Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VirginXL

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was merge and redirect to Virgin Mobile USA. —Korath (Talk) 22:36, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] VirginXL

Advertising. Author also created *MTV, listed below. --Plek 11:29, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, not advertising, product from notable company. Kappa 11:55, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Longhair 12:00, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, doesn't read like advertising to me, notable company. Nick04 13:23, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Virgin Mobile, as it is one of their many services. Radiant! 10:24, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Doesn't merit a separate article and shouldn't be a redirect. VirginXL is a marketing name for the faster of two data services offered by Virgin Mobile USA, currently accessible from only one phone. The other data service is VirginXtras, which also doesn't merit a separate article. Virgin Mobile USA itself is only a one paragraph article. There is also List of Virgin Mobile USA phones. Virgin Mobile, which describes the British parent company, is only one paragraph too. Someone has gone to town creating a whole series of short one paragraph articles on Virgin Mobile. All the content in all of these articles would be no more than 3 paragraphs total, which would say little more than that Virgin Group has started a cell phone service in the UK, US, and Australia, in partnership with various networks and content providers, like MTV. Is there a prize or something for upping the article count? --BM 13:15, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Second choice merge redir. Mostly agree with what User:BM says, except that leaving redirs at all these one-offs reduces chances of re-creation of these articles. Same for VirginXtras--keep it all in the same article until size constraints dictate otherwise. Artificially upping article count is NOT what Wikipedia is about. I try to assume good faith, but the anon contrib's contribs to date are exclusively to promote Virgin Mobile. Hopefully this is just a case of someone trying to "share" something they recently decided was a 'good deal'. Niteowlneils 13:53, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The Recycling Troll 09:57, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect or delete outright. Obvious attempt to hijack Wikipedia for advertsing and promotion. --Calton 00:37, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect. Oh look, someone has - David Gerard 00:22, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.