Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BYOA

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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 keep --Aarktica 20:15, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BYOA

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This was an effort to create an article with minimal significance. I appreciate the effort, but with so few editors jumping in to help here, the article will remain very limited. E_dog95 Hi 20:52, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep. You're not really giving a valid reason for deletion. There is no deadline for this project, there's plenty of time for it to grow. Do you have a concern of notability, verifiability, etc. that would be a reason to delete? --UsaSatsui 20:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Yes Sir. What I mean when I say "minimal significance" IS "lack of notability". This is a valid reason. It's not an encyclopedic article. E_dog95 Hi 21:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I don't know. A google search for 'BYOA' gets 50,000 ghits[1] while the more restrictive 'BYOA access' gets 18,000 ghits[2], which suggests that the term has wide name recognition. --Malcolmxl5 21:45, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Yep. I see that BYOA even has two sites that use the term in the context of the article. The rest are varied. They range from "Bring Your Own Advil" to "Bavaria Yacht Owners Association". So I do concede that the term, as it's described in the article, is marginally valid. I hadn't googled it before, so now I'm on the fence. E_dog95 Hi 22:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, but rewrite to show that this is more typically a term referring to connecting to online services like AOL and Compuserve using a local broadband provider, per the "BYOA access" search above.--SarekOfVulcan 15:22, 8 October 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.