Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cashback

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 of the debate was Keep, and I urge those who believe this article should be kept to cleanup and expand it. Ral315 (talk) 10:15, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cashback

This is not an encyclopedia article. User:Zoe|^(talk) 04:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, trim it with a blowtorch and mold it with a hammer. Reward programmes are a common enough phenomenon to warrant an article, although this is in an atrocious state. Zunaid 09:18, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: I've ever so slightly wikified the article and added an {{unreferenced}} tag. If the article is kept the title should be changed at some point to something like "cashback reward systems" or "loyalty programs". (On a side-note

• Strike everything, I've just found this: Loyalty program. changing my vote to merge Zunaid 10:08, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Is this the same as loyalty programmes? -- JJay 11:35, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: In the UK, 'cashback' is something one can get when purchasing goods with a debit or credit card. You could, for example, ask for ten pounds cashback. Your bill is increased by £10, and you get £10 'cash' 'back'. Hence, cashback. It saves going to ATMs, etcetera. That should be referred to in this article. Proto t c 12:13, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Hmmm...it is certainly a "rewards program", which is basically a form of loyalty program isn't it?. Maybe it's not exactly synonymous with "loyalty program" but IMHO it would still be better served as a section in the loyalty program article. As for the use of the term "cashback" in the UK, that could probably be dealt with when this AfD runs its course. (On a side-note, the loyalty program article itself seems to be almost exclusively about loyalty cards and does not clearly define what loyalty programs are. I'm surprised to find only a link (not even a brief outline) to frequent flyer program.) Zunaid 12:30, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Hmmmmm....being on the European side of all this, the name actually implies the system used in British supermarkets, where if you pay with a bank card of some description, you can opt to receive cash as you would from an ATM which will be charged to your card together with your groceries. I think in this sense the name is quite confusing. Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 13:22, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as as above if appropriate or delete. The UK meaning of cashback should be defined at Wikionary as it doesn't warrant and entire Wikipedia article. —gorgan_almighty 14:01, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. For those outside of North America, this is not a loyalty program. The functional advantage is that it saves a trip to the bank. Sometimes people make a small purchase (such as a pack of chewing gum) because cash back purchases are not subject to transaction fees and the price of a candy bar is less than the cost of withdrawing an evening's spending cash from an automated teller. I doubt this trivia is worthy of an encyclopedia. Durova 16:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC) Keep/expand or Merge per User:Jcuk, whichever way the consensus leans. Durova 23:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Loyalty program.--Bkwillwm 22:50, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment It seems that Cashback mean different things depending on which side of the Atlantic you're sitting. Would it not then be worth having A) a Disambig page pointing to the Loyalty Program AND an article on Cashback in the UK, or B) Keeping this page and expanding it, to explain the differences. I for one had no idea what it meant in America..... Jcuk 22:53, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep as per Jcuk's comment. -Scott Wilson 17:15, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: I think there's a lot more to say about the concept of "cashback" in the United States than there is for the UK version (where the US definition of cashback is Loyalty Programme or Loyalty Scheme in the UK), but it still has the potential to hugely confuse Commonwealth speakers.
• Keep atleast where I've gone shopping you can get "cashback" when you pay with a debit card and they withdraw the specified amount from your account. This should probably be disambig to point to loyalty programs and Cashback from debit cards. --Pboyd04 03:12, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment and I live in the US. Doesn't everywhere have something similar to this? --Pboyd04 03:13, 27 December 2005 (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.