Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matched betting

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The result was redirect to Betting exchange. to Betting exchange, per Col Warden. wedelete copyvio from the active encyclopedia, but not from the history unless there is a complain DGG ( talk ) 01:56, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Matched betting[edit]

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No attempt at sourcing. Reliable sources are unlikely to exist. Sumbuddi (talk) 20:45, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and Redirect to Betting exchange. The current page is very similar to http://www.matchedbetting.co.uk/guide.html and may be a copyvio or advertising. The only really reliable source I can find for the term (http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbs/wpaper/2004-5.html) suggests that it can be used as a synonym for 'betting exchange', so suggest redirecting there. Pburka (talk) 00:03, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually the term there is a different thing - that describes sites such as Betfair where bets are matched by software - one user wants to offer certain odds, and the other accepts those odds. This OTOH, describes the practice of taking a bonus from a bookmaker and then locking in a profit by betting the reverse at another site (which might be a betting exchange but need not be - the source of this article is not the matching, but the bonus). I would just Delete., if anything this belongs with bookmaker, but that doesn't include a mention of any bonuses, so it won't be very useful to redirect there either. Sumbuddi (talk) 01:11, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that what is described in this article is not a betting exchange. I'm not suggesting a merge. But there is at least one reliable source indicating that "Matched betting" is also used to describe an exchange, so I suggest a redirect once this content is deleted. Pburka (talk) 03:46, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 00:52, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 16:27, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete no redirect. The term is not notable nor unambiguous enough for a redirect. The article itself is undocumented and is a direct copy of and appears to be a copyright violation of "Loadsabets". --Bejnar (talk) 16:59, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Betting exchange. No deletion is required for this and as we don't have any content currently, I have done this. Colonel Warden (talk) 07:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect with history deleted (I've undone the redirect for now as the AfD is still ongoing). There is a chunk of copyvio (the example) but it's not a wholesale copypasta. Pcap ping 13:22, 22 February 2010 (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.