Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Folio (Company)

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The result of the debate was no consensus. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:26, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Folio (Company)

A school 'enterprise' company, non-encyclopedic self-promotion--nixie 13:35, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Folio Young Enterprise is active within the Colchestrian community. The article provides information to many in Colchester, as well as members of the School. I intend for the Young Enterprise of CRGS to be integrated with Colchester Royal Grammar School. -- Comment by User:213.78.82.189

Keep it.. 'self-promotion' was never intended to be a motive for writing this article. It is certainly not 'non-encyclopedic', if only for the reason that it provides information to many people who will never buy a product. The style of the article is informative, not self-promoting, and to delete it would be to go against wikipedia's original aims: to inform without bias based on importance. I would politely suggest that perhaps wikipedia is going downhill if people spend their time looking for knowledge to be lost rather than found. This is as much about the principles as about the specific argument: the loss of knowledge is against wikipedia's deeply-held core beliefs, and as not a single word of the article is opinion, to delete would be to go against all of this. --diji_tak 15:00, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I vote keep. As a resident of Colchester (undeniably one of the more famous towns in Britain) I found this article useful. No attempt has been made to sell the products of the company (especially since most would be irrelevant to the target audience) and there is only one link to the website, so I do not think this article is particularly self-promoting. On the contrary, I found it to be most informative and educational. Admittedly, it is a little short, and with a little expansion it could be truly encycolpedic, but I see no reason to delete the article. Keep it. --flex21 16:43, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Is this group significantly different from the countless Junior Enterprise chapters in other schools? I'm not convinced of the notability of a company that only exists for one year, and then only within the walls of a grammar school. Delete, or merge to Colchester Royal Grammar School if they want it there. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 17:32, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Condense and Merge to Colchester Royal Grammar School as per TenOfAllTrades. Add a link from Junior Enterprises as this is a good example. Folio just doesn't come across as having an existence separate from the grammar school. FreplySpang (talk) 19:46, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to Colchester Royal Grammar School, not really notable outside of the college. Megan1967 04:49, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as above but add infomation about Prism Their other young enterprise company. (See [1].) TAS 11:02, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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