Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old Toronto Board of Trade Building

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. Please defer merge discussion to article talk. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:33, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Old Toronto Board of Trade Building[edit]

This article has been around for nearly a year without any content that demonstrates notability. Delete. BlueValour 23:06, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I improved the article and added a link to a page with a photo of the building. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 23:38, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete Absolutely no notability stated nor implied whatsoever. It was an insignificant city building which existed for 60 years and then was demolished. Nothing demonstrates that this building has any historical worth. The three external links are: 1) a page that merely states that the building existed, had 6 stories and was torn down; 2) a photo; and 3) a two-sentence mention at the bottom of an article about many buildings in the neiborhood in which this structure used to stand. The link within the article is to a biography of (apparently) the building's architect, who was non-notable. How does any of that qualify it for a Wikipedia article? -- Kicking222 23:57, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. At the time it was built, it was a prestige building, not an insignificant one. That's probably why it was designed by a non-Canadian architect. It's too bad that Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the Toronto Board of Trade, after which the building was named. It would have been the subject of considerable coverage during its construction and when it first opened, but I'm not prepared to look through old (1890s) Toronto newspapers on microfilm to get an exact citation. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 02:03, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Correction Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge was not a non-notable architecture firm (1886-1915). They designed, for example, the Chicago Public Library (1897) and other important buildings. See Emporis Buildings for a partial list. The founder of the firm has his own Wikipedia article, Henry Hobson Richardson. See also mention of the firm in the Greene and Greene, Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Castle Hill articles. Today the successor firm is know as Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott. Bejnar 17:39, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I agree that it needs more work. But it is a lot more notable than most of the ephemeral entertainment for which people cry notability. Bejnar 04:25, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Notability It is notable, inter alia, as Toronto's first skyscraper. Bejnar 21:24, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete The article's tiny, the building was demolished half a century ago, and a google search gets 33 hits, only two of which aren't related to the article. However, I agree with Bejnar as well. Ultra-Loser ^{Talk Comparison of BitTorrent sites} 06:30, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, see Wikipedia:Non-notability. arj 19:07, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per TruthbringerToronto and Bejnar. First skyscraper in Toronto is notable, and Toronto Board of Trade needs and article. AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 13:52, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Created Toronto Board of Trade article, though it could still use expansion. AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 14:46, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Toronto Board of Trade. Keeping separate is okay too. JYolkowski // talk 02:26, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment as creator of above article, I believe they should be kept separate. The TBoT existed both before and after the building; the building also housed another relatively important tenant; finally, the architecture of the building isn't really relevant to the TBoT itself. AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 12:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, it was Toronto's first skyscraper, definitely notable, though the building is demolished now. Toronto Board of Trade and its old HQ should be kept seperate as organisations and corporations headquarters are always kept in seperate articles. --Ter e nce Ong _{(T | C)} 08:32, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Toronto Board of Trade. Apparantly once an important building (first skyscraper in Toronto) but does not necessarily need an article by itself. // habj 22:49, 1 October 2006 (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.