Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nashville Brewing Company

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 keep. Default keep as the consensus is not a delete. Could be a merge or similar, but that can be discussed on the talkpage. Tone 16:40, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nashville Brewing Company

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Promotion for non notable business. The original Nashville Brewing Company is covered at Gerst Brewing Company and is not this new brewing business that doesn't brew. Outside of local the new one lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. This article is bombarded with sources they are largely about the old brewery. Otherwise it's local, listings passing mention, primary. This article, created by Smertie is about a business owned by a similarly named S Mertie and largely draws on a book written by S Mertie and promotes that book and the actions of S Mertie. duffbeerforme (talk) 08:08, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 08:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 08:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 08:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Article does appear to be promotional (listing a dozen minor brewing awards does not impart notability). Rockphed (talk) 14:36, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:RS. A quick WP:BEFORE search turns up multiple sources which denote notability. If the article has a promotional tone, it can be reqworked however WP:NOTCLEANUP. Wm335td (talk) 19:37, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Hi Wm335td, can you link to a couple of sources that you believe meet the criteria for establishing notability as per WP:NCORP? HighKing⁺⁺ 20:30, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:19, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Move to William Gerst Brewing Company - The issue here appears to be that the article is both about the old Nashville Brewing Company, known as the Gerst Brewery or William Gerst Brewing Company (which appears notable based on the following references: 1 2 3), and about the new one which does not appear to be so (all I see are drive-by references). The common name for the old brewery seems to have been "William Gerst Brewing Company" based on the above sources. The promo stuff about the new brewery can be dealt with through a simple copy-edit. FOARP (talk) 07:25, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

FOARP. The old one is already covered at Gerst Brewing Company. duffbeerforme (talk) 13:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks duffbeerforme, not sure how I failed to read that you had already covered that point but am happy to switch to Redirect to Gerst Brewing Company on that basis. FOARP (talk) 14:40, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

~~Redirect~~ because the newest company doesn't seem to pass corpdepth. I removed the mirrored content that should have just stayed at Gerst Brewing Company to start since it isn't much, also moved the photographs that weren't already there. Only thing left to check before a redirect or creation of a disambiguation page is the bolded names in the introduction, which could be useful moved over to the introduction of the Gerst page. Also am hesitant about the copyright of the photography for Nashville Brewery. It claims the trademark of the old one, and yet the new company is claiming ownership as well, on the Wikipedia page. New logo, or false copyright claim? Unsure. 198.255.228.27 (talk) 18:14, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and create disambiguation page, despite the residual scent of advertising. I tried to separate the articles so the page is now focused just on the new one, and with fresh eyes, it looks like there is some nice press from quasi-statewide/national publications, enough to not make me hesitate at throwing it in the incinerator too quickly at least. From a forgiving standpoint, I think corpdepth might be met. 198.255.228.27 (talk) 23:36, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Which sources do you think are good for GNG? duffbeerforme (talk) 11:21, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Soft redirect or Merge to Gerst Brewing Company per above comments and WP:CORPDEPTH and WP:Notability. If redirect is selected, closer must ensure that prose in this article that is useful is copied to the assuming article (Gerst). Doug Mehus (talk) 17:33, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Joe (talk) 14:50, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Gerst Brewing Company. All non-local sources cited refer to the old brewing company; the new one does not meet GNG/CORPDEPTH for a standalone article. Probably worth a short paragraph on the old brewery's article, though. -- Scott Burley (talk) 16:29, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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