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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) —UY Scuti ^Talk 19:44, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This cheese is only made by one company (which is the only link on the article) and a quick check on google reveals it is not notable as it has coverage only from the businesses it supplies. ツStacey (talk) 21:19, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep As a single producer cheese which hasn't been made for a few years, this is not an important article. However some rudimentary web searching shows that the online cheese press (yes, it turns out that's a thing) discussed it and reviewed it substantially enough to meet our WP:N standards. We judge notability on the basis of attention paid, not the inherent significance of it. This is one of the somewhat surprising cases that result. Andy Dingley (talk) 01:03, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Dingley can you please add that as a reference to the article. If this article is going to be kept I hope we can improve it to have more information and references. Thanks for your research - I would have probably looked over the cheese press websites thinking they were a joke! ツStacey (talk) 10:43, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:51, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:51, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - This award winning cheese,[[1]] one of the most expensive in America[[2]] and favourite of Mark Hix[[3]], probably deserves an article.--Ykraps (talk) 16:53, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I added two of Ykraps' cites to the article and changed it to read in the past tense, since the cheese is no longer made by it principal producer, Denhay, which continues to make other cheeses and bacon. Interesting note in one reference (The Cheeseboard, which I suppose is part of Andy Dingley's "cheese press"), that there is an export cheese being sold under the Dorset Drum name, but it is reportedly not the same cheese. That might explain why a cheese of that name seems to be available through igourmet.com, Ykrap's 3rd citation. I didn't add that reference as it seems to be an online retailer and not a reliable source. Since notability is not temporary, the fact that the producer ceased making the cheese and that the stocks of maturing cheese were nearing exhaustion in 2013 is not determinate for purposes of this debate. There is enough to satisfy WP:GNG. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 17:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• keep, per above, also seems to have coverage in independent books. It may also be a good idea to just merge this into a "List of cheeses" or something of the sort.--Prisencolin (talk) 03:34, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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