Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Www.shoptogive.us

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 Speedy Delete. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 04:42, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Www.shoptogive.us

Initially, just copied site description (with permission of owner) but was too ad based and not objective. Changed to be a simple description of the website and what it does. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.169.10.209 (talk • contribs) 16:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC) Still an advertisement for an NN website. Morgan Wick

• Strong speedy delete per nom, should be speedied soon.--Andeh 00:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete, per abovebecause what is said here can be said in the Livestrong wristband article, although the {{afd}}, {{prod}}, and {{db}} tags don't all need to be on this page. Choose one. joturner 01:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Changed it to be less advertising...what else should be changed to make it better? Instead of deleting....MODIFY!!! Help out ppl are new to wikipedia—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.169.10.209 (talk • contribs).

• Delete Appears to be so new that google hasn't found it. Can't find a whois record. No Alexa, obviously. Thoroughly fails WP:WEB. - Fan1967 01:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Site is over a year old and adding it to wikipedia would OBVIOUSLY help to get exposure...you people seem all too eager to stop any way to help find a cure for cancer.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.169.10.209 (talk • contribs).

• Comment. Wikipedia is not a bulletion board, and does not exist to help gain exposure for an otherwise unknown enterprise, no matter how noble its motivations. Fan1967 01:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment/Delete I was the one who listed this, though an anon replaced my original rationale with the above. After speedy, prod, and advert tags were added, someone then changed the content to not be copyvio, and removed all three tags. Therefore the copyvio speedy tag no longer belongs (as the anon's statements above state, it never did, hence my non-reversion of it), and when someone else re-added the tags on top of the AfD one (I had already applied the advert tag) I removed the prod because you're not supposed to re-prod, hence this AfD. Morgan Wick 01:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Something smells very, very wrong here. There used to be a charity site, shoptogive.com, which no longer exists. shoptogive.us totally fails any google search at all. Nobody's ever heard of it, including the livestrong website, that supposedly benefits. Fan1967 01:38, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• The site does exist, in case anyone's wondering. Morgan Wick 01:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Yep, it exists, but I sure wouldn't want to give it my credit card number. Fan1967 01:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Shop to Give US, could it be any more blatant? Speedy Delete, NN for sure, SPAM for certain, SCAM very likely. ~ trialsanderrors 02:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete "Adding it to Wikipedia would help get exposure" -- that proves the point. NawlinWiki 01:50, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nomination. Ted 01:52, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per Fan1967 point re http://www.livestrong.org not having an obvious link to this org. Also there us nothing on the front page (or any privacy policy page) with any sort of certificate visible for verification of who owns the site, nor official recognition from Amazon. David Ruben ^Talk 01:59, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Add one more suspicious fact. Website DNS address resolves to nfrance.com, a free webhosting service. You'd think a legitimate charity would use a real commercial provider, in the US. Fan1967 02:05, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:SPAM and WP:WEB, no Alexa ranking [1]--☆TBC☆ (aka Tree Biting Conspiracy) 02:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment why is this still here?--Andeh 03:16, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

  I changed the text to reflect the findings here until an administrator kills this off. ~ trialsanderrors 04:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• I changed it back, because I think that version is more likely to be deleted. If you want to restore the old justification, use the deletion notice. I'd also leave a message on the talk page of an admin who is known to be available during this time of Sunday night. Morgan Wick 04:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete: If these guys go down, while they have a Wikipedia article, Wikipedia is gonna be blamed for promoting them. Deathawk 04:08, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete per Deathawk. --Coredesat 04:30, 12 June 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.