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The result was delete. There was a lot of debate about how to interpret WP:SIGCOV and WP:SIRS. Ultimately a clear majority came down in favor of the position that considered the coverage lacked significance, due to various combinations of being brief, in local outlets, or about routine matters. A few participants supported merging to Pike Place Market as an alternative to deletion, but they were not able to build a consensus for that. RL0919 (talk) 21:21, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
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Brochure advertising article for generic doughnut shop. Fails WP:NCORP, WP:SIRS, WP:PROMO, WP:AUD. WP:DEL4, and WP:DEL14 scope_creepTalk 03:06, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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The Greatest Places to Eat in Seattle’s Greatest Tourist Trap Eater Jun 5, 2019 | ![]() |
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![]() The promise of hot mini doughnuts means a constant queue at Daily Dozen Doughnut Company in the Economy Market. It’s fun to watch the little pale blobs float along a river of hot oil in the automatic Donut Robot fryer, two by two — getting flipped halfway down the line — until they’re golden brown on both sides. Sharing a brown paper bag of sprinkle-topped or powdered sugar doughnuts with someone is cool, especially if the doughnuts are hot. Per WP:CORPDEPTH, this is an example of trivial coverage, i.e. |
✘ No |
Seattle's Best Donut Shops Thrillist Feb 8, 2016 | ![]() |
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![]() All day long inside a tiny stall in the heart of the always-teeming Pike Place Market miniature rings of dough are plucked from a bath of hot oil by an aging Donut Robot (Mark II!) and served almost immediately, still hot and deliciously greasy. Sure, they only come in four flavors -- plain, tossed in sugar or cinnamon, and chocolate-sprinkled -- but they are so good you'll want at least... wait for it... a dozen! Per WP:CORPDEPTH, this is an example of trivial coverage, i.e. |
✘ No |
Delightful Doughnuts in the Seattle Area Eater Seattle Sep 23, 2022 | ![]() |
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![]() Right in the center of Pike Place Market is the iconic Daily Dozen Doughnut Company, slinger of mini doughnuts fresh out of the onsite fryer. Market shoppers lured by the ubiquitous smells of fried, sugary dough form long lines to wait for a bag of these doughnuts. Grab a half or full dozen of powdered, plain or rotating seasonal specials while they’re hot. Per WP:CORPDEPTH, this is an example of trivial coverage, i.e. |
✘ No |
Fodor's Seattle [1] | ![]() |
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![]() If you're visiting Pikes Place Market, Daily Dozen Donuts has adorable, made-while-you-watch minidonuts dusted in powdered sugar. • Comment by EEng: (This one's especially interesting because it doesn't even suggest you go out of your way, but if you happen to be visiting Pikes Place anyway, well then sure, since you're already there...) |
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Hole-y-grail: A taste of Seattle’s best doughnut shops, Sunset Sept 22, 2004 | ![]() |
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![]() Owner Barbara Elza started making doughnuts at this lively stand in Pike Place Market 15 years ago, and she fell in love with the job. “It’s a big family here,” she says. “We know how to have fun.” Locals and visitors have a great time watching the “Donut Robot” ― a machine invented in the 1930s―turn out fresh, hot miniature doughnuts in plain, sugar, and cinnamon-sugar. The frosted “fancies” tend to disappear quickly. “Kids are stronger than you think,” Elza says. “They can really muscle their way to the front.” Per WP:CORPDEPTH, this is an example of trivial coverage, i.e. |
✘ No |
Serious Eats [2] by Ed Levine | ![]() |
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? Reads in its entirety: While much of Seattle may have a soft spot for Top Pot Doughnuts, with locations all over the city, we prefer this little Pike Place Market stall. Sure, you can get fresh doughtnuts at plenty of shops --- but at Daily Dozen, mini doughnuts are actually plucked from the Donut Robot II conveyor belt. (That may mean a little more oil, but we won't complain.) Tossed into a brown paper bag with sugar, sprinkles, or cinnamon,, they're handed over the counter. They're so hot that when you bite one open, steam pours from its interior. Moist, squishy, crunchy with sugar -- the little guys tend to disappear before you've even walked to the next stall. (Skip the frosted ones. Straight up sugar is where it's at. • ![]()
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A market full of fresh experiences, Vancouver Sun Sept 16, 1997 | ![]() |
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![]() It's home to such venerable establishments as the Daily Dozen Doughnut Co., where owner Barbara Elza processes 16 kilograms of flour daily in her doughnut robot. Children crowd round Elza's booth to watch as the tiny doughnuts travel along an oily road in rows of four before plopping down at their destinations -- a tin display plate. |
✘ No |
Seattle's best doughnuts, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Apr 11, 2016 | ![]() |
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![]() The famous Pike Place Market post is a family affair that serves up miniature doughnuts to countless tourists and the locals who know to flock to this gem. |
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The Stranger | ![]() |
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![]() To mark to occasion, Daily Dozen Doughnut Company is giving away free doughnuts and hot beverages to the first 115 people who stop by their special tent in Pike Place Market on Wednesday, August 17. |
✘ No |
Seattle Weekly | ![]() |
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![]() In such a paradise, Daily Dozen Doughnut Company in Pike Place Market (93 Pike Place, 467-7769) would be trumpeted as the essential snack of the Emerald City. The hot, freshly made little gems are so deceptively nonthreatening and bite-sized that you tend to eat them like popcorn, which, in the ugly real world, can be the cause of a disturbing revelation when you look down into your paper bag and realize you’ve mowed your way through 12 doughnuts without so much as a burp. Powdered, chocolate-iced, sprinkled, or—our favorite—plain and golden, the goodies are a steal at a couple of bucks per dozen. But don’t say we didn’t warn you. |
✘ No |
Bon Appétit america-s-best-donuts-part-2 by Andrew Knowlton | ![]() |
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![]() Note: Notable author Andrew Knowlton |
✘ No |
Pike Place Market Recipes [3] | ![]() |
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![]() If there's one pervasive morning smell in the Pike Place Market, it's cinnamon. The Daily Dozen Doughnut Company douses hot miniature fried orbs with cinnamon sugar, to the pure thrill of kids and adults alikeand After a bite (or six) at Daily Dozen Doughnut Company, the Economy Market stall that churns out piping-hot cinnamon-sugar mini doughnuts all morning, you'll get a quick tour of MarketSpice ... |
✘ No |
Report: Microsoft, Boeing stash money offshore to dodge tax bills, KOMO-TV Feb 6, 2013 | ![]() |
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![]() "This is cheating. When you misrepresent yourself, you're cheating," said Barbara Elza, owner of Daily Dozen Donut Company, a Pike Place Market mainstay for nearly 30 years. "I don't even have enough to meet my expenses this month, let alone stash something offshore." • Side comment by EEng: Putting this source in the article is cheating. When you misrepresent a source like this, as if it has anything at all to do with the subject of the article, it's cheating. |
✘ No |
The Donut: History, Recipes, and Lore from Boston to Berlin [4] | ![]() |
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![]() "In Seattle’s Pike Place Market, a tiny donut stand called Daily Dozen sells the freshest donuts you may ever buy.They drop down in a continuous stream from a Belshaw model little bigger than a toaster oven. They’re hot, greasy, and addictive."Page X adds this comment which seems more authentic: "check out the warm-from-the-fryer mini donuts sold at a little stand in the Pike Place Market (a little overhyped I decided after eating a half dozen of the plain and three or four of the bacon-topped variety"). |
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Food Lovers Guide to Seattle by Laurie Wolf | ![]() |
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![]() A doughnut shop that has been around for over 20 years and still has a line almost all day long, the charm of this place is in its simplicity: fresh, hot mini doughnuts served in a brown paper bag, heating the roof of your mouth on a chilly day, the aroma taunting you as you wait in line. The doughnuts come in dozens or half dozens. The flavors are plain, powdered, cinnamon, or sprinkled (chocolate fudge with sprinkles). The powdered sugar and sprinkled come cold, but the other two come hot. Note: Notable author Laurie Wolf |
✘ No |
100 Things to Do in Seattle Before You Die [5] | ![]() |
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![]() And don't forget to indulge snacky sweet cravings on the way out with minidonuts from the Daily Dozen Donut Company. But they're fun-sized, so go crazy with at least a half dozen. Better yet, make it a dozen, because when they're made in front of you, self-deprivation loses. And, they're cheap! |
✘ No |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Have you tried all 26 of these iconic Seattle bites? [6] | ![]() |
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![]() USA Today mentioned this place as a foodie stop in the Pike Place Market, affirming that hot doughnuts in a paper sack are sublime. |
✘ No |
Thrillist Daily Dozen Doughnut Co | ![]() |
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![]() Perfectly fried-up and crispy, the mini donuts at Daily Dozen are a famous staple of Pike Place Market and ensure you'll be anything but mini after you've made them part of your morning routine. |
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Where to Get Some Delightful Doughnuts for Takeout in the Seattle Area Eater Seattle Jul 8, 2020 | ![]() |
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![]() When one just won’t do, it’s easy enough to nab a whole sack of hot mini doughnuts pulled from bubbling oil by a vintage Doughnut Robot at this famous Pike Place Market stall. |
✘ No |
Our flag at the Market: Doughnut vendor ruffles feathers displaying pride banner Seattle Gay News Oct 26, 2012 | ![]() |
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? • Comment by EEng: Completely disagree that this is sigcov, which requires that sources address the topic directly and in detail. The only thing this article says about the subject of this article is: For 23 years Barbara Eliza has been serving up warm donuts at Seattle's biggest, busiest tourist spot, Pike Place Market. Her business, the Daily Dozen Doughnut Company, caters to locals and visitors alike, as well as other market vendors who open in the early morning.Period. Everything else is details of the flag dispute. If there was more coverage of the dispute, then it might be notable, but even then that doesn't make the firm notable 'cause, ya know, WP:NOTINHERITED. But anyway the dispute isn't notable either, apparently. • Comment by Another Believer: ![]() • Another comment by EEng: I cannot say that you are joking in writing that. I can only say that I hope you're joking.Comment by Cielquiparle: Completely disagree with the above. • ![]() EEng says: Unfortunate that you invoked NCORP, which specifically lists, under Examples of trivial coverage, coverage of purely local events, incidents, controversies. Oh well, try again. |
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The heart of Seattle: Pike Place Market brims with great food options Chicago Tribune, Aug 4 2013 | ![]() |
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? Reads in its entirety: You'll see many cameras pointing through the foggy glass here. They're all trained on the "doughtnut robot", a mesmerizing contraption that plots rings of batter into the oil. Watch as the batter morphs into doughnuts as travels down the oil river like the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland, flipped once, and again a minute later, golden and bulbous onto cooling racks If you get a batch of these mini doughnuts hot from the fryer, dusted with cinnamon sugar, bite in immediately and experience an act defying physical law -- fried dough collapsing unto itself, into nothing. • ![]() • User:EEng not approved -- the idea that this description of a machine found in every donut shop in the world constitutes significant coverage of this particular shop that owns one is preposterous • ![]() Strongly disagree with EEng. I will add this to the article now, but the point is, a key argument for notability is precisely this: That Daily Dozen Doughnut Company is one of the key examples of the classic early model Donut Machines, per at least two of the donut-focused books. EEng still not approved, and it's always amusing when sources are preposterously misrepresented It's not a "classic early model donut machine", but merely (as already mentioned) the manufacturer's current bestseller [7], and there's nothing to indicate that Daily Dozen is some "key example" -- above (as already mentioned) is the entirety of what the source says about the company. |
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Donuts by John T. Edge, pp. 30–35 | ![]() |
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? • ![]() • Above strained hyperbole thoroughly demolished below at #edge. |
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Pike Market merchants have theatrical flair The Gazette, co-author Monique Polak | ![]() |
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![]() Originally the stable for farmers horses, the Economy Market Building earned its name because it was the discount or day-old section of the market. Today, it's home to such venerable establishments as the Daily Dozen Doughnut Co., where owner Barbara Elza processes 35 pounds of flour daily in her doughnut robot. Children crowd round Elza's booth to watch as the tiny doughnuts travel along an oily road in rows of four before plopping down at their destination - a tin display plate.This is not WP:CORPDEPTH. Note: Notable co-author Monique Polak Per WP:CORPDEPTH, |
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No Pride At Pike Place Market The Stranger Blogs (Jun 24, 2009) | ![]() |
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Doughnuts + Punks = Love The Stranger (Feb 7, 2008) | ![]() |
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![]() departure of personnel, (e.g. "When spring hits Seattle, J-Sin will be one step closer to attaining his dream, and I'll be out of a seven-year crush") without significant coverage of the company. |
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In Seattle’s Pike Place Market, a tiny donut stand called Daily Dozen sells the freshest donuts you may ever buy.They drop down in a continuous stream from a Belshaw model little bigger than a toaster oven. They’re hot, greasy, and addictive.p. 72 Umimmak (talk) 10:25, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
outside the scope of Wikipedia editors to second-guess journalists for finding some things attention worthy and not others– It's not whether journalists have given attention, but the level of attention that counts. For example, the many, many, many sources adduced fail, almost to a one, multiple of WP:NCORP's requirement that reviews...
Be significant: brief and routine reviews (including Zagat) do not qualify. Significant reviews are where the author has personally experienced or tested the product and describes their experiences in some depth, provides broader context, and draws comparisons with other products. Reviews that narrowly focus on a particular product or function without broader context (e.g. review of a particular meal without description of the restaurant as a whole) do not count as significant sources. Reviews that are too generic or vague to make the determination whether the author had personal experience with the reviewed product are not to be counted as significant sources. Further, the reviews must be published outside of purely local or narrow (highly specialized) interest publications.
Examples of trivial coverage that do not count toward meeting the significant coverage requirement: of a capital transaction, such as raised capital. The Jesse Thomson books is by a Seattle food writer, which is ultra-local. The Microsoft ref, ref 25 is quote from the owner, fails WP:ORGIND. The Serious Eats is an exercise in promotion and breaks WP:PROMO. Its by a New York writer, but it is the most basic profile that is insignificant and fails WP:SIRS. I couldn't see the rest of them. Normally per WP:SIGCOV, lots of references add up, but here all the coverage, its a great doughnut bar, eat there and that is not enough. scope_creepTalk 20:51, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
You'll see many cameras pointing through the foggy glass here. They're all trained on the "doughtnut robot", a mesmerizing contraption that plots rings of batter into the oil. Watch as the batter morphs into doughnuts as travels down the oil river like the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland, flipped once, and again a minute later, golden and bulbous onto cooling racks If you get a batch of these mini doughnuts hot from the fryer, dusted with cinnamon sugar, bite in immediately and experience an act defying physical law -- fried dough collapsing unto itself, into nothing.– That's what you call a "particularly significant" review "from the perspective of food criticism"? Really???
home to such venerable establishments as the Daily Dozen Doughnut Co., where owner Barbara Elza processes 16 kilograms of flour daily in her doughnut robot. Children crowd round Elza's booth to watch as the tiny doughnuts travel along an oily road in rows of four before plopping down at their destinations -- a tin display plate.– Again, that's a "particularly significant" review "from the perspective of food criticism"? Are you kidding?
In Seattle’s Pike Place Market, a tiny donut stand called Daily Dozen sells the freshest donuts you may ever buy. They drop down in a continuous stream from a Belshaw model little bigger than a toaster oven. They’re hot, greasy, and addictive– That's significant coverage???
analysis of a company's history– The entirety of the company's history (visible in the article, anyway) is
Operated by Barbara Elza since c. 1989 ... Previously, the business was owned by Todd Collins ... In 1997, the shop was processing 16 kilograms of flour daily. (Very grand to call this "analysis", BTW.)
in-depth coverage of what the company does– The entirety of that in-depth coverage of what the company does is
serves small doughnuts from a stall in the Economy Market building at Pike Place Market in Seattle's Central Waterfront district. Varieties have included plain, cinnamon, sugar, and chocolate with sprinkles.
long-running dispute about displaying a gay pride banner– If you'd actually read the sources, you'd know that there's nothing long-running about it at all. For several years Elza displayed the flag during June in recognition of Pride Month, with no issue. Then one year she didn't take it down at the end of the month, after which the landlord, historical commission, and so on objected. There was some discussion between July and September, and in October Seattle Gay News carried an article about the issue, which was apparently resolved somehow -- but we don't know how since there's been no other coverage. That's not a "long-running dispute", but rather what WP:NCORP lists under Examples of trivial coverage as "coverage of purely local events, incidents, controversies".
prominent examples of a Donut Robot Mark II machine from Belshaw Brothers, produced in the 1930s, in operation and visible to the public– On reflection this is the most ridiculous of your claims. You seem to think the Donut Robot Mark II is some kind of amazing antique "produced in the 1930s". It's not. Its the manufacturer's most popular (and completely current) model, found in donut shops all over the world [11]. Here's a man from the 21st century (not the 1930s) showing how to use it [12]. As for "visible to the public", this is apparently common, since the manufacturer hype exclaims "With a Donut Robot you can make donuts in a back room, or in front of customers!"
The Stranger caught wind of the incident, and soon the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority was flooded with phone calls from outraged readers. As a result the flag stayed up.That's not "all hell broke loose".
After the Stranger story broke, she went back to the board to make her case for keeping [the flag] up, and there was little resistance.That's not "Elza had to negotiate the right to put the pride banner up for June each year".
Many millions of satisfied customers have seen the Little Orbits system in operation. It's what we call "action attraction". It's fun to eat mini-donuts, but it's also fun to watch them being made. It's important to always be operating the machine in front of your customers. The action and aroma bring them in.
Levitt's doughnut machine was the first sign that the doughnut, till then merely a taste sensation, could, in production, become a public spectacle. And so generations of kids like me, and adults, too, have stood transfixed by the Willy Wonka-like scene behind the glass of doughnut shops ...
Significant reviews are where the author has personally experienced or tested the product ... Reviews that are too generic or vague to make the determination whether the author had personal experience with the reviewed product are not to be counted as significant sources.EEng 06:25, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Seattle's Pike Place Market, there's
smells of frying dough and cinnamon, there are
bright lights above, the employee uses
metal tongs, snatching donuts from a glazing carousel connected to a conveyor belt cooker, there is
an espresso machine,
white paper bagscontain each customer's order of doughnuts, it has a
Donut Robot Mark II(and there's a bit about that, but this is an article about the Daily Dozen not the Donut Robot Mark II), and that the author views the Daily Dozen as a
market shebang.
one-man band who works the Daily Dozen stand, and information about how he wears his hair
keeps his black hair long and spiky, what bands he likes
he bops his head to the sounds of a favorite band—say local faves Hellshock or the irrepressible Dead Kennedys, what accessories he has
a studded dog collar around his neck and longer amulet-style studded collars on each wrist, what stickers are on his boombox
KEEP MUSIC EVIL, what instruments he owns
I got a drum kind, but I don't know what to do with it, his relationship status
and resumes a conversation with a friend. "Yeah, man, I'm engaged," he says., his plans for the wedding
"I love her. But I'm pretty sure whatever we do for a wedding won't be legal. We're talking about having a goat sacrifice at the ceremony.", but that's all kind of besides the point, but I have a much better picture of this one employee than the business as a whole.
While one can easily graze one's way through the Market food stalls and shops, the Pike Place Market offers numerous other eating (and drinking) options. The once endemic workingmen's and sailors' taverns are gone; at roughly opposite corners of the Market, the Virginia Inn (founded as Virginia Bar, approximately 1908; operated as a cardroom during Prohibition, then Virginia Inn; passed into current management 1980 and slowly gentrified) and Place Pigalle (originally Lotus Inn, name dates from 1950s, remodeled 1982) retain their names, but both have gone upmarket. The Athenian Inn in the Main Market traces its history back to a 1909 bakery and is a relatively ungentrified bar and restaurant. Three Girls Bakery dates back to 1912 and may have been the first Seattle business started by women. While it is not in its original Corner Market location, no longer bakes on premises, and its current owner Jack Levy is a man, it still sells a vast variety of baked goods, does a brisk business in takeaway sandwiches, and has an old-style lunch counter.For a different type of dining experience, The Pink Door (founded 1981), entered by a nearly unmarked door on upper Post Alley, is a favorite first-date restaurant, with solid Italian food, a fantasia of a dining room ...
Topping the list is Daily Dozen Doughnut, boasting 4.5 stars out of 883 reviews on Yelp. Located at 93 Pike St. (near First Avenue) in Pike Market, the bakery and food stand is the highest rated doughnut spot in Seattle. Enticing passers-by with the sweet smell of freshly baked and fried dough, Daily Dozen specializes in warm, bite-size doughnuts sprinkled with powdered sugar or cinnamon.
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Perhaps reevaluate your standards to align with Wikipedia's, as Wikipedia will not spontaneously align with yours.[26] EEng 20:13, 15 December 2022 (UTC) You sure like the word reevaluate a lot!
(←) You clearly didn't read what I wrote, and you're clearly just sticking around to call any support votes "butthurt", which seems to me a description of you.... Again, I've been involved in many quality articles that don't meet that one rule. One violation doesn't make this article unworthy of belonging on Wikipedia. Now kindly fuck off. ɱ (talk) 22:04, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
A topic is presumed to merit an article if:
- It meets either the general notability guideline (GNG) below, or the criteria outlined in a subject-specific notability guideline (SNG) listed in the box on the right; and
- It is not excluded under the What Wikipedia is not policy.
For this topic, we can apply the WP:NCORP guideline, which in the WP:ORGCRIT section says, The guideline, among other things, is meant to address some of the common issues with abusing Wikipedia for advertising and promotion.
From my view, NCORP helps us determine whether an article should be excluded as WP:PROMO, because without significant coverage of a company, there is a risk of creating promotional content instead of encyclopedic content, which is contrary to WP:NOT policy. Beccaynr (talk) 16:34, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
I haven't found many sources over 100 words, and even fewer over 200 words. But I've helped write FAs and GAs with as hodgepodged of sources, strewn [sic, strung?] together to form a cohesive narrative. For some businesses and for some historical topics, it's necessary, as there isn't a wholehearted focus on the subject until you get there. Does that make it any less important? I'd say no.