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The result was keep. KTC (talk) 00:19, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Maine Cottage[edit]

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Previous AFD, which I closed, suffered from very light participation and a badly flawed nomination. I am not finding any evidence that this is a particularly notable company. Sources that were included before have been removed, but they were pretty thin anyway as they mostly covered the closure of the company, apparently now re-opened under new management and trying to scrub their image by making spammy edits to this article and removing all mention of the troubles of the past. While that is a problem that can be fixed, the lack of notability is not. An argument was made at the last AFD that all claims of notability stemmed from those troubles, making this an entity primarily known for one isolated event, an event that was frankly not all that notable either. A furniture store going out of business is not exactly a vital encyclopedic topic and the lack of any other claim to notability (outside of the blatantly promotional claims I,have been removing from the article) means we probably should not have an article on this subject at all. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:53, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:58, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Cheers, Riley 00:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maine-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:42, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:08, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran (t • c) 03:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: Having reinvented the wheel by rediscovering the (snippet-view) Business Week article mentioned in the previous AfD, I am convinced that the subject is notable; the very tone of casual references to the company's founders implies that the company is well known to both the writer and the target readership. (See, for example, the ref I added for Carol Bass.) הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 05:08, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Has reliable sources here, here and here(Look at how many responses it garnered). Definitely notable. Someone must have purchased a faulty product (kidding) PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 04:57, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per investigations by fellow Wikipedians above. SarahStierch (talk) 22:26, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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