Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Métis Transit Limited

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. v/r - T P 23:27, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Métis Transit Limited

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There is no evidence at all of notability. The article gives no independent sources, and searching produces no significant coverage, most of what there is being on Wikipedia or Wikipedia mirrors. In fact, the best I have found is http://www.caledonontario.com/getting-around.html, which says "growing population prompted local resident Darren Parberry to start a trial bus service with two routes, called Métis Transit Limited, which ran briefly in 2006". The article was deleted following a PROD, with the reason given as "Defunct transit system. Googling for this transit company indicates that it barely ever existed at all. It is not clear how the single bus operated actually ran, but it can't have been more than a month. At current time, it lives on only in the form of the very broken website, and there does not appear to be any actual plans for it to resume operating. As it was almost non-existent from its conception, it isn't particularly notable or encyclopedic." The talk page says "Métis Transit was a very short lived and somewhat deluded attempt at running a transit service by its owner. It owned one bus and VERY briefly in 2006. It is now quite dead. The only reason the article does not reflect this is that the owner has edited it to reflect his own vies (see history)." The article has been undeleted following a request for undeletion by the user Metistransit (presumably with a conflict of interest). JamesBWatson (talk) 12:34, 14 June 2011 (UTC) JamesBWatson (talk) 12:34, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 12:27, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I added three references to articles in the Toronto Star. I don't have time right this second to integrate them into the article, but there was apparently a little coverage of this, anyway. --some jerk on the Internet (talk) 15:28, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Two of those sources is available online. One was written before the business started operating, and essentially what it says is that a person was hoping to set up a bus service, and predicted it would be very profitable. The other was opened a few days after the business opened. It tells us that the owner of the business says that "if he doesn’t drum up some passengers and soon his dream will die an early death". I am unable to find a copy of the other one ("Caledon Transit Service Plans Relaunch"), but what there is does little or nothing to establish notability. Essentially what we have is reports that someone tried to set up a bus service and failed. We have something like WP:ONEVENT, except that that is about "notable for only one event" whereas the "one event" in this case is not even notable. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:30, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The third article basically says service began with a single school bus in Jan. 2006, and ended in Feb. of the same year due to lack of ridership. It talks about attempts to raise capital, including an investment of undisclosed size by a charter bus service called Canada's Pride Transportation Services, and plans to operate with three actual transit buses. Aside from confirming the service did run very briefly, it probably doesn't do any better at establishing notability than the other two. Those three articles are all I was able to find. I leave it to others to interpret the information and reach consensus accordingly. I think my own judgement is too compromised to cast an actual !vote. --some jerk on the Internet (talk) 23:07, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, does not appear to be operating and if it ever did, it was only for a brief period of time. The company website does not show any current information, especially not about services or routes. PK T(alk) 21:45, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The Toronto Star articles might just count towards notability, but without coverage in a second reliable source, this fails WP:ORG. I tried looking, and found only hits about an unrelated company thousands of miles away. Alzarian16 (talk) 15:18, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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