Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Free Bets
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- 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. The subject does not meet the guidelines for inclusion in the encyclopedia. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:05, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Entirely unnotable online gambling website. No independant coverage that is not either press release or affiliate oriented. It apears to have payed to sponsor a horse race but even that does not get the company covered, though the race itself shows up on sites listing results of all horse races. Additionally WP:SPA and WP:COI seem pretty clearly involved here. (And finally "free bets" is is an attempt by a minor entity to co-opt the common phrase, it should at least be renamed Freebets.co.uk. 2005 (talk) 23:36, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Neutral though I totally disagree with the moving, if this article remains. The name of the company is "Free Bets", so that's what the article should be called. The only other appearance of the phrase "free bets" is a redirect to the Online casino article, which mentions the phrase once in non-descriptive passing. Hence, there's no name conflict. Your reason for moving — that they're shoe-horning a "common phrase" — just seems a fickle explanation.
- The reason I went neutral is that, although the article has little independent coverage (some results in Google News and such show that it's "around"), it has little independent coverage. Greg Tyler (t • c) 00:12, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- None of the Google news coverage is about the company. Those are just mentions of a horse race they sponsor. 2005 (talk) 01:47, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:32, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Insufficient notability. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:23, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Not notable. Niteshift36 (talk) 05:30, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete I don't see a clause under WP:CORP that would support keeping this article. Gambling businesses are not inherently notable, and this case seems to have no notable features. Johnuniq (talk) 10:25, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- 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.