Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swedeauction

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. This is a Secret ^account 21:02, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Swedeauction

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Contested prod. The article is an essay about a recently invented type of auction, probably taken from promotional material produced by http://www.swedeauction.se (for example see here). The only active use of this type of auction appears to be via swedeauction.se. POV. Unreferenced.andy 15:36, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, pending specific reliable sourcing to verify notability and widespread usage. This appears to be a neologism. I've found only 9 google hits, several of which refer to the Wikipedia article. ("Swede auction" gets even fewer). --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Per moonriddengirl and also as the article reads like a how-to manual • nancy • 18:14, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete verging on spam, Ghits show no independent coverage of term. SkierRMH 18:15, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, advert/how-to/spam, probable copyvio. Stifle (talk) 19:37, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, After the above remarks were written, the author has made important additions to the article and to its talk page. Please read those additions now. Max7437 18:26, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Comment As requested & in the interests of arriving at the right decision I have looked at the revised article but neither of my main concerns (WP:NEO and WP:NOT#HOWTO) have been addressed so I stand by my original !vote. nancy 18:41, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Comment (edit conflict) While you've added extensive notes, you have not added much sourcing or addressed my concerns. There are now 20 distinct google hits for the term—which is the # of hits google comes up with after removing duplicates. The majority of those refer to this article. Among the rest, there's a blog (here, a search engine of some sort (here) a redlinked article in another language Wiki (here) and a copy of an article on Owe Junsjö (here). That's all I can find. I have combed through page after page of google hits for the term "Swedish Auction" and not found anything using this term to verify that it is not a WP:Neologism. I have found some information about how auctions are conducted in Swedish real estate (see here and here), but neither of them use any specific term for the practice, and certainly not Swedeauction. I also found a .pdf from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (HTML version here) that lists the four types of real estate auctions: "English, Dutch, first and second-price sealed bid auctions". They don't mention Swedeauction or Swedish Auction or anything like, even though its a 2006 report from Sweden discussing auctions in Swedish real estate. That report states that with regards to housing auctions in Sweden, "The auctions are either conventional English ascending-bid auctions or executive auctions". All indications suggest to me that this is not a widespread term. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

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