Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Investing in Real Estate

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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 delete. W.marsh 04:20, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Investing in Real Estate

The page appears to be a commercial advertisement and I don't think that there is an encyclopedic value to a page like this. Delete Dr Debug (Talk) 05:27, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete. Blatant advertising. Even if it wasn't, Wikipedia is not a "how-to" guide on making money. --Kinu 05:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment: this verbiage also sounds like it was lifted directly from an unscrupulous investment website. Of course, there's no way to know for sure, but it probably violates WP:Copyvio in some way. --Kinu 06:08, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
      • Comment: Agreed. How about this way: [1]? Found it with a quick Google search [2] using some of the boilerplate from the article. The page found asserts copyright 2002, so... copyvio it is. ++Lar: t/c 08:59, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Joe 05:42, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Commercial crap. Fuhghettaboutit 05:43, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Wikipedia has lots of gaming guides, why not a guide for investing in real estate. The only part of it that I can see that is "blatant advertising" is the external link probably to the author's website. Remove that and the rest of the information is probably useful even though the original intent may have been to advertise. -- Randomgenius 05:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment - I have removed the external links section from the article. Now it should be fine. -- Randomgenius 05:46, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Apples and oranges. If you're investing in real estate... you really should be seeking professional advice and not looking on Wikipedia for it. :) --Kinu 06:12, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom --kingboyk 06:09, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete copyvio, see above. Someone could possibly create a wellsourced article from scratch about real estate investing principles, but this isn't it. (A much better article on the economics is Real estate economics) ++Lar: t/c 08:59, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Advert and copyvio. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 21:27, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Wikipedia is not a how-to manual, and any gaming guides (as opposed to articles about gaming guides, although I have no love for those either) should be deleted as well. —Cleared as filed. 22:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as Wikipedia is not a how to guide. --Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 02:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Sent to WP:CP as a copyvio. Stifle 02:00, 6 February 2006 (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.