Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/"social selling"

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. JohnCD (talk) 15:30, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

social selling[edit]

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Non notable neologism, references notwithstanding. Fiddle Faddle 07:27, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 08:27, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Procedural Note - there are social selling and "social selling" (note the quotes) that are essentially identical. Whatever decision comes of one should apply to the other, and if for some reason there is a keep, one should be redirected to the other. Chris857 (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That is being handled procedurally. The newer is a copy and paste move of the older after the AfD was started, perhaps to bypass it, and has been proposed for speedy deletion as such. Fiddle Faddle 16:38, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edits now merged to social selling. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:05, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

With that said, I vote Delete or Redirect to social media marketing. This blog? from Forbes (June 2013) indicates that "social selling" is a very recent neologism, and I can only find blogs discussing this topic. It does not seem fundamentally different from a form of marketing in a social media platform. Chris857 (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Ill-referenced neologism. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:05, 2 August 2013 (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.