Deletion of Your Black Muslim Bakery

Comment: seems |notable based on the documented history
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: As discussed above the bakery is clearly notable and of national, not merely local, interest. I think Mrand is right to question whether  applies, but I think the ongoing coverage (including mention in ''today's'' ''New York Times''!) and connections to other issues such as Nation of Islam gives this topic the required encyclopedicity. While it doesn't affect the AfD process, I have to add that this proposal is so skewed that it is difficult to assume good faith on the part of the proponent
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: I'm somewhat torn on this one.  As Wikidemo says, requester Boomgaylove is obviously trying to make the topic sound as insignificant as possible by saying "small local business which was involved in some local news coverage", and also trying to make it sound like if we included this one, we'd have to list "every bakery, shop, or restaurant in every high crime urban area."  In reality this particular bakery IS unique and has been on national news multiple times.  So ignoring the incorrect commentary by the requester, and the obviously incorrect  (which is most obviously met with the General notability guideline), we are left with  - which I actually find myself mostly agreeing with.  The tie breaker for me is it's indirect connection to the Nation of Islam series &mdash
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTABLE||WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: Did a Google News search http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=%22your+black+muslim+bakery%22 which shows 304 news stories over very long span of years, including a long story about the bakery in the Oakland Tribune June 16, 1974, which called it the"largest Bay area bakery specializing exclusively in natural food products." It had attained notability by the 1990's due to its commercial prominence as well as the operators' influence in local politics, even without the recent accusations of rape, kidnapping, murder, and torture. Notability is not temporary and in no way ends when a business folds. Substantial coverage (though not main subject) in International Herald Tribune, not a "local" news source http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/19/america/Polk-Awards.php , also coverage in today's New York Times http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/abandonment-of-javits-expansion-stirs-opposition/. California papers continue steady coverage of the recent crime stories months after they broke. See http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8142205  . Seems more than the typical local interest crime story, or lurid crime which gets a splash of widespread publicity. Satisfies . My neighborhood bakery tends not to get nationwide coverage for murder, rape, conspiracy, etc
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)