Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Roo Motor Car Company

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The result was keep. and move, as noted and per evolving consensus. I will do so after I close. Star Mississippi 03:11, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Roo Motor Car Company[edit]

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afaict after a search through newspapers and books, i can't find any reasonable coverage to support including this article much less the content that is here. Nearly everything that I can actually find is just a repeat of our article, including books. SANTADICAE🎅 21:16, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:21, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:21, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: No sources cited. --Whiteguru (talk) 06:11, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and Move Here are quite a few potential sources, on a first quick scan sufficient it seems to support the statements in the article in regard to the company and the car. And to demonstrate coverage over two decades or so. Looks like insufficient BEFORE was done. I suggest though that the company is not notable. The notable subject is the car model called "Roo". The article should be moved to Roo (automobile) with a redirect retained. (And the article reworked accordingly.) Aoziwe (talk) 10:07, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I have added sourcing to the article using the Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring and Gilltraps' Australian Cars from 1879. These along with the good amount of news coverage from the time would constitute substantial coverage I think. I'm not sure about the name of the article. As it stands the article probably gives an undue amount of attention to Jeffkins' racing career. I think that a car which was not mass produced, and the company which was going to produce it, are ultimately a single subject so I don't think it makes much difference. That said, the name given by Macquarie for the company is Roo Motor Manufacturing Company while Gilltraps' give The Roo Motor Car Manufacturing Company so I'm not sure where the current title comes from. A7V2 (talk) 23:52, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
FEI:

Business and Company Records 1903-1922 Collection & Research | NSW State Archives
Name of Firm	Nature of Business	Place of Business	Person Carrying on Business	Date of Registration	Item No	Page No	File No
THE ROO MOTOR CAR MANUFACTURING COMPANY	Manufacture Motor Cars	337 Pitt Street Sydney	LAWSON, Thomas Craig; JEFFKINS, Rupert; FOULIS, William Bell	26 Jun 1917	[2/8546]	null	28746

Aoziwe (talk) 13:52, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 09:58, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Less Unless (talk) 13:06, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and move per Aoziwe. Deus et lex (talk) 00:30, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.