Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Personal commuting vehicle (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. Spartaz Humbug! 03:44, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Personal commuting vehicle
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Badly written and poorly referenced article written around an ill-defined category not recognised within the industry. List of vehicles (which I deleted but am happy to see reinstated if it shows how worthless the article is) were all prototypes, or out of production. Biker Biker (talk) 12:01, 14 December 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 00:18, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * tells us that there are such things as single-occupant vehicles and privately owned vehicles/privately operated vehicles. It mentions nothing such as this.  Searching, I can find no sources that define any such category as this.  (Be aware that there's a vehicle manufacturer that has used this as a brand name.  That doesn't define a category.  There was a bunch of brand names listed in the last AFD discussion, too.  They aren't actual names for a category.)  Reading the sources cited in the article, I see exactly one that even mentions this category.  The others are talking about vehicle occupancy and high-occupancy vehicles.  The one cited source that talks about this class refers the reader, at the bottom of the page, to Wikipedia for the definition of the concept, and is clearly circular.  This is simply not a concept that exists outwith Wikipedia.  It's saddening to see that the actual concepts that do exist, and that the sources document, are, as can be seen here, still redlinked after all of this time.  You'd think that we'd have an expansion of POV, wouldn't you? Delete.  Uncle G (talk) 12:51, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  -- Jclemens-public (talk) 18:05, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  -- Jclemens-public (talk) 18:05, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Merge with microcar which seems to be much the same topic. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:44, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, looks like advocacy / OR. It seems that the article was written by the same person who wrote the website. Which, in turn, refers readers back to the wikipedia article. Hooray for circular references! If you stripped out that, there's nothing substantial left about PCVs - not even a definition. bobrayner (talk) 16:31, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect to microcar (or delete as second option). The term does seem to exist, though it's fairly rare (three google news hits, one in Italian), but there's nothing in the article worth merging.  Chick Bowen 03:06, 29 December 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.