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 Natalie 22:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kodiak tobacco (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

POV issues, lack of citations, & disorganized content Old american century 08:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete A massive cleanup might save it, but it's not worth the bother. YechielMan 18:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Rewrite It's certainly a notable company, and I think it deserves an article. It should, however, be rewritten. It even appears there may be original research in there. If nobody else wants to, I would be willing to try rewriting it to give it another chance. --BennyD 23:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per YechielMan reasoningOo7565 21:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - being in bad shape is not valid grounds for deletion. Being in bad shape and unable to be fixed is valid grounds, but this one seems fairly easy, and considering the existence of similar article in better shape (Category:Tobacco companies of the United States) there is obviously editor interest in the topic. The copyvio of the CDC has to go, though. Lyrl ^Talk _C 22:33, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - I've cleaned it up a little bit. Lyrl ^Talk _C 22:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• delete per WP:RS--Sefringle 02:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Lyrl's cleanup and the 1,300 Google news results. Also, this should be under an alternate title. I will try to introduce some sources now. -- Black Falcon 20:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Some of the text was still a copyvio from another source. I have rewritten much of the article and have also added two references. I will also attempt to incorporate the CDC report as a reference. -- Black Falcon 20:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have added the CDC reference. The prevalence of information proves the subject's notability and we should keep this short, but sourced stub. The search "kodiak AND tobacco -wikipedia" yields 213 results in Google Scholar, 255 results in Google Books, 1280 results in Google News, and 115,000 results in a regular Google search. -- Black Falcon 21:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I just edited the article as well. Looks sooo much better, thanks for the help y'all. --old american century (oac) | Talk 21:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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