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 delete. Cirt (talk) 18:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oyster Bay Restaurant[edit]

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Non-notable New York City restaurant - even in a city with no shortage of famous eateries, this one isn't famous at all. The article's sole references relate to what happened to the property after the restaurant was shut down - a local real estate story with no encyclopedic value. Warrah (talk) 18:32, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete A local restaurant that shut down 70 years ago, and nobody seems to have taken any note of it since. Why did anyone even bother to write this article? --MelanieN (talk) 20:50, 19 December 2009 (UTC)MelanieN[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 02:39, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User:Robertg9, the creator of the article, left this note (presumably inadvertently) on the article's talk page:

Oyster Bay Restaurant was a highly frequented establishment for a period of four decades, 1900-1940, in Manhattan, New York City. The establishment was centered in the Times Square area. The history of the business and what happened to the property is important to the history of New York City. I plan to expand the article ASAP, utilizing additional references. There is a good possibility I will be able to find more about the antecedents to Oyster Bay Restaurant, specifically its history prior to the name change from Fay's Restaurant in 1900.--Robert (talk) 19:31, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

I'd say my own view is a weak delete. I've seen that the restaurant was mentioned in passing in a memoir here, and if its closing merited mention in the New York Times, that's something. I'm also generally an inclusionist on things more than a hundred years old that anyone cares to write about today. However, WP:CORP asks for "significant coverage in secondary sources," and unless more is pointed out I'm just not seeing that. --Glenfarclas (talk) 04:14, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:17, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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