Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Initial license offering


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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 02:49, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Initial license offering

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"ILO"s are not an actual financial instrument, they are an fictional instrument which are actually a pyramid scheme. This page should be deleted. There is not a single legitimate reference on the page!! Iloisfraud (talk) 19:49, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - lacking reliable sourcing, there is no evidence this exists legally. Bearian (talk) 19:57, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - Just because it is used in schemes does not make in unnoteable. CLCStudent (talk) 20:10, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:24, 8 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment, does this - "National Academy of Athletics (NAofA) launches an initial License offering (ILO)" show its a thing (note: i am not saying that it is notable)? Coolabahapple (talk) 12:27, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - there are literally no relevant results for this phrase (with quotes) on Google Scholar (and one irrelevant result). I cannot find any significant coverage in a more general search either. It certainly feels very pyramid scheme-y, and sets off many of the same warning flags, but judgement as a "scheme" or such is outside the purview of AfD - all that matters is the lack of significant coverage in reliable sources. it is definitely a thing that exists, in the sense of there are companies that do it, but that's a matter of WP:V, not WP:N. MarginalCost (talk) 13:23, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:30, 8 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment Does the fact that the entire article is unreferenced and that the page's description of an "ILO" is clearly fiction not matter at wikipedia? There is no evidence that "ILO"s are actually an extant financial instrument. Every website that makes reference to an "ILO" is low grade and skin deep, often filled with boilerplate and lorem ipsum when you get 2 or 3 links deep. "ILO"s are a fiction used to defraud people.
 * Delete whether or not it exists, the current article is promoting an unlicensed financial instrument and does not rely on reliable sources. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 19:58, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


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