Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Car shipping


 * 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   KEEP (no consensus). TigerShark (talk) 08:34, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Car shipping

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This article appears to have been created with good intention but is problematic in that the references which it contains take you straight to commerical sites with forms to provide quotes and take orders. Thus, deliberately or not, the article is spam. The author claims these are the best references to be found, which suggests a distinct lack of notability. There's discussion on the talk page. This subject, pruned somewhat, would seem to make a sensible new section to the car article. Ros0709 (talk) 09:51, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Week Delete - was going to suggest a rename when I looked at this article earlier, contents don't seem to be really about subject title. As 'car shipping' would logically include all sorts of transportation of cars including from manufacturer to dealer, attempting to define it as consumer level only seems to be an excursion into WP:Original Research.  It's really attempting to deal with 'Online car sales' and 'Car delivery services' but still lacks independent reliable sources for those topics. -Hunting dog (talk) 11:57, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - The article reminds me a little of the deleted article Online car shopping (see the AfD debate). This article has the attributes of a how-to guide (something Wikipedia is not), as highlighted by the inclusion of second-person pronouns, and it is focused on a particular commercial activity. Unlike the other article it is sourced, but the sources are essentially how-to guides. More significantly, if I were attempting to write an article about the shipping of cars, I would not write this article. Instead, I would want to write about the process of shipping cars from manufacturers to dealers (by ship, rail, and truck), not about how to arrange transport of an individual car to a private buyer. --Orlady (talk) 16:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep just improve it,and adjust the title on the basis of discussing on the talk p[age. -remote delivery? or ? LETSCHANGETHETITLE is not a reason for deletion.  And if someone wants to write an article about shipping of cars to retailers, a that's a perfectly good topic, but that does not require deleting this one. First time I can remember seeing the argument: ANOTHERARTICLEDOESNTEXIST. DGG (talk) 20:34, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Just improve the article. Car shipping is a common aspect of everyday urban life. Tezkag72 (talk) 20:48, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Its commonness makes it notable. --Oakshade (talk) 05:35, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - its certainly a popular thing to attempt to spam links for services - see another new article on subject at Auto Transport - any ideas what would be the better title? We should at least only have one... -Hunting dog (talk) 07:10, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I redirected that article to this one. Good find. Ros0709 (talk) 07:55, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. Once stripped of problematic wording and content, leaving only usable neutral and factual content, it barely consists of less than a section's worth of content, easily coverable in car. It is in such bad shape there is nothing usable to copy-paste merge, it's a complete rewrite job. MickMacNee (talk) 16:23, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep seems like a notable subtopic of the automative and shipping industry articles. A million if not billion dollar industry. Article needs improvement but that alone isn't a reason to delete. --Rividian (talk) 20:31, 28 July 2008 (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.