up is put forth. In the zeal to add to this article, many of the stores employees may have added to this, perhaps not all of it verifiable. To remove it would be to remove a fact from a compendium of knowledge which claims to be a reference to things that are factual. This storied grocery store has over 100 employees, and is of importance in a town of approx. 200 000 people. This site surely has space for something which so many people know about, especially if there is room for 10 pages of 'The Simpsons' related lists, quotations, which do not have the historical backdrop such a store does. This article is very easily salvageable, and it has a long list of potential contributors which could make it the gem it deserves to be. The wikipedia website makes allowances for local articles, and all of 'Local-interest articles. These are articles about places like schools, or streets that are of interest to a relatively small number of people such as alumni or people who live nearby. There is no consensus about such articles, but some will challenge them if they include nothing that shows how the place is special and different from tens of thousands of similar places. Photographs add interest. Try to give local-interest articles local colour. Third-party references are good!' has been considered and implemented if possible.(text in quotations taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article)—This unsigned comment was added by Yerocdiamond (talk • contribs) .
• Delete per above. If you think it is a notable grocery store then prove that. --James 03:31, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

• Do Not Delete this page; any traveler acquainted with Markham, Ontario, Canada can verify these facts about the (in)famous Garden Basket. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.212.67 (talk • contribs)
• Delete. If it had real historical/cultural significance, the article would be about that and not about what you're apt to find in the deli section. Cruft at best. --Icarus 08:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Icarus Sandstein 12:13, 1 April 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.