Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boso (website)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 19:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Boso (website)
Nomination for deletion Encyclopedically non-notable student internet classifieds startup launched in 2005. Fails WP:WEB, WP:CORP, WP:SPAM. There are a couple of press articles on the website - one a press release from Oxford University press office (this is not an independent or reliable source, given that the startup is supported by the Oxford University Entrepreneurs Society) and the other a trival puff piece in the Times Online (the Oxbridge Old Boy Network in action - hurray. Or okay, someone on the team had some success with media relations). Its currently miscategorized, I think, as an online auction site (its just classified ads as far as I can see) - in any case, the claim that its the first online marketplace for students is highly dubious. I was happily buying and selling academic books and other student items on my university's for-sale usenet newsgroup back in the 1990s, as many other people were (I could take a gander at other universities' newsgroup classifieds too). Best of luck to the team, but currently this website's no Facebook.com by a long chalk (Launched 1 and half years ago, and has only supported 1,467 transactions or about 3 a day; Alexa ranking of ~662,634 for the .com domain or ~4,310,107 for the co.uk domain)) Bwithh 18:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I foresee a "we were filmed by a Channel 4 documentary" defence coming up. That's great, but just to point out that the entry criteria for that TV series were quite a bit less than what's required for Wikipedia. Not an encyclopedically notable TV series in any case. Bwithh 19:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Mitaphane talk 04:33, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. RickReinckens 06:44, 28 September 2006 (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.