Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shanda

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The result of the debate was KEEP (nomination withdrawn). Robert 00:30, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shanda

Delete. Blatant advertising. Content is a link.  freshgavin^TALK   06:01, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete under criteria A3 (articles consisting only of an external link.) --Aquillion 06:22, 19 October 2005 (UTC) Keep the new version. --Aquillion 15:25, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete per above. --bainer (talk) 06:23, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

So there it was -   -;;. Withdrawl nomination in favour of speedy delete.  freshgavin^TALK   06:38, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: People adding external links aren't necessarily advertising anything, they may just be trying to help. I see User:Darknshadow has already been nagged. Kappa 06:52, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Turns out this is a very notable company and helps address systemic bias. Keep. Kappa 07:09, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• I agree with delete. An online gaming company that once got an article in Forbes is hardly encyclopedic. Maybe they should make it onto the List of online gaming companies. When they do, I'll vote to delete that list as well. This is not encyclopedia material.—Gaff ^ταλκ 07:14, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep Publicly traded company (ADRs) on the Nasdaq, with a market cap upward of a billion dollars. WP:CORP. Nuff said. Dottore So 08:27, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per kappa & dottoreso --Anetode 09:09, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Dottore So. --GraemeL ^(talk) 12:07, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Due to Kappa's nice play.  freshgavin^TALK   23:23, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Obvious keep - Er, do you folks realize this is the most significant and popular gaming company in China? It has a US $1.6 billion market cap [1]. Fuzheado | Talk 02:44, 25 October 2005 (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.