Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arvest Bank

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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 of the debate was Keep (6/1). Nom was withdrawn anyways. Shreshth91 14:49, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Arvest Bank

Non-notable regional bank, reads like an advertisement Jasmol 19:45, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

  • Weak Keep. I killed the advertising language and made a stub out of it. Might be notable enough. -- Marcika 20:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Given the criteria on company inclusion guidelines, the only test I could see it passing was "The company has more than one million customers." Couldn't find that info on the website. The marketing-language cleanup helps a lot, though. Jasmol 20:50, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Many, perhaps most, of the articles about companies don't meet those guidelines. They are more a deletionist fantasy about how high the bar might be set in a deletionists ideal world than a reflection of actual practice and consensus. But as they are having little effect, I can't be bothered to try to change them. CalJW 00:21, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
You can't be bothered to do a lot of things. I'm trying to be nice, so I won't give you a list. Denni☯ 04:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep A bank with several dozen branches. There are many articles about smaller companies. CalJW 00:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, has been cleaned up into a proper article. Bryan 00:51, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete In the global scheme of things, an infinitesmally small player. Denni☯ 04:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. A bank with branches in three states is large enough in my opinion. - Andre Engels 08:47, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep: Notable bank whose CEO is Jim Walton. Could be important given recent news of possible emergence of Bank of Wal-Mart. --Howrealisreal 15:46, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Rescinded my nomnication for afd. Looks good after cleanup. Jasmol 22:06, 12 November 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.