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Mercian Cycles are one of the most famous brands of traditionally built bicycles: their classic lightweights and traditional touring bikes have been famous since the 1950s.
Deleting this article on the grounds that it promotes a particular brand would be comparable to deleting an article describing Ford cars!
This page has been zealously - perhaps overly - pruned. I think it would be good to re-build this page, or perhaps something more general on traditionally-crafted steel-framed bicycles. If anyone has any good verifiable sources and has the time, I'd strongly encourage this.
I would say that the notability of this company needs to be established first via reliable third-party sources (
WP:ORG). The lack of RSs is what lead the article to be "pruned" in the first place. Then it would be great to build a quality article on the company (as it would all subjects that meet
WP:N). I do not think that an article about a specific company should be repurposed to be an article about "traditionally-crafted steel-framed bicycles", though. If that subject is notable, it should get its own article.
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