Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ConocoPhillips Alaska
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- 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 Speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn, no participants arguing for deletion. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:18, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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As an regional branch of ConocoPhilips, it is hard to see its notability without its parent company. If necessary, all information in this article may be covered by the parent company article. Beagel (talk) 09:10, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alaska-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:19, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:19, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- So you are actually proposing a merger, not a deletion? Beeblebrox (talk) 17:51, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Merging could be an alternative for deletion, of course. However, I am skeptical if the current content of this article is worth to merge into the parent article.Beagel (talk) 18:42, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The current state of the article is pretty sad, no doubt. However, it would be a mistake to dismiss this as "just a subdivision." Oil companies loom large in the economic and political fortunes of Alaska, as can be seen by these searches of Alaskan news sources [1] [2], the Anchorage Daily News search alone yielded 643 results. They are a major employer in the oil and gas research and development that goes on up here, and they (along with other oil and gas companies) also sponsor a lot of local events and organizations in order to remind us all of how much the state depends on the revenue they generate through oil and gas leases on public land, for example they donated 15 million dollars to the University of Alaska in 2008 [3]. It looks like this was created as a direct response to the president of the company and a co-worker being killed in an avalanche last week, but there is plenty more to say about them and plenty of good sources to base it on. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- If there are more sources specifically about ConocoPhillips Alaska, then it would be wonderful to expand the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I was thinking of doing just that, I just don't like doing it "under the gun" as it were. I was actually quite surprised to find that this was such a new article and contained so little substantive information, as they are in the news all the time in Alaska, including a story just this week [4]. I've been doing admin work almost exclusively for about six months now though, my content skills may be a bit rusty but I'll see what I can do. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:47, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I've significantly expanded the article and added multiple new refs, although there is a lot more to be said and the article is not sectioned and so forth, I think it's over the bar of WP:N at this point. If it's kept I'll clean it up and expand it some more. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I was thinking of doing just that, I just don't like doing it "under the gun" as it were. I was actually quite surprised to find that this was such a new article and contained so little substantive information, as they are in the news all the time in Alaska, including a story just this week [4]. I've been doing admin work almost exclusively for about six months now though, my content skills may be a bit rusty but I'll see what I can do. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:47, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- If there are more sources specifically about ConocoPhillips Alaska, then it would be wonderful to expand the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The current state of the article is pretty sad, no doubt. However, it would be a mistake to dismiss this as "just a subdivision." Oil companies loom large in the economic and political fortunes of Alaska, as can be seen by these searches of Alaskan news sources [1] [2], the Anchorage Daily News search alone yielded 643 results. They are a major employer in the oil and gas research and development that goes on up here, and they (along with other oil and gas companies) also sponsor a lot of local events and organizations in order to remind us all of how much the state depends on the revenue they generate through oil and gas leases on public land, for example they donated 15 million dollars to the University of Alaska in 2008 [3]. It looks like this was created as a direct response to the president of the company and a co-worker being killed in an avalanche last week, but there is plenty more to say about them and plenty of good sources to base it on. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw my nomination. The article has improved significantly. Beagel (talk) 04:55, 25 February 2010 (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.