Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Easily satisfies  and  as fifth largest auction house in U.S.  If the tone is promotional, edit it. Deletion is not a substitute for editing when there are sources. Check Google Book search, and you see many reliable sources with substantial coverage. Business Review Weekly: BRW (1992) said of Hindman "she runs Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, the hottest auction house in Chicago.""Furniture Hot Spots: The Best Furniture Stores and Websites Coast to Coast" (2005) http://books.google.com/books?id=F3bySX783kAC&pg=PA3&dq=aution+%22leslie+hindman%22&lr=&as_brr=0&sig=ACfU3U1xgl_yJqjdGJMLoEMyQfrtXakEMg has extensive coverage, calling Hindman's the fifth largest auction house in the country and the largest in the midwest. Google News archive http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=auction&num=100&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=leslie+hindman&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_user_ldate=&as_user_hdate=&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p0&as_scoring= search has many news article with substantial coverage http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB36D8F2203AE08&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM , such as Businessweek(2000)  which has an article about her appraisal service http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0005/ec0516.htm which talks about her sale to Sotheby's for $20,000,000 in 1997. It was also covered in The Chicago Tribune  http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB42312D869BF25&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM and The New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04EFDE1231F934A15755C0A961958260 . The Washington Post covered her discovery and sale of a Van Gogh at a then record price for a Chicago art sale http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72093912.html?dids=72093912:72093912&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=MAR+11%2C+1991&author=Judd+Tully&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Auction%3BDiscovered+van+Gogh+Sells+for+%241.43+Million&pqatl=google. Sotheby's getting out of the Chicaho auction business it had bought from Hindman was covered in 2001 http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7883819_ITM in the Tribune. Auctionbytes (2003) covered the reopening of her Chicago auction operation http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y03/m09/i24/s03. Hindman has been a TV show host, has written books on art collecting, and has been acknowledged as an expert. Her business is internationally known
— User:Edison, 20:05, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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