Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yesmoke


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 23:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Yesmoke

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Advertisement for defiant cigarette smugglers or something; ""Yesmoke’s project goes well beyond competition against other producers. It is a battleship ready to direct all its resources to the financial downfall of the cigarette manufacturing cartel. The final objective is to extirpate the Big Tobacco blister from society". Orange Mike   &#x007C;   Talk  23:04, 23 February 2009 (UTC) 
 * Comment removed advert-like statements. Remaining portions of the article can easily be corrected or updated to be referenced. --Sigma 7 (talk) 05:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - even after Sigma 7's edits, this article still has major problems: 1) it is still promotional in the lede; 2) it is a content fork; and 3) it is a linkfarm. The company's (apparent) notability arises, not because of its business or its product, but because of its legal run-ins with Phillip Morris and the U.S. Government (the two cases deserve standalone articles instead of having this). B.Wind (talk) 19:07, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Update: Two of the blogspam links were replaced with the original source, and the three others were removed since I couldn't verify them. My work here is done. --Sigma 7 (talk) 17:36, 3 March 2009 (UTC)


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--"Advertisement for defiant cigarette smugglers or something"-- As usual, the problem for Yesmoke is to be considered not "politically correct", that you call it "defiant", or "something". What do you mean? Yesmoke is not a "cigarette smuggler", and there are not any sentence saying it. On the other hand, is "Big Tobacco" the real smuggler, with a lot of sentences worldwide, that they have never paid (in Italy it is about 60 billions euro). Besides, the Wikipedia pages of Big Tobacco companies and brands are a total advertisement, with images of the packs, description of all the styles, images of the packs in the media etc. There is even the list and the links of all movies advertising the Lucky Strike brand, just for an example. In these pages you can read a list of slogans, sponsorships of formula 1, with photos of the car racing and list of pilots. To cancel Yesmoke page because it is "advertising" is even funny. --"The final objective is to extirpate the Big Tobacco blister from society".-- This is the true, the company exist to "extirpate Big Tobacco blister from the society" - Do you believe that this is not "politically correct"? Have you seen the Yesmoke site? Have you seen that it is based on true information about the Big Tobacco activity in the world, first of all in Italy? The yesmoke page on Wikipedia is not an advertising, and even do not show the pack. If you believe that this is an advertising, please remove immediately all the advertising pages of the Big Tobacco companies. Why you take care only of Yesmoke?