Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bel.com

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 of the debate was delete. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 02:04, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Bel.com

Vanity page. Ritchy 19:43, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

And a little link spamming too. Plus the author removed the Afd notice,allthe more reason to delete it Malcolm Farmer 19:48, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, delete it. Themusicking 19:53, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I think this page is trying to add a company's history/information that has worked heavily in the Northeast region, why would anyone think it's a vanity page? There's other pages that are far more self absorbed (like musician pages?) What is the AFD notice?

The page reads like a vanity bio of Joseph Dombroski. It includes information irrelevant to the company, like Dombroski's paper routes and college major. Furthermore, the second-to-last line is a publicity slogan for the company. None of this belongs in Wikipedia. Ritchy 20:04, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thinly veiled advertisement at best. Themusicking 20:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

This is the same company description that is published in literature about the company worldwide. The point that is being missed is the information at the beginning is to describe how this company was started 30 years ago by a thirteen year old boy. Also, I don't even think Joseph Dombroski knows about this particular posting. Also, there is no sign of the company's slogan (which there is none in existance anyway) in the writing. So is every other company and artist on this website supposed to delete their trademarks and factual information? I thought that was Wikipedia was about. Educate yourself and read some other articles of other companies and musicians.

One of these people that want to delete should update it to fill the requirements, this company is very well known out in Delaware.

Fine, let me spell it out for you. The fact some 13 year old kid had a paper route is not encyclopaedia material. Neither is the reputation he built up in his neighbourhood repairing TVs. Nor the fact he had an "interest in sound", or that he later went to college... in fact, there is no encyclopaedia-worthy material in the first three paragraphs of the article. The next two paragraphs are an advertisement. They too will have to go, as Wikipedia is not an advertisement website. The last line "For more info..." should be in an "External links" section, but aside from this I have no problem with it in and of itself. However, given that we just deleted everything else on the page, that line is now the only thing on the page. Wikipedia is not a link repository. Thus, it'll have to go. Now, if you want to know how to write a real company page on Wikipedia, I suggest you drop the company publicity listing you're reading and check company pages on Wikipedia. Take whichever company you'd like to learn more about - the bigger the company, the better, as it means more people will have gone over the page and fixed it. Once you've read, say, a dozen or so pages, and you know complete, factual, NPOV corporate pages are written in Wikipedia, feel free to rewrite this thing. Ritchy 20:49, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

So Ritchy has volunteered to revise this page?

I did, by putting the AfD on it. Also, please sign your messages by typing ~~~~ Ritchy 21:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I think this can grow, if the experienced users here could reformat and add the facts they know into the actual article in addition to their comments here,that would be helpful.209.137.175.3 21:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete not sure what this is nominally, but let's try nn, promo, badvertisement adjectivally. Eusebeus 23:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Eusebeus -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 04:58, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete advert. This is not, however, a support of slapping a G4 repost speedy on any recreation of this article. Stifle 16:40, 13 January 2006 (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.