Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Body by Vi Challenge


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 03:56, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Body by Vi Challenge

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A transparent attempt to get two articles when there's barely enough for one. Unaccountably accepted from AfC, despite being a wholly promotional article with no notability separate from that of the company. It's already mentioned in the ViSalus article, I think sufficiently, but an alternative might possibly be a merge, since so many of the references for the two are identical. Of the references listed in the article: (:1) The Forbes article is about the founder of the company and merely mentions the Challenge (2) The Men';s Fitness article is primarily about Humphries, and incidentally mentions the challenge among other information concerning his chosen diet & his own promotional stunts (3) from the Washington Times is first of all primarily about the company and second is not a news item but a blog:   "this is the Communities at WashingtonTimes.com. Individual contributors are responsible for their content, which is not edited by The Washington Times." (4) CNN Money is about the founder  (5) is PR, (6}, (7) & (8) are the company's own website.   DGG ( talk ) 02:01, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to ViSalus. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:28, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I apologize if the page appeared promotional. The reason I submitted it through the AFC was because I was trying to protect against exactly that. During the creation stage, I sought advise from several wiki editors via the IRC channel and they assured me the Sandbox article was okay. I really do apologize. In line with DGG's suggestion, I've transferred some of the content of the Challenge program to the VISalus page. Given DGG's concern, this addition is mostly made up of the program's early history with nothing about it nutrition. I hope this was okay. I added that section because I thought it was considered normal as evident on other brand loss pages such as Slim fast and Special K. Still, I defer to your obvious experience and familiarity with Wiki rules. Please let me know if I've made any mistakes and how I can better serve.

Kind Regards Carlang (talk) 10:04, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:46, 6 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment I've just blocked Carlang as an advertising-only account. Nick-D (talk) 23:24, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete As this appears to have been created as an advertisement for the company. Nick-D (talk) 02:34, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete -- To call this spam would be an insult to spam. I agree with the charge that this is blatantly promotional and I also agree with the user block. The Body by Vi Challenege is already covered in the Vislaus article in one sentence and that's all it merits, at most. Rhode Island Red (talk) 21:52, 11 November 2012 (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.