Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hotel de la Plage

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 05:30, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hotel de la Plage

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fauks WP:GNG. sources merely confirm existence. coverage mainly reveals another hotel of the same name in France. although a rename of this article won't solve it as I don't see standalone notability. LibStar (talk) 06:33, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Fails WP:NCORP. Articles only sources appear to be travel guides or booking websites. Ajf773 (talk) 20:12, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a simple business listing complete with the natural signs of only focused PR. SwisterTwister talk 02:10, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Could not find any relevant coverage in any news databases. AbstractIllusions (talk) 16:01, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Seems like a major hotel in the country of Benin, like say The Plaza or the Waldorf-Astoria in the U.S., but hmm Cotonou is the seat of government, so it would be the equivalent of a major Washington D.C. hotel. At worst, this should be merged/redirected to List of hotels in Benin, it certainly should not be deleted outright. There is no hotel of this name in France as far as I can tell. Perhaps the nominator is confused by some French language citations to a fictional hotel in the fictional city of Balbec, modeled on French city of Cabourg, in Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time. Also there was a film about a fictional-i-think hotel in Brittany, English title Holiday Hotel. When searching, add "Benin" to "Hotel de la Plage". The hotel is mentioned in 5-6 Google Scholar citations (articles or books not on the subject of the hotel itself, but seeming to indicate in context that it is a major hotel). More references would be found in French language (Benin was a French colony) or in Fon or in Yoruba. This nomination and !votes seem knee-jerk, uninformed to me. --do ncr am 01:53, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please post a source with some substance about the hotel. I based my vote on searches in LexisNexis, Newsbank, Proquest, and a search through the archives of QlM (biggest newspaper in Benin, by the way). Couldn't find anything substantive. So if you are so informed, please post the substantive source you've found.(By the way, I searched ABP after your comment and they don't have anything either. So that is the two major national-level news sources with no substance on the hotel.) Please post source and I'd be happy to change my vote--but with the lack of any substance in your 'vote', I find it hard to revise my "knee-jerk" vote. AbstractIllusions (talk) 04:17, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And just to clarify: "There is no hotel of this name in France" is absurdly wrong. Here's one, and another, and another, and another, and another, and here's one in Cambodia or Madagascar. (There's even a disco song about one in Beverly Hills) It almost seems like "Beach Hotel" would be a popular name for lots of hotels in lots of places... AbstractIllusions (talk) 15:22, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

yes my search found a hotel in France. Agree with abstract illusions. There is no way my nomination is knee jerk. In fact doncram's arguments are knee jerk and non convincing. Using the weak "seems a major hotel and therefore is notable ". Seems major is not the same as notable. LibStar (talk) 16:08, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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