Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dsquared²

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 merge to Dean and Dan Caten. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dsquared²[edit]

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Delete: as blatant advertising/promotionalism. Quis separabit? 04:06, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fashion-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:46, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:46, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:23, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Note also that a previous version of this article was deleted recently, and another copy (in Italian) at Dsquared was created and deleted in 2005. Another version was created there in 2006, and since 2008 has redirected to Dean and Dan Caten (which has some poor references that need to be pruned). Mind matrix 22:37, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep or at least redirect~~ Merge to Dean and Dan Caten - this is certainly a quite major/high profile brand/company. At the moment, I am completely burned out on article editing/creation, or I might try to salvage it. There are certainly lots of potential sources. For example, there's really quite extensive and substantial commentary here in this book of academic/peer-reviewed essays, citing a number of other sources for their findings, which is a good indicator that the subject passes Wikipedia notability. There is also substantial coverage across a wide range of genre publications, and the firm has been responsible for a number of high-profile productions, such as tours for Beyonce and the 2016 Olympics outfits for Team Canada. That last article also links to a couple of very interesting articles about the company/designer's use of inappropriate terminology the previous year: [1]; [2]. There does seem to be plenty of international coverage and sources out there for the finding. Mabalu (talk) 11:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:55, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Dean and Dan Caten. While Mabalu does demonstrate that there's stronger coverage out there to support notability much better than this article currently does as written, I remain unconvinced that we need to maintain two separate articles about "Dsquared" and "Dean and Dan Caten" as separate topics from each other — particularly given that the "BLP" is mostly about their work as Dsquared anyway. They should be merged as one article. Bearcat (talk) 18:44, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I definitely support the merge proposal and have edited my comment accordingly. Mabalu (talk) 11:15, 16 January 2017 (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.