Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Donning Company

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The result was merge to Walsworth Publishing Company. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:52, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

The Donning Company

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Non-notable publishing company Mooonswimmer 14:26, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Comics and animation, Companies, and Missouri. Shellwood (talk) 15:14, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
• Comment. Significant coverage about The Donning Company exists in the academic journal The Public Historian (1983 article titled "The Emergence of a Genre: The Urban Pictorial History"). Additional coverage is required to establish notability, but this is not a straightforward !delete. Will update on any further findings. Cielquiparle (talk) 11:29, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lord Roem ~ (talk) 16:20, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Linguist111 (talk) 17:21, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

• Merge to Walsworth Publishing Company. Ive looked for 45 minutes, and most of the results are short mentions such as photos or history.`~HelpingWorld~` ^(👽🛸) 05:14, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
• Merge as suggested. Easy way out. Bearian (talk) 20:36, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
• Merge is fine. In searching for additional coverage (beyond the article via JSTOR), I found a LOT of newspaper articles on Newspapers.com that fit the same pattern: NEW LOCAL HISTORY BOOK is now available about OUR TOWN, published by THE DONNING COMPANY which approached OUR LOCAL HISTORIAN to compile a BOOK with BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS. "Wow, working with The Donning Company was great!" said LOCAL AUTHOR. The Donning Company did X, Y, and Z, and took care of ABCDEF. So the publisher had a nice formula for publicity about its books and itself, which wasn't nothing but also didn't seem entirely independent. A merge is a good solution. Cielquiparle (talk) 00:33, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.