Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Society Bank


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The result was   speedy keep. Unanimously proclaimed notable, meets the GNG. (non-admin closure) Guoguo12  --Talk--  14:41, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Big Society Bank

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Delete due to promotional nature. Article about a planned bank scheduled to open or begin operations in Q3 2011. Information in the article is speculative and based on events to take place in the future. Notability has not yet been established.  Cind. amuse  12:13, 13 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep - Flagship UK Coalition Government initiative with extensive coverage in multiple reliable sources. I might not agree with it politically but even I can see that it clearly meets WP:GNG. nancy  12:18, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep big society is big news for all its uselessness. MLA (talk) 12:52, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. Per the above keeps.--Epeefleche (talk) 13:28, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep (consider Merge) - obviously notable, though given the current lack of information a merge into Big Society may be more appropriate for the time being. Robofish (talk) 14:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep This is not just some bank, it is a flagship policy of the UK Government. There are over 86k GHits for this and over 400 in Google News. In addition the article was nomed for speedy deletion by Cindamuse within 2 mins of creation as a stub and AfDd within 13 minutes. This is ridiculously trigger happy - we really should have a policy that articles are given a reasonable time to respond to concerns before they are AfDd. Disclosure: I created the article, but I have no connnection at all with the bank (correction: on reflection I believe that the Cooperative Bank has an admin contract with it and I am one of the millions of members of the CoOp. So in principle if the bank made millions for the CoOp I might get 1p extra dividend or something!). NBeale (talk) 14:38, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep clearly notable. Should be expanded at some point. Nwlaw63 (talk) 16:42, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
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