Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1-800-PACK-RAT

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 delete. Sarah-Jane (talk) 13:12, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1-800-PACK-RAT

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. The problem is the usual: the company is a subject of a number of in-passing mentions, but there is no in-depth coverage outside press releases. This business exists, is doing well, and is even more socially responsible than on average - but nothing makes it encyclopedic. As I discussed in my Signpost Op-Ed, this is a good example of Yellow-Pages like company spam. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:59, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep 50 locations sounds like a fairly significant business, but surely "serving 240 million people" is an exaggeration, and the only cite for that claim is their own website (which is broken anyway). The page sounds like it has just been lifted from their own publicity - but to me the issue here is about notability not the content. If the content can be written in a more encyclopedic way including information about the business that people might actually want to read (turnover, staff numbers, say) from secondary sources, I'd say keep. JMWt (talk) 08:15, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:32, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for now as it seems more like a local company and I found no immediately convincingly better links. SwisterTwister talk 07:18, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:29, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. promotional and non-notable . DGG ( talk ) 16:47, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Non-admin assessment of consensus as Delete as not meeting WP:GNG and not a directory Legacypac (talk) 09:31, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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.