Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Cross Sale


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 10:48, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Blue Cross Sale

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Contested prod, I place it here for your consideration. The original concern was lack of notability. Tone 14:32, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Why is this a contested prod? I see no challenge to it - it just never got actioned.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  14:59, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The creator of this article opposed the deletion on my talkpage after the article had already been deleted. --Tone 15:05, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Weak delete. Sounds marginally notable, but Google search yields a bunch of unreliable sources related to this usage, and a lot of hits related to Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association or crosses. KuyaBriBri Talk 14:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article may be accurate, but it is hardly encyclopedic and seems not to have met notability requirements. To expand on the history above, this article was removed by prod in 2006, recreated at some point, removed by prod in 2008, and then restored when the article creator made a request to the deleting admin (Tone) just now.  Seems most of the community has been perfectly happy to let this article stay dead in the past. Indrian (talk) 15:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. I don't agree that the article is unencyclopedic, it defines a marketing term and gives some of its origin and history which is certainly a suitable subject and correctly treated. Its main problem is the lack of referencing.  I found a couple of passing mentions in books, but nothing that could be used to build the article.  Everything else online is either even more tangential or not WP:RS.  In short I cannot ever see this being expanded into a substantial article, especially as its use seems to be limited to a handful of large UK stores only.  The material has a place on Wikipedia, but imo it is as part of a broader article.  If there were a general article on "sale" that would be where it should be, but quite to my astonishment no such article exists.  January sales redirects (not entirely appropriately imo) to Christmas and holiday season and the sale dab page points (for this meaning) to Discounts and allowances, again, not exactly the same thing.  My suggestion to the author, if they are willing, is to work on the article in user space, expanding it to a more general article on "sale (retail)" or some such title.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  14:59, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


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