Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ebooking (2nd nomination)

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The result was I had a strong urge to follow the opinion delete Just as booking means many different things, there is no such single thing as "e-booking" beyond dictionary definition. A good decision would be to have a disambig page, similar to Booking. Alas, in wikipedia there is close to none possible disambig targets which use this word. As I guess other admins could not know what to do either, since this page sits unclosed so long. However after re-reading this article several times and googling a bit I see that the "not-widely-known government reservation system" is a UK gov't initiative to push for such reservation systems, and as such it is certainly notable, verifiable, and it seems has some verifiable results. Therefore I am closing it as keep and furter processing the content as I see fit (see yourselves in 5-10 minutes) . `'Míkka>t 05:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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• Notability query by User:Torc2 as to which "Ebooking" correctly means, out of:
  1. Booking things over the internet in general, e.g. airlines and hotels.
  2. A specific type of not-widely-known government reservation system.

  (See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/E-Booking. I merged E-Booking into Ebooking.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

• comment - thanks for relisting this. There's no doubt "ebooking" or "e-booking" is a somewhat common term. Just that the two articles that Wiki had on these addressed somewhat isolated uses of the term. This article could either be very short ("Ebooking refers to making reservations online", with a list of different applications - sort of a glorified disambiguation page) or could redirect to ecommerce or a similar article. Torc2 (talk) 21:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wikitionary. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as a dicdef. -- Whpq (talk) 21:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as neologism(s). Fee Fi Foe Fum 22:24, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - certainly not a neologism; this is a widely used term. The page is also more than a dicdef. There are plenty of sources from which the article could be expanded [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and so on. The page needs a thorough rewrite - ebooking is extensively used in the private sector for example - but the topic is encyclopaedic. There is also no easy merge target - eCommerce is too narrow as it doesn't cover the non-commercial uses, for example. I think that this should be kept and expanded. TerriersFan 03:07, 3 December 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.