Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Special Reserve

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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 JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 01:18, 28 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Special Reserve

Article is nominally about a computer retailer that just closed, but bulk of the article is about the company's web forums. The company seems to have been a popular retailer judging by the number of Google results, but ultimately fails WP:CORP. howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 17:33, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete. Although it has a good Google search results, many of those were for alcoholic beverages marketed as "Special Reserve". This story found through Google News states that the company had eight stores and 45 employees in its mailorder business so fails WP:CORP see [1].

Capitalistroadster 18:01, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep and clean up - assuming this is the same Special Reserve mail-order game company, this company's adverts appeared in just about every issue of every gaming magazine I ever bought; they were really pretty well known. The fact that the article as it stands is forumcruft is irrelevant - there's a valid article under all that. — Haeleth Talk 23:02, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Special Reserve did have more than one million members at one point, which since they paid to join, means they were customers. This fulfills point 5 in the corporate inclusion criteria. Also, the reason for creation of this article wasn't to advertise the now defunct company, but rather as a marker for the very large community on the forum. The forum members also spawned two distributed computing teams, one for the soon to finish Find-A-Drug project and one for the Grid.org project.
Vote discounted by closing admin (unsigned} JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 01:16, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep and clean up - assuming this is the same Special Reserve mail-order game company, this company's adverts appeared in just about every issue of every gaming magazine I ever bought; they were really pretty well known. The fact that the article as it stands is forumcruft is irrelevant - there's a valid article under all that. — Haeleth Talk 23:02, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Vote discounted by closing admin (double vote) JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 01:16, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep This is the most in-depth article regarding the closure of Special reserve that I have come across, and it includes useful information regarding the events leading up to the once-huge comperneys closure, as well as explaining how a very large - and still running comunity works. In short, all the information in this article is both valid and valuable.

The forum itself was called ukchatforums.com and was part of the Special Reserve Network. It is the same Special Reserve that Haeleth refers to. Notorious Biggles 23:07, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Vote discounted by closing admin (user's only edit) JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 01:16, 28 November 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.