Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Axley Brynelson, LLP

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The result was Keep. Michig (talk) 07:34, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Axley Brynelson, LLP

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For a law firm founded that long ago, there's not much good coverage with my searches here, here, here and here. The article claims it was founded by Burr W. Jones and is Wisconsin's oldest firm but I'm not seeing anything to save this and at best, if possible, this can be mentioned at Burr Jones's article. SwisterTwister talk 04:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. — JJMC89 (T·E·C) 04:22, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wisconsin-related deletion discussions. — JJMC89 (T·E·C) 04:22, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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• Keep:, Seems notable in the context of Law firms in Wisconsin. In Business Madison has a full page on it for their 130 anniversary.[1][2] If you remove LLP from the search it does produce more hits in the links above. Their history page shows that they have had the current name, "Axley Brynelson" since 1988. "1885 [Burr] Jones partners with Francis J. Lamb to form Lamb & Jones."[3] Also per their history page, E. Ray Stevens, WI Supreme Court Justice was a former partner. I think part of the problem is that newspaper coverage of specialized professional fields like accounting and law firms is weak. There are a number of mentions via ebscohost and Wisconsin Law Journal (tags). I think that if we use simple internet searches, pretty much every article in Category:Law firms based in Wisconsin and sub cats will need to be deleted. Unless there is a major scandal, I don't think you see much about a law firm in normal news. Their recent merger was covered in the Wisconsin State Journal. There are other mentions in Madison's newspaper of record and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as well. google newspaper search has some items as well. --Dual Freq (talk) 14:36, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, as per Dual Freq above. Losing the LLC did help in showing up much more coverage. Interesting enough, I took a look at the 7 companies in Category:Law firms based in Wisconsin, and 4 of them probably should go to AFD, but this is not one of them, although all 3 should have a lot of work done on references, they are out there. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 21:49, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —☮JAaron95 ^Talk 07:03, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

• Weak keep Madison is the state capital, so its oldest & largest law firms might be significant. I agree with [[User::Onel5969|:Onel5969]] ([[User talk::Onel5969|talk]] · contribs)'s view on this. ' DGG ( talk ) 05:42, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
• Delete. Even using the links provided above, I'm not finding anything that qualifies as substantial coverage of the law firm. An old Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article featuring the firm's ties to a former state governor may come close, but Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWS. In my view, there's really nothing that indicates this firm meets the general notability guideline; indeed, it appears to fall very short of it. North of Eden (talk) 00:43, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —☮JAaron95 ^Talk 03:51, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

• Keep per DGG & Dual Freq. Sources need to be improved though, way too many are SPS. GregJackP Boomer! 04:47, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

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