Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Churchill Awards


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The result was speedy delete. G11, clearly promotion of the firm.  DGG ( talk ) 02:31, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Churchill Awards

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Fails WP:GNG, lacking "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject": the Daily Telegraph source is not independent (the award was set up "in association with The Telegraph"), the Dorset Chamber of Commerce source is a copypasted press release and the Newmarket Journal and Portsmouth News are brief "local man wins award" local news stories which say little about the awards themselves. McGeddon (talk) 09:11, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Doesn't the association with a major British newspaper rather undercut your argument that the award is just from "some damned property developer", as you said in this discussion? BMK (talk) 00:32, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I think that comment might have been mine, . The context was "there's no possible reason for us to publicise some damned property developer (who doesn't even have a WP article) here". This page was created by an obvious COI/paid editor (assuming WP:REALNAME, that is), expanded by another. We don't tolerate WP:promotion of any kind here, and we strongly discourage COI editing. In practice, that discouragement often takes the form of reverting/undoing COI edits, which is, I believe, what we should do in this case – WP:TNT. On the same theme, I've declined Draft:Churchill Retirement Living as an advertisement; it should probably be deleted as one. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:37, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry for that error. BMK (talk) 15:11, 15 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete, as per nom. Just one quality reference, not in theThe Daily Telegraph, might sway me. But I can find none. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:23, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. It seems these are, according to our article and the Daily Telegraph, the "Churchill Retirement Awards" (2 hits on Google, 0 hits on Google news). They are not the Churchill Awards awarded by the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley (which isn't the Churchill Club); I don't see any indication that those are notable either. Since the Telegraph has lent its name to this rather sordid exercise in promotion, this topic could perhaps be mentioned in our article on that paper. The primary topic for "Churchill awards" is of course the honours received by Winston Churchill. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:22, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:33, 15 May 2016 (UTC)


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