Talk:Vanquis Bank

Does this article read like an advert? Kevinbrighton (talk) 06:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

This article has very strong signs of being an advert and the work of a reputation management company/astroturfing. The history shows a concerted effort over a long period of time to 'manage' this page to keep it overwhelmingly positive despite much wider criticism of the company online. As the Wikipedia article has very high prominence in the Google results, it seems this could be a well organized attempt to bury less complimentary articles much further down the results list. Considerable work is needed to give a more balanced (and therefore encycopedic) article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.12.6.76 (talk) 11:40, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Vanquis bank are actively editing this page (e.g. IP 81.145.34.66) and maintianing it in an advetising format. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.12.6.76 (talk) 14:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

For clarity, WHOIS for 81.145.34.66 shows :

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% Information related to '81.145.34.64 - 81.145.34.79'

inetnum:       81.145.34.64 - 81.145.34.79 netname:       VANQUIS descr:         FTIP003270004 Vanquis Bank country:       GB admin-c:        DB5280-RIPE tech-c:        DB5280-RIPE status:        ASSIGNED PA mnt-by:         BTNET-MNT mnt-lower:     BTNET-MNT mnt-routes:    BTNET-MNT remarks:       Please send abuse notification to abuse@bt.net source:        RIPE # Filtered  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.12.6.76 (talk) 14:47, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion added - this page seems to be the work of the subject and from the edit history seems to be jealously guarded by them too (reverts etc). Wikipedia is not the place for Vanquis or anyone else to do this sort of thing and it is explicitly one of the criteria listed for deletion.

Vanquis are also perfectly well covered in the parent company (Provident) article so there seems no need to duplicate them here or give them a page - any properly encyclopedic content could be reasonably added to the parent company article. 87.194.185.203 (talk) 16:56, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

They are no longer a subsidiary.
They are now the parent bank. And the group has changed name to the Vanquis Banking Group 109.181.117.35 (talk) 16:50, 16 March 2023 (UTC)