Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Travelzoo (2nd nomination)

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The result was Snow Keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:42, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Travelzoo[edit]

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No independent sources, this has been flagged since July 2011 as sourced only to the company's own website. Reads like an advertisement. The lack of outside sources goes back beyond the original AfD in 2005 to the article's creation in 2004. That's an eternity for a WP:CORP with no independent sources online. I'm not saying that there can't be a valid article on this topic, only that this piece of advertising isn't it. K7L (talk) 18:56, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Qualified keep. It certainly seems to be a notabile company. A quick book search reveals a few sources about the company itself ([1][2][3]) as well as some attention paid to their odd "free shares" promotion ([4][5]), plus plenty of followup (both about the company and its sometimes colorful stock history) in periodicals. The current article doesn't have any of those things (and is basically a promotional piece), but this is WP:HEYable. I've bailed more than a few articles out of the AFD dock, but I have got to pass the torch to someone else on this one; I have two articles in my personal incubator right now, and a week-long trip-mandated Wikibreak coming up fast, which won't end until after this AFD closes. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 21:10, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, because it is a notable company, listed on the Nasdaq, but it definitely needs work. --Funandtrvl (talk) 16:40, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, significant coverage in secondary sources. Also, WP:NOTCLEANUP. — Cirt (talk) 02:23, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Publicly traded companies are all pretty much notable because there will be secondary sources covering them. Here is some (negative) press at Business Insider. As a Bloomberg publication, that is an RS for economic news. The simplest really is to go to "finance.yahoo.com", type TZOO (their stock-ticker symbol) at the "Get Quotes" box, and look at the "Headlines" section. You see coverage in "Investor's Business Daily" (an influential business weekly), Forbes and others. Also look at the stock price chart. The company's stock went up 15-fold in the first 3 years, crashed back to the original value, went up again 15-fold by 2011 and fell to 1/4th by 2012. That would have generated a lot of chatter in the business world, which can be found by searching deeper in the "Headlines" section on the Yahoo quotes page. Churn and change (talk) 04:16, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:34, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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