Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SHIPS

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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 Delete. EdJohnston (talk) 22:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SHIPS

SHIPS (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Orphaned two-sentance article about a Japanese clothing brand. My searches of Google have not come up with any reliable sources for the subject (although this is partly because the "Ship" more commonly means boat or mailing. The few web pages that actually describe the subject that I can find (see top three results) are either this article or mirrors of the same. At the moment, I cannot see this article passing the WP:Notability (organizations and companies) guideline, due to the lack of WP:Reliable sources.

If the article is deleted, it should be redirected and locked to Ship, as this name appears to have been used in the past for duplicate articles or forks of Ship or Shipping (fandom). If kept, it should be moved to a name with an appropriate qualifier. -- saberwyn 02:47, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete as per the above reasons., and redirect to ship. Noble Story (talk) 03:06, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —brewcrewer (yada, yada) 03:18, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. —brewcrewer (yada, yada) 03:21, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Redirect to ship.  Esradekan Gibb  "Talk" 04:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - This is not a clothing line, but a nationwide string of stores, much like the GAP etc. According to their info page, http://m.shipsltd.co.jp/05/outline_e.php, they have sales in excess of 200million US$, and offices in New York, etc. Searching google for Japanese news articles is painful in the best of circumstances, given the propensity for sites to charge for articles in the past; but, with their common name, it becomes downright arduous. The Ginza Keizai (business newspaper) has a few links that should be enough to push this over the notability ledge. [1] [2], and, I'm confident that if someone were to visit a library with old print newspapers, even more would be found. - Neier (talk) 00:29, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep and update to reflect Neier's research. —Quasirandom (talk) 20:48, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - This article was created in 2002 but has been edited less than 30 times since then, it is abandonned, it has no sources and only 1 sentence. Why should we keep it? Just because it is notable? It has no information on it, that article is an embarrassment to Wikipedia for we have articles with no information on them. Delete it and when somebody has the time, recreate it with at least some useful information.⇨ EconomistBR ⇦ Talk 03:56, 26 May 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.