Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ansett Regional Airlines

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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 03:29, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ansett Regional Airlines

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Fails WP:CORP, there are no secondary sources on this start up aside from a trademark application which appears to be going to Federal Court. Searches for this entity result in regional airline operations relating to Ansett. Russavia 16:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Note: This AfD is not about Ansett Australia, Ansett New Zealand or Ansett's former regional airlines Hazelton Airlines, Kendell and Skywest (Australian airline) or their successor Regional Express Airlines - they will continue to have articles.

Comment, the further one looks at this, the more obvious this 'airline' is a piss-take. As this Google cache of one of their domains shows[1] --Russavia 22:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete Not entirely sure it is a pisstake, although I could not find any evidence of existence through Google, but the article is unsourced and possibly breaches WP:CRYSTAL. If and when it starts flying, then re-create the article. -- Mattinbgn/ talk 23:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per Mattinbgn. -- Hawaiian717 23:38, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, suspect this is a hoax, and if it isn't it fails notability. Euryalus 00:42, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Agree Delete per Mattinbgn - WP:CRYSTAL and Russavia WP:CORP - besides I find it difficult to believe that a company will exist (or would want to) with permission or desire to use the name of a failed airline? So Hoax? - we will see - if wrong then re-create.--VS talk 01:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Ansett. Ansett had a number of regional airlines prior to its demise. [2] There are no sources on Google News/Google News Archives that verifies the current contents. Capitalistroadster 03:07, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment The article talks about a "proposed airline" not a previous one, and that "It is in no way whatsoever connected with the former Ansett Australia which ceased operations in 2001"--VS talk 03:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete WP:CORP, WP:CRYSTAL, poss WP:ADVERT. Orderinchaos 09:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I did a quick scan of the literature and "Ansett Regional Airlines" was never an incorporated entity [3] until 2005 when the entity that is the subject of this article was created. Hazelton, Kendell etc appear to have been separately registered (see HZL Limited, Hazelton Air Services Pty Ltd, Anst Lednek Airlines (Aust) Pty Ltd). Zivko85 12:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as unfunny hoax, as per Russavia above. Lankiveil 23:45, 25 May 2007 (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.