Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Code of Conduct (affiliate marketing)

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The result was redirect to affiliate marketing. MBisanz ^talk 21:22, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Code of Conduct (affiliate marketing)[edit]

Article contains no references to recognizable, independent, third-party sources that meet WP:RS, and a variety of searches brings up nothing that I could use to help establish this article's notability. While I understand that certain industries do not receive mainstream media attention, there is a certain standard that needs to be met, especially for potentially contentious subjects such as affiliate marketing, and the self-serving sources used for this article just do not cut it as legitimate references. Flowanda | Talk 23:56, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Aside from being blatant advertising of no encyclopedic value whatsoever (perhaps deserving of a short blurb on the involved companies' articles), I have a feeling this could be used to legitimize arguments. "Hey it's on Wikipedia". §FreeRangeFrog 00:08, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete basically this only serves to promote a code which has no current notability (or no evidence for any is presented anyway --BozMo talk 08:04, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would trim this down drastically and merge with affiliate marketing. Not enough notability for this to have its own article. — LinguistAtLarge • Talk 19:28, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to affiliate marketing after cutting out advertisements. ¿SFGiДnts! ^{¿Complain! ¿Analyze! ¿Review!} 16:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - clearly promotional. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:07, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge, as the article did receive enough attention to become a good article nominee. While you can remove some non-encyclopediatic information (i.e. information about the protocol for affilate marketing, or material from interested sites), there is still a significant chance the article can be written as a normal article without promotional information. The article may be a little short, and if there isn't additional information, can be merged into Affiliate_marketing#Past_and_current_issues. Alternativly, text from that article can be pulled onto this page, since the "main article" is about 41KB long.--Sigma 7 (talk) 19:42, 16 February 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.