Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FeeBay

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Redirect to eBay. Golbez 05:11, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

FeeBay
Dictdef/pejorative/screed against eBay's pricing structure disguised as an encyclopedia article. Note that a Google search will find a couple of thousand references to the word; I'm not saying the term hasn't been used; rather, that it's not a legitimate encyclopedic entry, except perhaps in a list of "insulting nicknames for companies". Maybe redirect to ebayofascism or something. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 18:37, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with eBay, which is where both laurels and criticisms of that company belong (and I note that the content of this article has already been put there). -- BD Abram son thi m k 18:44, 2005 May 10 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a soapbox. No need to merge since the content has been added to eBay 's criticisms section.  Barno 20:57, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not a soapbox; no redirect unless we have a citation indication a substantial "number of its customers" actually call it that. CDC   (talk)  21:18, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, pejorative misspellings are rarely encyclopedic. Gazpacho 00:42, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to a more general page like Criticisms of eBay. The term gets 1,620 Google hits. Firebug 04:30, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. JamesMLane 05:10, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge a number of searches come up with that term - and I only removed it to a new article because it seemed the target of selective "editing," for some of the same reasons above. Its a silly name that codifies a commonly held perception about ebay as stiffing its sellers and buyers with fees. Not worthy of an article, but also not worthy of being censored. -SV|t 09:06, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * By that logic we should also have entries or at least references to Microshit (21,000 hits), Microscum (2300), Windoze (951,000)...but I'm not sure anyone who confuses editing with "censorship" will get my point. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 14:25, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * How about creating a List of pejorative nicknames for corporations and redirecting all of these derogatory terms to that page? Firebug 14:41, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Nah, too easy, and few are widespread. Delete. Radiant_* 15:26, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * REDIRECT to Ebay - a google search finds that this is a legitimately used nickname for Ebay. there should be a section of the ebay article that discusses the term feebay and why it has come into use. Kingturtle 19:23, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to EBay which does discuss this term. FreplySpang (talk) 19:26, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
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