Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Airparks


 * 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   merge to Holiday Extras.  MBisanz  talk 03:09, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Airparks

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Airport offsite parking operator that has no notability independent of its parent company, Holiday Extras. All references are travel industry sites. Fails WP:NOTTRAVEL, WP:ADVERT. I tried re-wording to remove advert tone but there is little to no encyclopedic content worth salvaging. KuyaBriBri Talk 14:34, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related page because it is another non-notable operation of the same parent company written with a similar WP:TRAVEL tone:
 * KuyaBriBri Talk 14:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Better Choice Parking (BCP) is independent of Holiday Extras and has a longer history that its parent company. A noteworthy and recognisable brand in the UK, worth keeping. Jonclarke84 (talk) 14:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect Airparks to Airpark. No non-trivial reliable sources about this topic. Fails WP:V. Likely search term. -Atmoz (talk) 16:08, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Airparks and Airpark are completely unrelated and a redirect would not be appropriate.Petland1 (talk) 08:48, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The article may be unrelated, but Airparks is also the plural form of Airpark. - Mgm|(talk) 11:34, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 00:08, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually Airparks is not the plural form of Airpark in this context. Airpark is a way of parking airplanes at houses in the USA. Airparks is a British brand of car parks. It can be confusing and a redirect would only serve to exacerbate the confusion. Petland1 (talk) 14:09, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * When you make a redirect, the current article is no longer the context. The same would apply if I made a redirect out of the article of a non-notable dog called Apples and redirected it to the fruit. Obviously the dog has nothing to do with the fruit, but the redirect would still be suitable, because there'd be no connection made between the two. (Furthermore, the history can be deleted before the redirect is made and the links related to the company can be removed to further enforce this). Do you know an alternative plural for the word Airpark? - Mgm|(talk) 10:01, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * The key phrase there is "non-notable". If the article in question isn't notable then yes, you're correct. However Airparks is a recognised brand in the UK and unknown in the USA. I think Airparks has enough notability in the UK to be included on Wikipedia (an international site). See National_Car_Parks as an example. Petland1 (talk) 13:40, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  --  I 'mperator 01:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete pretty much per nom. All promotional with no encyclopedic material.  Them  From  Space  19:57, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge Airparks and Better choice parking into Holiday Extras, with redirects. For rationales see below - Pointillist (talk) 23:26, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * They are different brands of one corporate group:
 * Holiday Extras press release (here) says they are.
 * Search of Companies House Webcheck service shows BCP Limited (Company No. 00781158) and Holiday Extras Limited (Company No. 01693250) share the same registered office. The name Better Choice Parking is not registered.
 * The individual brands are non-notable and appear to be renamed from time to time, to suit the marketing needs of the parent.
 * One editor is linked to both BCP and Holiday Extras:
 * contributed to both the Holiday Extras and Better choice parking articles but now says BCP "is independent of Holiday Extras".
 * Jonclarke84 matches the name of Holiday Extras' web copywriter Jon Clarke.
 * Holiday Extras' expertise in affiliate/viral marketing means it is difficult for editors to check for reliability of sources and conflicts of interest, so readers are likely to be mislead if we allow separate articles for all their sub-brands:
 * Holiday Extras seems to own a large number of sites that may indirectly link back to Wikipeia editors, e.g. Show-and-Stay is owned by Holiday Extras and has articles by "Tony Hill" whose name is similar to user who created the original Holiday extras article.
 * Editors have cited paid editorial in comparison shopping sites (e.g. travelsupermarket.com) as reliable sources for statements.
 * Jon Clarke says "part of my job" is to place articles "via Article Marketer to generate backlinks to our landing pages".
 * DomainTools links their airparks and BCP brands, e.g. the record for Holidayextras.co.uk links to the record for Airparks.co.uk which links to the parkbcp.co.uk and bcponline.co.uk records.
 * Holiday Extras pays commission on apparently third party brands (e.g. here).


 * 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.