Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lettieri

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The result was nomination withdrawn as a viable redirect target has been located. Bearcat (talk) 18:48, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lettieri

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Completely unsourced article about a local café chain with no strong claim of notability per WP:CORP. It seems I'm actually the original creator here, at a time (2008) when Wikipedia's inclusion and sourcing standards were a lot more loosey-goosey than they are now (yes, you actually could once get away with "as long as the topic has a website") — but I largely forgot about it, not even realizing that it was originally my work, until it was tagged for notability and referencing a few minutes ago. So I just did a ProQuest search to see if it could be upgraded, and found that while Lettieri gets namechecked a lot, it isn't the subject of any significant reliable source coverage. I found one article in that database which verifies anything more than the fact that the chain exists — and that article isn't actually about Lettieri, but simply features a brief soundbite quote from Lettieri's founder about newfound competition from the actual subject of the article, Starbucks. And that's just not enough. In my defense, this was a legitimate article under the standards that applied at the time — but the standards have changed, and it's neither adequate nor improvable now. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 18:29, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm the one who just tagged it. I saw you created it and I thought I'd tag it so you (or someone else) would have the chance to improve it before bringing it to AfD. I did do a little searching before adding the tag and I saw some coverage for when its Yorkville location was closed (e.g., [1] [2] [3]). It doesn't look like there's much else so I'm not sure this article can ever be expanded. FuriouslySerene (talk) 18:40, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, basically what happened to this chain is that instead of actually pursuing the expansion plan that I wrote about at the time, the guy turned his attention instead to launching a new hamburger chain — which was much more successful, much more WP:GNGable, and actually (I only just now checked) has an article at Hero Certified Burgers. So on second thought, I'm actually going to withdraw this nomination and just redirect this article to that one since Lettieri is already briefly mentioned in it. Bearcat (talk) 18:48, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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