Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hotel Chocolat

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. Mailer Diablo 18:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hotel Chocolat

Vanispamvertisement. Dark Shikari 13:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NN, WP:SPAM. --Porqin 13:40, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Only one hit on Gnews, looks like an incidental mention: [1]. Doubt it passes WP:CORP. Luna Santin 13:54, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Wow, that's a very unexpected place for a reference to them to turn up, considering they're UK-based. - makomk 21:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
    • That's a reprint of an FT article, best I can tell. That almost constitutes "notable". But not for the existing content. Argyriou 19:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Speedyable? Similar advert deleted before as copyvio. Re-created (although apparently re-written) by same user, also linkspammed other articles. Femto 15:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as ad for a non-notable company. It looks like it belongs on an "about us" page, but I can't seem to pin it down as a copyvio. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 17:41, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete. It's still an ad, and is still written in first person. Argyriou 21:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I think I vaguely remember reading an eligible feature or article about them in a UK newspaper, but I can't remember which one. (My mind could well be playing tricks on me, though.) In any case, Google News doesn't seem to be much good for finding past references to things in the news, and this company has been around for a while - does anyone have a way of checking for past newspaper (and other news) references? - makomk 21:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

  Hmmm... front-page article on The Telegraph Business Club website about them (case study), and their website was mentioned on forbes.com's Best of the Web (though that doesn't help, really). If they really have an "100,000-strong chocolate tasting club", I must say that's quite impressive too. - makomk 21:32, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

  It may be notable enough to justify having an article under WP:CORP, but with this content it still fails WP:SPAM. Femto 12:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete current version. Reads like a commercial. Needs to be rewritten from scratch. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 19:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment They had a leaflet distributed with Amazon deliveries in the UK for the holiday season - I don't think this constitutes endorsement, though... - Samsara (talk • contribs) 19:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Consensus anyone?

• It's been 5 days. I think it's possible for a Hotel Chocolat article to be written which is worth keeping in Wikipedia, but this article, and probably any produced by Cpbishop are not that article. Oh, and he linkspammed Chocolate again today. Argyriou 19:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Still not closed, but I will cast another call to Delete this spamvertisement. --Karnesky 22:33, 31 July 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.