Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AgBASE


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The result was   delete. PhilKnight (talk) 01:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

AgBASE

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Delete blatant advertising for nn company. Vast majority of sources are just directory listings, and remainder look like advertising press releases from the company. Mayalld (talk) 06:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - the article does not demonstrate notability. Looks awfully like self-promotion, and the sources/references just do not demonstrate the assertions within the text that they are linked to. - Richard Cavell (talk) 10:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. An online farmer's market?  Huh? - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:17, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I have no idea if this is the proper way to post in here but I was unable to find another example to show the proper method, but I would like to defend my article. The sources to directories are to example the food and beverage sections within yahoo, ebay and amazon, and the inital reference is to the site the Glen Klock originally created before agbase.com, but with the same model in mind. If these references are inappropriate they can be removed. An online farmer's market is just what it sounds like, and to be fair it's not a new concept, you connect straight to the seller rather then through a middle-man website that takes a cut of the profit. I thought this concept was more commonly known but, as it appears to not be, it can be included in the article. If this page is really just going to be considered promotional, I'd like it to be explained how it is different from pages such as Massachusetts Bay Trading Company, ZipZoomfly, Winecommune.com, Warm sentiments, CheapOair and numerous other pages within Category:Online retail companies of the United States, none of which are marked for deletion or considered to be an advertisement, and yet all have more self-supporting content within the article comparitively. Gladkov Mikhail (talk) 17:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Seems to have at least minimal sourcing. DGG (talk) 18:48, 17 July 2008 (UTC)


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