Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Customer centric selling


 * 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. Mr.Z-man 01:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Customer centric selling

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A disputed prod, and speedied a number of times as spam, under various spellings/hyphenations. The initial Google hits all lead to a commercial organization which has copyrighted this phrase and uses it to label a commercial product; I suggest this is a WP:COATRACK for WP:SPAM, since there are no citations that I can locate that are anything other than a reference to this commercial product. Accounting4Taste: talk 22:45, 10 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep. I was one initially involved in the tagging for speedy deletions, and the initial articles did indeed link to this company. The creator came back with "Customer centric" (without the external links). I found that the term does seems to be a generally used term / a term used by other companies(eg here) and probably worthy of inclusion - certainly at least until debated here at AfD. I also thought the article title "customer centric" to be too vague and suggested moving it back to "customer centric selling". This has now been done but may have been bad advice for now it is the company name again. Perhaps "customer centric (marketing)" would be better. Anyone familiar with the company already might use WP to research them and come to this article, but with no external links the reverse should not be true. If the article is kept we should keep an eye on it to ensure the links do not return. Ros0709 (talk) 23:01, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unless this has been the subject of serious publications or mainstream media. There's an endless stream of buzzwords and non notable neologisms coming from marketing and managerial methods. Equendil Talk 23:10, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I of course meant to say Take a proactive course and get the article offline utilizing an administrator centric approach based on the content management workflow. Equendil Talk 23:36, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Whether or not a proper article could be written on the subject, the existing text is a breathless essay that would not be all that helpful to someone writing a better one.  The fact that this phrase has been trademarked also raises a strong suspicion of spam. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:00, 11 September 2008 (UTC)


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