Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samarqand Restaurant

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 - Trevj manages to present the strongest case with actual references that clearly show there has been some coverage. That makes it appear that the problem isn't notability, but one of editing. Had those been already included in the article, we likely wouldn't be here now, so it seems obvious that a keep is due. Perhaps someone will be graceful enough to add those. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 15:31, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Samarqand Restaurant[edit]

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Doesn't seem to be notable as a restaurant, not sourced, a quick search didn't show any reviews beyond yelp/tripadvisor Zeus^u|c 20:42, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as non-notable. No RS beyond reviews. PaintedCarpet (talk) 23:03, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:59, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: A Daily Mail article describes this restaurant as "trendy" and "a favourite of Russian oligarchs": [1] via Highbeam, subscription reqd. Not in itself evidence of encyclopaedic notability, but indicative of some attention. AllyD (talk) 06:59, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep and improve. Between AllyD's link (I don't have HighBeam access, so I can't look at it for myself) and this and this provide in-depth coverage, but their reliability is slightly sketchy (especially the second one). --Jakob (talk) (my editor review) 22:16, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep per WP:SIGCOV.[2][3][4][5][6] -- Trevj (talk · contribs) 12:56, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- RoySmith (talk) 22:22, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- A NN ethnic restaurant. If one substituted "Indian" there would be no doubt it was NN. There are probably relatively few of this ethnicity, but that does not make this BAD article worth keeping or improving. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:14, 6 June 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.