Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Growshop (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 03:57, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Growshop
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Growshop is a brand name and a Dutch term; there is no evidence of notability for the term in English common use apart from as a brand name and so this article fails wp:MADEUP. There are many articles in Google News using the word "Grow Shop" but this is invariably for "Grow Shop Limited", a company name or articles in Dutch rather than English (example search for most recent articles ). I recommend deletion rather than merge to Smart shop to avoid any confusion about the validity of this term. There has been some further editing since the last AFD and associated discussion on the article talk page but no valid sources have been found or provided. Note about last AFD: this closed on 2 September 2009 with a decision to redirect at which point a sysop blanked the page but it was recreated 2 days later by an anon IP. —Ash (talk) 11:32, 9 September 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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Delete This article violates WP:NOTE in that it fails to demonstrate how its subject is in any way different from the existing article headshop. IMO if we simply add the words "and cultivation" after the word "consumption" to the first line in the headshop article, we're basically on the way to covering off the same territory, without a need for this article to exist at all. If the editor who created (and continues to support) the existence of the growshop article is willing to abandon it to deletion and focus on editing and improving the headshop article, perhaps a lot of the current apparent animosity can be set aside. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 16:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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