Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yankee Traders

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The result was keep. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:56, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yankee Traders[edit]

I do not believe this article meets wikipedia's notability guidelines as it seems to simply be a phrase used in one location to refer to American merchants and lacks sources. Geraldk (talk) 01:46, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Well referenced in history books like The California sea otter trade, 1784-1848 and many others. The article probably needs to be expanded to provide more context. -SpacemanSpiff (talk) 02:03, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep per Spacemanspiff. But there would need to be a BIG development of this including good sources for this article to avoid deletion.--The Legendary Sky Attacker 02:14, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. -- SpacemanSpiff (talk) 07:02, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but Merge or Rename-- this is an unsatisfactory stub, but could usefully be expanded (probably with a new name) into something like Trade of California before the gold rush. Richard Dana, Two years before the mast -- an account of his voyage from eastern USA to California in a ship that returned laden with cattle skins could usefully be cited. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:01, 17 June 2009 (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.