Talk:Stanley Furniture

Speedy deletion

Page was previously deleted as "blatant advertising." I've created a stub so there is a reasonable entry for this known/notable business. If someone makes it too much advertising-like again, then just keep the reverts coming. Dovid (talk) 18:04, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article nominated for speedy deletion. Contesting:

Stanley Furniture is notable for its connection to Thomas Bahnson Stanley and as being the basis for Stanleytown, essentially a former company town. It is also a well-known business in its own right, one of the shrinking number of significant American quality furniture manfacturers. The article should be expanded with more source material, rather than deleted. Further,sing the corporate notability guidelines, the Hoover's reference already in the article should disqualify it for speedy deletion. Dovid (talk) 01:42, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Issue closed

Cunard has accepted notability and removed SD, and additionally expanded the article. Dovid (talk) 19:34, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

Stanley Furniture has received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources including https://books.google.com/books?id=Lv4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&dq=%22Stanley+Furniture%22, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1993/08/09/what-the-analysts-say/48b450cf-5e9a-4630-8d01-0db4180ed240/ (which quotes from analyst reports which establish notability per Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Publicly traded corporations), https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121607028145352093, https://www.wsj.com/articles/bringing-jobs-back-to-u-s-is-bruising-task-1403746208, https://martinsvilledaily.com/2017/11/21/stanley-furniture-company-sells-out-to-vietnamese-group/, and http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/stanley-furniture-agrees-to-be-sold/article_98294192-7679-5653-9914-9e58f298a92f.html.

A very strong source is a case study at https://books.google.com/books?id=NStz_l3nJA4C&dq=%22Stanley+Furniture%22 published in the 1997 CRC Press book The Constraints Management Handbook. The case study is titled "Chapter 9: The Stanley Furniture Company, Stanleytown, Virginia" and spans pages 197–237.

The company clearly passes Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, so I will remove the {{Notability}} tag added recently. Cunard (talk) 01:25, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the links. I saw where you stated, "removed speedy, notability is asserted because this furniture manufacturer was founded by a notable individual", and want to clarify that notability is in no way inherited and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (organizations) is clear that sources still are the determining factor.

There are enough sources to satisfy me that the subject is notable. I would much rather see articles like this than Spokane Daily Chronicle that survived an AFD having one non-primary source out the 8 listed and an additional 4 "primary only" listed on the AFD, and it passed as notable. That is like a .083 on the notability factor scale meaning from a policies and guidelines point of view, no matter how many "keep" votes (that should be !votes) the article failed notability, and this is an example that WP:Primary, and other policies and guidelines such as Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not_(organizations)#Primary_sources) can mean nothing, so this article, to me, is fine. Otr500 (talk) 11:51, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That this furniture manufacturer was founded by a notable individual is an assertion of notability that prevents it from being speedy deleted under {{db-a7}}. But I agree that fact by itself is not sufficient for it to establish notability because notability is not inherited.

Cunard (talk) 23:14, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple issue tags

This is currently an unassessed stub-class article and as such will be lacking in content, will need expansion, and the layout is according to other articles, the manual of style, and even articles I have created. We do not need to advertise short-comings as a "wall of shame". If there is valid reasoning why some (or all) of the tags I removed should be replaced then this should be addressed on this talk page. If someone is wishing to contest the stub then the venue would be at AFD. Thank you, Otr500 (talk) 12:13, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Thank you for removing the tags. Cunard (talk) 23:15, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]