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291:- The club closed in 2010, but it was a major social institution in Tacoma beginning in 1930, with many prominent members. A stub tag should be added and the article further tagged for development, but there's no cause to delete it. 399:. The closure of the club isn't relevant, lots of notable things aren't around anymore. But the fact that the article doesn't even try to assert notability is telling. It probably should have been speedy deleted, in fact. 165: 438:
for the Seattle area is enough to turn up many notable members. The article should be tagged appropriately, but kept because the club was one of the most prominent gentlemen's clubs in the US in its day.
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from a charity fund-raiser held at the club. Gives more than just a passing mention to the club, though is obviously written to promo the event and should be considered to be at least partially
338:. It's a passing reference (mentioned in a list) but is perhaps useful for confirming the location and prominence of the subject as an "anchor tenant", if we can establish notability. 120: 213: 159: 353:
My concern is that there is still not a great deal there in terms of history for the subject. Everything I can find is essentially a passing reference, eg.
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Yes, I understand that; my point was in relation to venues - the sort of venue is irrelevant. I'm sure the club appeared in many directories but
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from Unico Properties. Obviously not independent (is from the club's landlord), so not great for notability against
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but I'm not sure the above will be enough. I'm probably now on the fence and have changed by position above to
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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479: 374: 325: 271: 331: 435: 345: 153: 400: 341: 540: 396: 335: 311: 292: 517: 509: 475: 219: 197: 114: 310:- Okay, so taking the above into account, I had another look in the interests of 471: 267: 504:- not all social clubs are notable, and this one would not become notable 259:. That said, having done a search, I can't find anything to suggest it 478:. If we had some then we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. 468:"was one of the most prominent gentlemen's clubs in the US in its day" 560:
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
314:. There's not a lot but there are a couple that might be usable: 470:. But like everything else on Knowledge that claim needs to be 535:
per above and nom, not notable. It should also be noted that
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notability from its members. I'm happy for you to claim it,
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