Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NetPay

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 Delete. — Scientizzle 05:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NetPay

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Lack of Notability, Orphaned Article Cahk (talk) 02:23, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Weak Keep, because a Google searches brings up many results on this service. The article just needs to be improved.--Astroview120mm 03:00, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Lots of those are thousands upon thousands of pages from the same domain, screen-scraped copies of pages, linkfarms, and other outright keyword spam. Google says "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 781 already displayed". This is why the Google hits - WP:GHITS - argument is listed in Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions - TheBilly^Talk 14:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. -- the wub "?!" 12:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Strong delete No press coverage about the importance of their company or other proof of notability. There are countless online payment processors that have sprung up in the vain hope of ousting PayPal. Their Alexa rank is 1.1 million suggesting that nobody actually uses them. My own non-notable 100-unique-per-day website has 400,000 to 600,000. This could probably be speedied, actually, since it doesn't even have a mere claim of notability - TheBilly^Talk 14:51, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete, strongly: absolutely no showing of independent sources required by WP:CORP, and as an Internet business, that case needs to be made from the beginning in the article itself. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy delete and avoid re-create. Cornell University uses an online payment system called Net.Pay.[1] Clark Public Utilities uses a system called Net Pay that links to mycheckfree.com.[2] Allison Payments Systems has a product called APS NetPay.[3] Netpay here[4] refers to a specific protocol for online payments. NetPay and its variations seems to be used as a generic term for an online payment system. This article could seriously mislead readers into signing up for an online account they didn't mean to sign up for. That's worrying. I hadn't realized how widespread the abbreviation is. It belongs in the dictionary. --Busy Stubber (talk) 16:15, 7 January 2008 (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.