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Chaska Hawks Girls Basketball

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Article on a high school basketball team. GPL93 (talk) 17:20, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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List of Mitchell Hamline School of Law alumni

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Fails NLIST; not even long enough to be a spin-off from Mitchell Hamline School of Law ꧁Zanahary꧂ 15:37, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Law and Minnesota. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 15:37, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment from the creator. My intention was to preserve the work of other editors who had assembled a list that seemed too long for the Mitchell Hamline School of Law article that I didn't feel I could responsibly prune. If this is not an appropriate spin-off, then by all means restore. Or — better yet! – restore with some principled cuts: right now the only criterion appears to be having a WP article. Patrick 🐈‍⬛ (talk) 15:46, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  Thanks for your comment. I did a scan for sources discussing MHSL's alumni as a group, per NLIST, and found nothing. Without that, this doesn't appear to constitute an independently notable topic. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 15:51, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, fair enough. I find lists embedded in articles without clear inclusion-criteria and sourcing to be, in the majority of cases, unhelpful and unencyclopedic. Usually I can either fix this or give a principled justification for wholesale removal. This one was too long, though, and includes unsourced entries of people who do seem notable as alumni. But if you reaffirm that it's your policy-based view I should restore to the parent article, I will do so and request a speedy deletion of this stand-alone list. Cheers, --Patrick 🐈‍⬛ (talk) 16:02, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't want to unilaterally commandeer this content, especially now that it's listed at AfD. Let's see what others say. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 16:46, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep because I think it makes the Mitchell Hamline School of Law page unwieldy and too long if you add it there. Added by Dflovett.
Keep - lists are valid if every single entry has an article, and the main article has become unwieldy, as is the case here. Bearian (talk) 13:23, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ExpressJet Airlines Flight 2816

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WP:NOTNEWS. Point 4 of WP:EVENTCRITERIA - Routine kinds of news events (including most accidents) – whether or not tragic or widely reported at the time – are usually not notable. Zaptain United (talk) 21:11, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Aviation and Minnesota. Shellwood (talk) 21:47, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep I think this could meet point 4 by the fact that it was the first time that the Department of Transportation fined airlines for a ground delay, which was reported on specifically in several substantial outlets: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34127317 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-airlines-fined-in-minn-tarmac-stranding/ ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 22:13, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Nothingburger, maybe a mention in the incidents section of the airports page. Metallurgist (talk) 22:25, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hammel, Green and Abrahamson

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Lots of mentions and the usual industry listings. But I couldn't find any in-depth references from independent, reliable sources. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 16:07, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: The references in the existing articles are not reliable (please read WP:RS). Additionally, my WP:BEFORE search did not yield significant results, and I don’t believe the subject meets WP:NCORP criteria. Baqi:) (talk) 06:24, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I prodded this page in January, with the rationale "Nothing here to suggest that this firm might meet the requirements of WP:NCORP. The text is sourced almost entirely to its own publicity materials". It was deleted and then restored, but nothing in the page has changed. It gets a good number of passing mentions on JSTOR and on Scholar, but I don't see anything resembling in-depth coverage. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:24, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Justlettersandnumbers, @Onel5969, @Wcquidditch, and @Spiderone -- I am trying to suggest some edits on the talk page that remove promotional, first party sources and present secondary sources. I hope that you can review and provide some commentary on these as I continue to present additional sources and ideas. Thank you! Ethan Olkovikas of HGA's Digital Team (talk) 15:23, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ethan Olkovikas of HGA's Digital Team, most of the edits you've requested seem to be passing mentions or trivia. What fully-independent reliable sources with significant coverage addressing the subject of the article directly and in depth have you identified? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:57, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Justlettersandnumbers -- I have added a few more suggestions since this note, and will continue to do so. You said that /most/ of the edits are passing mentions, or trivial. Would you be able to identify which of those suggested to-date are least passing/trivial/most up-to-snuff? This would help my continued research and collection. Thank you very kindly! Ethan Olkovikas of HGA's Digital Team (talk) 14:12, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, Ethan Olkovikas of HGA's Digital Team, I just glanced at them – that's why I said "seem to be". You can read the requirements for reliable sources and significant coverage for notability of companies by following the blue links in my previous message. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:31, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you @Justlettersandnumbers. I have been familiarizing myself with those resources as of late. I have also been working to suggest edits to remove all first party sources/promotional content. Ethan Olkovikas of HGA's Digital Team (talk) 15:37, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

360 Communities

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No reliable sources, fails WP:GNG ProtobowlAddict ^talk! 15:40, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: I searched about the company using different search engines but couldn’t find much substantial information. Even among the existing articles, the first one is merely an interview, which is not considered reliable, and the second source is completely dead. Baqi:) (talk) 19:45, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: unable to find SIGCOV for the organization so far.Lorraine Crane (talk) 19:20, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: This was kept at AfD just over a year ago, so it would be good to have some explanation of why the previously identified sources aren't adequate.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 17:06, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per the above. Surayeproject3 (talk) 16:23, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus‎. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:12, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Kendall (filmmaker)

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I am unconvinced that either WP:CREATIVE or WP:BIO are met. The only remotely in-depth coverage in reliable sources I can find is in relation to his 2012 film La Camioneta, but nothing about any projects since then. Consequently I suggest we redirect to La Camioneta. SmartSE (talk) 16:43, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. WP:FILMMAKER #3 is met. --YCTEBK8108 (talk) 13:09, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Note This user is an SPA who is clearly not a new user, but who claims not be being paid to edit. The article was created by another SPA Johnysiemes (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and I came across it due to Sword1234 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) who was editing La Camioneta and involved in confirmed UPE at Draft:Gaurav Srivastava (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Previous versions of this article were created by the Josher8a sockfarm. SmartSE (talk) 09:49, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete He has one documentary under his belt (from 2012). It received positive reviews. However, there are no independent sources about him, and the documentary did not win major awards (the Wolper is a student award). He got one of ~170 Guggenheim grants and a Pew fellowship, but from what I can tell there is not a body of work even though it is alluded to in some blurbs. It is possible that the documentary might have enough sources, with articles in NY Times, LA Times, and Robert Ebert. Lamona (talk) 03:27, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:41, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep The documentary definitely seems notable, and I do think WP:DIRECTOR is basically met here, considering several of the articles about the documentary discuss Kendall's involvement. It's kind of borderline, but I do think the Guggenheim Fellowship is outside the scope of La Camioneta and indicates notability. hinnk (talk) 10:42, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep for bare notability based on the totality of the sources. I'm not saying this is a slam-dunk but it's acceptable. Bearian (talk) 23:21, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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