Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Söderströms Förlags Ab

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 18:14, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Söderströms Förlags Ab

[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

No sources, no information, and no notability. Philosophy2 (talk) 15:51, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:12, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finland-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:12, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep. Söderströms was one of the two dominating Swedish-language publishing houses (together with Schildts) in Finland. (Finland is bilingual, Swedish being the smaller of the two official languages.) It had been central in Swedish literature since the 1800s; afte the merger with Schildts, Schildts & Söderström alone dominated the market. This is a key organisation in the history of (Swedish-language) Finnish culture. There's a lot that remains to do, but I've updated the article with sources. /Julle (talk) 18:11, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as Julle says this was a major and long-established publishing house in Scandinavia. Actually I'd have no objection to having one Schildts & Söderströms article (Swedish Wiki has one of those, Schildts & Söderströms), but we can decide that after this AfD has been closed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:55, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Preferably, we'd have one for Söderströms, one for Schildts, and one for Schildts & Söderströms. But someone would have to write them, too. The eternal problem. /Julle (talk) 04:11, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: "no information"? What kind of nonsense is that? Geschichte (talk) 22:34, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as a (if not the) key player in both Finnish and Swedish language publishing in Finland. Looking at this, I'd be inclined to even retarget WSOY (publisher) and Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö to this article rather than their current target, Bonnier Group, which barely mention them. -Ljleppan (talk) 08:47, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per keep arguments posted above are convincing. Chelokabob (talk) 04:41, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep: as mentioned, this was a long-standing and key publisher of both Swedish-language and Finnish-language material. Definitely important to Swedish-speaking Finnish culture. flod logic (talk) 11:46, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.