Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. Stifle (talk) 08:21, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization
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Spam for a non-notable organisation. They are spammers by nature; look at the links in the article. It is not going to improve. The only people who could ever care about this are spammers, and should not be trusted. Wenttomowameadow (talk) 16:31, 10 August 2010 (UTC)


 * It really is spammy. Right now, there are fifteen links in the body text, all going to the same domain, and all from vague phrases like "resources", "articles", and "online courses" of the kind that SEO scum love to link back to themselves. 81.152.72.174 (talk) 16:35, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

*Delete. Spam. Chris (talk) 14:43, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Advertising. Carrite (talk) 17:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * The nominated text surely qualifies for speedy deletion as obvious advertising from top to bottom: ...a global, non-profit trade association founded in 2003 to serve the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) industry and marketing professionals engaged in it.... purpose is to provide a foundation for Search industry growth through building stronger relationships, fostering awareness, providing education, promoting the industry, generating research, and creating a better understanding of Search and its role in marketing.... Anyone with an interest in Search Engine Marketing and a desire to help further the industry can become a SEMPO member.... These courses are geared toward a wide variety of Search, marketing, public relations, sales, IT and business professionals. Because the courses are online, students learn at their own pace and can login from any computer to take the lessons and the tests.... The Institute offers online distance learning courses that will provide a breadth of Search Marketing instruction. Not sure if there are better versions in history (was apparently AfD'd in 2006) but this is all sleaze. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:20, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, still. The current version reads a lot better, but I am not sure that an announcement that it had elected a board of directors, a certificate of incorporation, or the announcement that it was offering a certificate to people who completed a class it offers, establish the long term historical notability of this organization. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 18:44, 11 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Done something radical and despammed the article to its last good version. What existed before was a short but reasonable article, which has recently been spammified by a single purpose account. It's not great, but it's much better. If you look at the previous AFD discussion there are loads of references there which could be used. Maybe we could keep and close the AFD now? Chris (talk) 17:33, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Nice cleanup job, Chris, but there is still nothing to indicate notability of this organization. Sources supplied are all self-referential. Google News provides only press releases and blogs. Glancing at a few of the references from the previous discussion, a couple mention the organization in passing, in connection with click fraud; others are trivial or unavailable. --MelanieN (talk) 23:34, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
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