Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seattle FilmWorks
although the article needs a ton of improvement.  As I recently noted on the article's Talk page, I do think that Seattle FilmWorks was a notable company, but I also agree with the nominator that this notability has not yet been well-established by what's currently in the article.  The article currently contains a lot of detail in the vein of  but doesn't yet show how this company was covered in independent reliable sources.  However, quite a bit of such coverage exists, as suggested by the search results at GNewshttp://www.google.com/search?q=%22Seattle+FilmWorks%22&hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&source=lnt&tbs=ar:1&sa=X&ei=ciQ4T6SxGqSNigL3pfSKCg&ved=0CBQQpwUoBQ&biw=1680&bih=892 and GBookshttp://www.google.com/search?q=Seattle+FilmWorks&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Pof&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=bks&ei=CQ04T4XkNarciQL17t2iBw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CCIQ_AUoAQ&prmdo=1.  Unfortunately, digging through this material is complicated by paywall barriers, by the precarious state of the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' online archives, and because many of the Ghits turn out to be actual Seattle FilmWorks advertisements (as the article mentions, their print ads used to be ''everywhere'').  The  ''Seattle Times'' archives are in somewhat better shape than the ''P-I'''s, and a search therehttp://search.nwsource.com/search?from=ST&query=%22seattle+filmworks%22&x=0&y=0 also produces hundreds of articles which may be helpful in explaining this company's one-time prominence in the film world. Here, however, is one clear example of such coverage: Cynthia Flash, http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-07/business/fi-46255_1_seattle-filmworks-software "Photo Processor Using Net to Enlarge Its Base; Technology: Analysts say Seattle Filmworks' offering of pictures on disk shows its savvy marketing." Associated Press in ''Los Angeles Times'', April 7, 1997.  This article describes in detail how, as of 1997, Seattle FilmWorks was "a leader in mail-order photo finishing", "the first to offer both slides and negatives off the same roll", "the first photo processor to offer pictures on computer disk", "an anomaly in the photo finishing market", etc.  Ominously, though, that 1997 article also mentioned, "Digital cameras, which allow people to load photographs directly from a camera into a computer, could render Seattle Filmworks' processing obsolete."  Imagine that
— User:Arxiloxos, 21:23, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTHOWTO (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)