Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baroon dollar


 * 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   delete. overall consensus was delete, and the keep was qualified well Nja 247 08:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Baroon dollar

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This product or concept or whatever it could be called has received no coverage in reliable sources. See this Google news archive search (all dates) and this Google web search. Bongo matic  06:51, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.  —Nick-D (talk) 10:38, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I tend to be highly biased towards wanting to keep articles on this subject, since I run a community currency system myself, and I think they're a wonderful idea! But...I can't find a single reliable source.  Many of the blogs writing about this actually make some false claims, like "The Baroon dollar will be the first local currency to be used in Australia"...this is not true as LETS have been active in Australia for some time.  I say delete.  Hopefully the system will catch on, and attract media attention and then the article can be re-created.  Perhaps, if people want to include the baroon dollar in wikipedia, it can be provided as an external link on a relevant page somewhere.  Cazort (talk) 17:26, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It already is. See Local currency and Complementary currency. Bongo  matic  02:43, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. The actual claim is that it is Australia's first paper-based and national currency backed community currency along the lines of the BerkShares and Lewes Pound who have endorsed our project. If the lack of mainstream media attention is any indication I say delete the majority of references to LETS which are either completely inactive, moribund or in their final demise. Community currencies are evolving and taking on a new form. Stay tuned! --Darren Mitchell (talk) 02:38, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you please comment on how the topic can be shown to meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines? The key to these guidelines is significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Wikipedia does not publish (nor recognize notability based on) what is TRUE, but what is verifiable in such sources. Bongo  matic  02:41, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The one reliable source I can find: says that this system was started very recently, in 2009, and this hardly establishes notability...that source would be useful for referencing a sentence about this currency in another article.  If the claim that this is Austraila's first paper-based backed community currency is true and the system grows, and attracts coverage in reliable sources, that and other facts might become verifiable, which might make this system notable, but right now they are not, unless there are some more sources that we don't know about.  Cazort (talk) 14:55, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Lacks significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. Article creation appears driven for promotional purpose as much as anything. Hyped blog commentary does not equate to notability in my view.  Murtoa (talk) 03:26, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom Nick-D (talk) 08:53, 7 May 2009 (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.