Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Haddock Corporation

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. Salvio ^giuliano 13:04, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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May or may not be a big fish in the Wichita pond, but not in the big world. Sources don't satisfy WP:COMPANY. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:42, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies and Kansas. Shellwood (talk) 14:00, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete; couldn't find any deeper coverage in Google Search/Books. And I agree the current sources don't satisfy the notability criteria. DFlhb (talk) 14:31, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, a search brought up only directory listings and social media. The Wichita Business Journal is a very small newspaper, so they probably do not have proper editorial oversight. Changing my vote to Keep per the sources found by DigitalIceAge below, excellent work by them in expanding the article! The newspapers cited are clearly established enough to be reliable, and the coverage looks sufficient to pass WP:CORPDEPTH, making this company notable. Devonian Wombat (talk) 06:32, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  As it turns out, Wichita is and has been Koch Industries headquarters and all that liquidity helped give Wichita and the well-respected Wichita Business Journal (a part of American City Business Journals), an outsized footprint in an otherwise low-key Kansas IT market. BusterD (talk) 22:54, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as mildly involved page creator. Backstory: There's a minor (and not proud) part of my early editing history related to Apple retail. As an employee of Tekserve, I noticed an article on the subject had been created by a ex-coworker (acting purely on their own), which I shepherded after it was nominated for deletion. I fully disclosed my association during the AfD and in both my RfA discussions. For the record, this was in an era largely without the now ubiquitous Apple Store, when significant independent retail/repair firms were rare (and I was young and carefree). Thinking I might create some category structure in which such an article might reside, I created this article, Small Dog Electronics, Nabih's Inc., and Apple Specialist (a main article for the category which included notable Apple-associated computer repair/retailers). Haddock, Tekserve, and Small Dog are still around in some form, but the other two articles cover organizations which seem to no longer exist. Tekserve successfully passed at AfD (and sufficient sources are already present to more fully develop the page). Small Dog is a well-respected computer business which encourages its employees to bring their dogs to work, so right up Wikipedia's alley (and potentially improvable material), so long as sources exist. The other three don't really pass notability by much if at all. BusterD (talk) 22:35, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Impressive additions. Keep per WP:HEY. BusterD (talk) 04:05, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi @BusterD: I have expanded the article quite a bit, unearthing more information about the store's locations outside of Kansas. Would you perhaps reconsider your !Delete? DigitalIceAge (talk) 02:04, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: I have prodded Nabih's Inc. myself. BusterD (talk) 00:30, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: The Haddock Computer Center is not only local to Kansas; they had stores in Iowa and Oklahoma. I have found two other articles discussing the franchise in depth: One in The Des Moines Register from 2013 and the other in a syndicated article from 2006 (paywalled link). Wichita Business Journal is a long-running paper publication with an editorial board. I plan on expanding the article from these two new sources. I would suggest renaming the article to Haddock Computer Center as that franchise is the real notable part of the Haddock Corporation. The store is defunct, and they've established an education tech reseller channel in its place, which has no claim to notability, unlike the store. DigitalIceAge (talk) 01:00, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Now expanded. Pinging Clarityfiend, DFlhb, Devonian Wombat. DigitalIceAge (talk) 02:05, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Sources added during this AfD show notability of the article subject. Pavlor (talk) 10:20, 25 January 2023 (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.