Topic on User talk:MisterSynergy

Hello,

can you restore Q42308292. I see it was deleted. It's for a media company headquarted in Hamilton, Ontario.

Done.

Please make sure that it fulfills one of the criteria at Wikidata:Notability. It would otherwise soon be deleted again.

I will. There is a photo of it on WikiCommons that I can link it too, I will just need some time. Thanks!

IP70, the item is still not notable. You need at least one of:

• a Wikipedia sitelink (or another valid sitelink)
• an external identifier to a database with authority control (i.e. no social media handles, etc)
• proper use in other items

If you can’t show that this item is about a notable entity, I will delete it again within the next days. There is already discussion at Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q42308292 because other editors also think that this company is not notable for Wikidata.

Can you further explain "an external identifier to a database with authority control"

Sure.

There is the “Identifiers” section on item pages which lists claims of properties with external-id datatype. Some of them refer to external databases that are maintained by an external authority, and I want to see one of such identifiers including substantial information about this company on the linked page. However, social media pages (such as the Twitter handle) do not indicate notability.

have deleted the item again after there was no improvement wrt. the notability criteria.