Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Auctioning4u

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 delete. It may be helpful to point to WP:CORP, which is the basis for the delete votes here. Mangojuice^talk 14:01, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auctioning4u

Yet another eBay drop-off service. Precedent is to delete these. Contested prod.

• Delete as per my nom. Dlyons493 Talk 10:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete per nom. It's basically an advert. Doesn't meet WP:WEB or WP:CORP, in my opinion. Keep There is precedent for keeping, as seen in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/ISold_It. The article has also developed into a more mature entry. It still needs work to remove first person references if kept. Otherwise, it still reads like an advert in places. Joe 19:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC) (updated 03:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC))

I am the company's CEO and therefore my view might be regarded as biased. I believe, however, that our industry has a major change on how people live their lifes and the emergence of what we refer to as Auction Culture (see also Daniel Nissanoff's 2006 book on FutureShop. We are the oldest player in Europe and are often asked by the media (BBC, ITN etc.) to comment on major issues in online auctioning (like recently where we were asked to comment on the eBay strike in the UK). Christian Braun

• • Question Can you post links to verify that - especially oldest player in Europe which is certainly a claim of being not just a run-of-the-mill service? Dlyons493 Talk 18:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• In respect to Wikipedia we have endevioured to include as much factural information in the article as possible, and have followed closely the model of i soldit entry (another major chain). In answer to the question of the oldest drop shop in Europe, this is difficult to prove. However we have been trading since 2003 and there are 42 drop shop in the UK and europe who have opened after us. We are the only substantial chain of eBay drop shop in the UK (i.e. more than one store) and recently raised £2.1M in funding (a total of £4M over the last three years).

Trevor Ginn - Head of Consulting

• Thanks for all your comments. We have de-personalised the entry and hope it conforms to much more objective overview of the company. We would welcome further comments on how the entry might be improved. Re: the comment "there is a precedent for keeping" as in 'I Sold It' entry. We concur.

Dominique Radclyffe - Retail Manager

• Delete. NPOVified or not it's still an article on a local eBay drop-off business that doesn't seem to be notable or rate an encyclopedia article. KleenupKrew 02:21, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 15:22, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

• Strong delete Not Notable, just an advert. Daviegold 15:21, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

• We have added more factual information, in particular the relationship with Barnardo's, Mind, Save The Children and other charities. --Joschik

• Strong delete I can find no evidence of notability. --Charlesknight 20:13, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

• I would be interested in the views of Daviegold and Charlesknight views how this article differs from the one on ISold It. --Joschik

That's an old dog and does not hunt - defend this article not question another. I'll take a look at the article you mentioned in the morning, if I think it's chuff I'm nominate it for AFD myself. --Charlesknight 23:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Just read more about the AfD process and Wikiquette. For the avoidance of doubt I am the company's CEO commenting above as such and further below under my user name [joschik] Joschik 23:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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.