Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (2nd nomination)

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The result was Snow Keep. (non-admin closure) Dusti ^{*Let's talk!*} 20:00, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners[edit]

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This company no longer exists. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners was purchased by Kinder Morgan Inc. on Nov. 26 2014. A page for Kinder Morgan Inc. already exists. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners page is no longer valid. Saraloeff (talk) 20:30, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 December 4. —cyberbot I ^Notify_Online 20:41, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
'Comment But this company did exist. For an example, see Austin Motor Company. If Wikipedia were a directory, a non-current entity would be out of scope. However, it is an encyclopaedia, and past entities (or long out of fashion pop singers...) still have articles - because they WERE notable. If this company wasn't notable, it should go. If it was notable, then either this should stay as an article, or become a redirect after the relevant material is merged into the new owners' article. Peridon (talk) 20:50, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've corrected the links at the top. Peridon (talk) 20:50, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, as has been said, the fact that it doesn't exist independently anymore doesn't automatically make it non-notable. If it was notable before the restructuring it is notable now. I would be willing to consider a merge to the Kinder Morgan page. --Keithonearth (talk) 21:34, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Enron, Hitler and Alexander the Great don't exist any more either. St★lwart¹¹¹ 23:44, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, just because it doesn't exist anymore doesn't mean it's not notable. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 00:15, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, there are many articles on things that don't currently exist. Just because the company is no longer independently owned (as Keithonearth said above) doesn't mean that the company is no longer notable. -Fimatic (talk | contribs) 01:06, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:37, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:38, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:38, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per WP:NOTTEMPORARY. Tchaliburton (talk) 01:54, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This company earned its notability before it was purchased by Kinder Morgan Inc. on November 26, 2014. Per WP:NTEMP, notability is not temporary and the article should be kept. - tucoxn\^talk 02:45, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:NTEMP. VMS Mosaic (talk) 05:14, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - its stock was traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Bearian (talk) 22:40, 8 December 2014 (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.