Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irish companies that failed to pass on 2011 VAT reduction


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The result was   delete. v/r - TP 19:24, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Irish companies that failed to pass on 2011 VAT reduction

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Unexceptional list that is unlikely ever to be completed. Could also be construed as an attack on the businesses listed in it. NtheP (talk) 16:49, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete There is only one source, and that states it's conclusions are "according to an informal survey". So, the current title is actually misleading, since it should be Irish companies that supposedly failed to pass on 2011 VAT reduction according to an informal survey. Is there data available to create an appropriate article with this title? I think not, because it can never be proved that a failure to cut prices by the amount of a sales tax reduction is due to companies failing to pass on that reduction. Companies raise their prices all the time for all sorts of reasons, and such a price rise may coincide with a tax reduction in some instances. You can only ever make allegations about such a thing, and article listing allegations is not going to be encyclopaedic.--Pontificalibus (talk) 17:27, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - you're understating it, it's Four percent of the Irish companies that supposedly failed to pass on 2011 VAT reduction within one day of that reduction according to an informal survey. Non-encyclopedic, with little hope of it becoming so. Article is based entirely on one sentence of one article, bringing up WP:GNG questions. --Nat Gertler (talk) 19:17, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, this doesn't seem to be a notable topic for a list, it probably isn't verifiable, and I can't find an article about the VAT reduction that it could be merged to. If there is enough coverage for this, the information could be added to the companies' articles. Peter E. James (talk) 18:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 14:31, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete per Pont... Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:37, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. May have qualified for speedy. Szzuk (talk) 21:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * comment. There is no speedy deletion criterion that would apply to this article, so it does not and would not have qualified for speedy deletion. Thryduulf (talk) 23:42, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * CSD:G13 applies. Szzuk (talk) 10:19, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Please read the WP:CSD policy page. It clearly states that the explicitly listed criterion are the only ones where pages may be speedily deleted. "Garbage" is not so listed and any administrator speedily deleting any page using that reason would be leaving themselves open to sanction. Thryduulf (talk) 14:16, 4 August 2011 (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.