Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sockshop

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Note that I ignored "votes" which I interpreted to be either sarcastic, joking or, in one case, made by a suspected troll.

Two serious people explicitly asked for a "delete then redirect". The target is very similar to the version being nominated, convincing me that there was at least some content reuse. If so, we cannot delete this version without violating the attribution history requirements of GFDL. Reviewing the history of this version, I find nothing so objectionable that we must take all the extra steps to purge the history. I am going to exercise my discretion and redirect to Sock Shop. Rossami (talk) 21:40, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sockshop

100% pure commercial advertising for a shop selling socks. Calton | Talk 11:14, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete at least a partial copyvio of http://www.sockshop.co.uk/aboutus --Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 11:25, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's not even an entertaining advert...although the pictures are verging on the hilarious. Peeper 11:29, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:SOCK :) Radiant_>|< 11:46, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Blatant advertising. kvidell 11:47, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, blatant advert. Let's not worry about copyright violations, that only prolongs its existence. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:14, August 25, 2005 (UTC) I changed my vote.
• Comment. There must be a well stocked branch near Mr Parker's Law Firm practise. Seriously though, this is an established retailer with near nationwide coverage in the UK, admittedly not as famous as Boots the Chemist or Marks & Spencer, and at present it does read as Badvetising. Alf 13:22, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

And I've noticed there is a duplicate page at Sock Shop. Alf 16:25, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I've greeted and suggested the editor make comments here. Alf 16:27, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

• Weak Keep but cleanup and de-copyvio it. Does seem like a fairly large retail chain in operation more than 20 years. We have plenty of retail store articles... Category:Retail corporation stubs lists about 400 of them. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:01, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
• keep please the wp:sock does not really apply here this time if you ask me this is a notbale chain as starblind just said Yuckfoo 19:32, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep it's a well know chain in the UK. Trollderella 19:49, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep with cleanup to remove ad-like copy and copyvio. Verifiable. Funny, though, I don't see any possible sockpuppet votes. *grin* -- WCFrancis 20:43, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Can't see anything notable about this particular sock company. They make socks. —Charles O'Rourke 23:41, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not so sure that thay actually make the socks themselves, they are a retailer, they probably get puppets to make the socks for them. Alf 09:04, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete and redirect to Sock Shop which I've edited to wikiformatting standards and which appears to be the proper spelling of the name. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:59, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect as per Mgm. Alf 09:04, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Stardestroyer.net2. Or to Sock Shop. Whichever. Proto t c 09:23, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect I posted this section, whilst I can see your concerns about advertising, I was trying to make sure no products were mentioned and it was factual with no offers or ads. Take for example entry - iRobot - this shows the key two products Roomba and Packbot (a great entry), but has been kept, there are more examples. There are no issues of copywrite I can confirm. Thanks though for reformatting the Sock Shop entry. Toomuchfranking 10:38, 26 August 2005
• Redirect. Although I would like to see some further work on the article. Alf 21:01, 29 August 2005 (UTC) (I had to change this vote as I intially thought I was on Sock Shop, redirect this to there. Alf 21:04, 29 August 2005 (UTC))
• Keep as per WP:SOCK. Do not redirect. —RaD Man (talk) 04:50, 1 September 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.