Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skywards destinations

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. The keep comments did not address the strong points for deletion raised by Vegaswikian. Kimchi.sg 15:56, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Skywards destinations

Page created by a fan of a frequent flyer program. Skywards is not an airline, so it can't have "destinations". The same user has been spamming other airline pages with links to the Skywards article.

Delete - voting delete since I'm the nominator. Dbinder (talk) 20:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment No need to "vote" as (1) this is a discussion, not a vote and votes are unwelcome; and (2) as the person proposing the article for deletion, it is taken as read that you wish for it to be deleted unless you say otherwise. Thanks. ➨ ЯЄDVERS 21:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • (1) I will call it what I want. Also, (2) there is nothing that says the nominator cannot vote, and it is fairly common for the nominator to add a delete line. Dbinder (talk) 21:18, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

  Comment (1) This is not a vote. No good comes from calling it a vote when it isn't. This is a discussion, designed to see what the community consensus on the future of the article is. Votes are unwelcome in such a discussion. In fact, votes are likely to be discounted by the closing admin. (2) It is not common for nominators to "vote". It has been uncommon for a while now for nominators to express their opinion outside of their nomination text. And no nominator has "voted" since we abolished voting last year and introduced this consensus method. Thanks. ➨ ЯЄDVERS 21:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Woah Woah. I object to this 'spamming' thing. Can I just give you a run down with what I did? I’m a member of Skywards and have an interest in the whole Emirates/Sri Lankan tie. I noticed a few weeks ago that there was no entry for Skywards. I noticed there was entries for alliances such as SkyTeam and oneworld and although Skywards isn't really an alliance. It is an agreement to collect miles via both airlines as they both have an equal part in Skywards. I also thought I knew quite a bit about the frequent flyer program so I could write a fairly decent article. The Skywards destinations was simply meant in the same way SkyTeam has a page of where their member airlines fly to, I created a page for where the members of Skywards flies to. I wasn’t trying to be malicious. In response to this ‘spamming’ thing. I didn’t mean to ‘spam’. It wasn’t pointless vandalism across random entries. I only did around 5 entries where information on alliances had already been brought up. I put a 2 sentence paragraph informing that flyers could earn miles with Skywards as well. It wasn’t meant to be malicious or Spam. I’m just trying to create a more detailed entry. -User:Coolmark1800:01, 21 June 2006 (BST)
• Keep this falls into the same category as Skyteam destinations, Star Alliance destinations, and Oneworld destinations. Ziggurat 00:24, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. A non-organizational list. Not encyclopedic. The others should be deleted as well. —Centrx→talk 05:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep In the same way many other Alliance Destination pages are available, Skywards is no different. We need to be consistent. User:Coolmark18 08:09, 23 June 2006 (BST)
• Strong Delete. Skywards is not an airline or an airline alliance. As such it can not provide flights to any destinations so it can't have destinations hence no article. What country is their operating certificate(s) issued from? To try and equate a travel awards loyality program with a marketing alliance that offers code share connections between various airlines is so wrong in so many ways. This would be the same as listing all of the things you can purchase with any loyality based program. Vegaswikian 07:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Could you not say that Emirates and Sri Lankan have formed an alliance? See Airline alliance Coolmark18 15:28, 24 June 2006 (BST)
    • They appear to have established a code share agreement and a shared loyality program. That is a far cry from an alliance as used in the examples here. Vegaswikian 16:36, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, please, and move it to Wikitravel.-choster 15:03, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Vegaswikian. Move to wikitravel if appropriate, but Wikipedia's not the the place for this. Inner Earth 11:05, 27 June 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.