Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Tarlton Theatre

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The result was redirect to Green Bay, Wisconsin#Arts and culture. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:50, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Tarlton Theatre[edit]

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Article about a local theatre, created by its own owner in a clear conflict of interest and not properly demonstrating any strong claim to encyclopedic significance. As written, this essentially just demonstrates that the theatre exists, and fails to show a credible reason why its existence would be noteworthy -- for instance, it uses the word "historic" in the introduction, but fails to actually document any actual historic significance beyond the building's age. And for sources, there are two local news articles about the page creator's acquisition of the building, one local news article which happens to mention this theatre in passing as the venue where the current mayor happened to hold his victory party but is not about this theatre, and a mere listing in a property directory. So only two of the footnotes are actually helping to establish its notability at all, which is not enough coverage to claim that it would pass WP:GNG in lieu of actually having to show any significance. As always, Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform for every owner of a local business to promote his own endeavours -- to be notable enough for inclusion, this theatre would have to show a lot more coverage and some evidence of actual significance, not just minimal verification that it exists. Bearcat (talk) 16:13, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Theatre-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:13, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wisconsin-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:13, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Nothing in the article indicates that this is a notable theatre. -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:55, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Green Bay, Wisconsin#Arts and culture: From the history section, the building does not seem to have any historic, social, economic, or architectural significance beyond "has existed for a long time". Querying with "The Tarlton Theatre" -wikipedia does not yield sources that meets NBUILDING as most sources do not cover the subject directly. GNG is not met as well due to not having enough significant coverage.
Redirect per ATD-R. ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 04:14, 31 March 2021 (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.