Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Business opportunity

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 but rewrite. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-13 08:12Z

[edit] Business opportunity

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I can't find a version of this article that doesn't suck and doesn't include original research. Guy (Help!) 14:45, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep - the article has a long list of references. However, I agree it needs massive improvement and cleanup from its present POV state. Walton monarchist89 14:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, the article is referenced, but not with in-line citations. Therefore claiming this is all OR is not strong argument. Also the argument that the article "sucks" does not impress me. The article should be cleaned up, not deleted. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 15:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and rewrite. Argument for deletion is fairly poor, but there are problems that warrant a rewrite. Whilding87 16:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. I agree that the fact that the current article "sucks" is not grounds for deletion. Nor is the fact that it seems to be a spam magnet necessarily grounds for deletion, though I deleted several spammy or broken external links given as the "references". But I am also not confident that this can ever be expanded in a worthwhile and neutral way beyond a dictionary definition; or for that matter, beyond the definitions of the two words of the title. It seems incredibly vague and too open-ended to support much of an article. Trying to move beyond this, you will either get promoters of the various dubious get-rich-quick enterprises that are pitched as "business opportunities", or you will get their critics. At best, this should be a disambiguation page for such things as franchising and pyramid schemes. - Smerdis of Tlön 16:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - the article has a long list of references. Mathmo ^Talk 06:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. After removing spam links, dead links, and blogspot links (not reliable sources), two external links are left as "references." - Smerdis of Tlön 17:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment This may be a BrE/AmE difference, but I thought that a "business opportunity", in its true sense, was just that - an opportunity to start or expand a genuine business via a "gap in the market", as described here for example. The Wikipedia article seems to be describing what I would call get-rich-quick schemes - their creators might call them "business opportunities", but they are not really. (It's a bit like calling prostitution a "romantic opportunity"...) AdorableRuffian 22:37, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment - this is why I think that if anything at all should go here, it should be some kind of disambiguation page. There is an economic concept of "opportunity", usually discussed in the context of opportunity cost, the cost that arises out of the roads not taken, the loss of alternative uses that come from dedicating a resource to a purpose. There is also your sense, which is an aspect of marketing. Finally, "business opportunity" is used as a euphemism in the sense this article is about, for the promotion of multi-level marketing, advance fee frauds, forex scams, secret plans to make millions speculating in land or on Ebay, and similar morally and legally dubious and economically implausible schemes. The phrase is inherently vague, and in itself not really a good subject for an article in chief. - Smerdis of Tlön 01:04, 11 February 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.