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Rock Island Auction Company

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Originally a highly promotional article, which has been edited to remove much of the more blatant promo issues. However, I still think there's a WP:CORPDEPTH issue because, despite the copious references, they are almost all articles about a famous/interesting weapon that is being auctioned, and give a passing mention to the auction company. The only exception are a couple of small articles in trade publications, which should be taken with a huge pinch of salt given the questionable independence. Overall, a lack of reliable, independent sources covering RIA in sufficient depth, so this is a WP:NORG and WP:GNG fail. Hug^syrup 10:00, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

• Keep There is plenty to build upon here and a quick search discovered many sources to establish notability. I will try and improve this as soon as I can.Luke Kindred (talk) 20:58, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

• Keep A good chunk of the references are blogs, shop blog and other non-RS junk and stuff like but it has very wide coverage passing WP:SIGCOV. Its needs slimmed right down, the promotional muck removed and a wee article with half a dozen ref's will emerged. scope_creep^Talk 22:54, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nosebagbear (talk) 11:37, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

• Keep per Scope Creep. Trust his research. Hyperbolick (talk) 14:09, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Firearms-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:58, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

• Delete. The current coverage is limited to mentions in passing, with only a 2-paragraph blog being about the company ([1]). I failed to find any in-depth coverage. There's a lot of mentions in passing, but they are generally one liners, quite a few are photo credits. I don't see anything that suggests SIGCOV or NCORP is met here. I will caution the closing admin that AfD is not a vote, and nobody voting keep has explicitly mentioned which references are good, all I see is just a sentiment that WP:THEREMUSTBESOURCES, and I will repeat that I just spent several minutes looking for them and failed to locate any. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:19, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
• Delete per Piotrus. I too couldn't finding any sources that were significant enough in coverage to meet WP:GNG or that would indicate the article met the criteria at WP:SIGCOV or WP:NCORP. There's a lot of trivial mentions in independent sources, but none where the organization itself is the primary subject. Those where the Rock Island Auction Company is the main subject are all closely related/promotional.4meter4 (talk) 13:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
• Delete - fails WP:ORG. The key points about sources is that they must be reliable, independent and have sufficient depth but I am not seeing that in the sources here. 2A02:C7F:4481:8300:90DC:E235:5074:54B0 (talk) 14:18, 23 September 2019 (UTC)