Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Escort Ireland


 * 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. If anyone wants to see what they can do with the article in user space, please just let me know. Courcelles (talk) 04:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Escort Ireland

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Escort agency of little to no notability, fails Notability Off2riorob (talk) 17:17, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete fails notability --HighKing (talk) 18:05, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to Prostitution in the Republic of Ireland  (submitted on behalf of 86.45.164.127  not necessarily my opinion Active Banana (talk) 18:46, 1 June 2010 (UTC))
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:11, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:11, 1 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Strong delete per nom, borderline speedy IMHO. ukexpat (talk) 20:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of notability, and appears to be (or was until recently) thinly veiled advert for prostitution service. Snappy (talk) 22:04, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. GregJackP (talk) 23:31, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * comment before this gets closed under "speedy", I am wondering if those claiming there is no notablility did any searching? at least half the hits on the first and second pages appear to contain data in reliable sources about this business. I am reviewing now to see which may contain useable encyclopedic content. Active Banana (talk) 00:04, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * And now a number of third party sources have been added. People may wish to revisit their positions of "non-notable". Active Banana (talk) 01:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Those sources provide verifiability not notability. This question is, is this website notable? or is it one of a squillion similar websites offering the same kind of services? Snappy (talk) 17:54, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It has been pointed out that there are a number of similarly named sites and from the news stories used as sources it is not always clear which site they are talking about. Even from the start with the page name and all text references were "Escort Ireland" when the Albright founded site is "THE NOT SAFE FOR WORK ADULT SITE Escort-Ireland"  I would not be opposed to a delete with the potential for return for whichever company is able to indicate notability (and I feel that the site that was the host of the material whcih was the basis of the first Irish Internet Libel case is notable, I just cant at this time verify which escortireland.com / escort-ireland.com /escortireland.ie etc. holds that claim.)  Active Banana (talk) 02:22, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete not notability at all, not a socialized group. ApprenticeFan  work 01:56, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable. Minima  c  ( talk ) 14:45, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep/change: The website would be an obvious candidate for deletion but for the fact that it is so frequently mentioned by journalists documenting the phenomenon of prostitution and trafficking abuses in Ireland, as well as by Ruhama, the Irish organization which, in its own words, "works on a national level with women affected by prostitution and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation". There are five mentions in the Irish Times, 42 articles in The Irish Independent, six appearances in The Examiner, five in the Sunday Business Post, five at breakingnews.ie, and even one in the Belfast Telegraph.  There are, in addition, discussions of the website in the British media, as documented by the References section of the article.  The website has been elevated to notability by journalists and appears twice, also, at the anti-trafficking site, Ruhama. Finally, the website is discussed in an international academic investigation by London Metropolitan University (page 21).  The website is not socially esteemed, but it has been, undoubtedly, the object of frequent discussion at a national level in Ireland in a wide variety of newspapers — and elsewhere — and thus it is notable.  I am inclined to keep the article on this basis but to remove the External links section so Wikipedia is neither an advertising hoarding nor unwittingly a party to human trafficking.  --O&#39;Dea (talk) 09:42, 7 June 2010 (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.