Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Gadget Shop

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 NO CONSENSUS. — JIP | Talk 07:04, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Gadget Shop

non notable company using Wikipedia to advertise business and web site Gator (talk) 19:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom.Gator (talk) 19:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as above. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 19:15, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Ajwebb 19:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The Gadget shop was actually quite a large company - it was involved in a £100 million lawsuit --Nick123 ^(t/c) 19:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Meets WP:CORP point 1. The company or corporation has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the company itself from the link above. --Nick123 ^(t/c) 22:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

• Merge with The Entertainer (Amersham) Ltd.. Reasonable sized chain of shops, now part of a larger chain. Which may or may not itself meet WP:CORP... Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 19:31, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to The Entertainer (Amersham) Ltd. -Andrew 19:37, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. NeoJustin 20:09, December 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Nick123 Jcuk 21:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect, as above. The name is notable in the UK and a redirect should prevent the page being recreated in future. (aeropagitica) 21:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or merge. -- JJay 22:26, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

• Change vote to Strong keep per comments from NickMartin. How can this be advertising when it was posted by a high school student? That would have been clear had the nom checked NickMartin's user page. -- JJay 03:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

• Merge as per  Guy, ; Gadget Shop is/was a notable chain in the United Kingdom. Humansdorpie 23:05, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Nick123 Gilliamjf 16:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as creater of the article, I would like to point out that I am a teenage American, and have nothing to do with the company. So therefore it is invalid to say that the article was created with any sort of advertising intent. The company is noteworthy enough to have been mentioned in another article. The non-existance of a link to the company's article is what inspired me to research and create the article. NickMartin 01:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Been inside this shop, shop has also been in the media. Good enough for me. Englishrose 21:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

• Merge with The Entertainer (Amersham) Ltd. and redirect. ~MDD4696 22:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Well known retailer in the UK. Choalbaton 02:06, 8 January 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.