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Club Nokia

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A Nokia promotional program that closed in 2004. The program previously offered special offers to loyal customers/members. ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 00:11, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

And, what's your justification of nominating this for deletion? --KaukoHaapavesi (talk) 00:15, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

WP:NOTPROMOTION ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 01:55, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 04:46, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry but I do not see how this is 'promotion'. Club Nokia was both a loyalty programme AND software portal that closed c. 2004. This is nothing about promotion. Not to mention it is notable because of the deal with EMI (a then-huge record label) and the resulting unease with mobile carriers. --KaukoHaapavesi (talk) 12:23, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

• Keep I fail to see any logical rationale for deletion, article has a number of sources, looks like it passes WP:GNG to me. Govvy (talk) 13:44, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

• Customer loyalty rewards are pure promotion - the article even states "...provided special offers as well as paid-for ringtones, ...." The promotion ran its course and now it's no longer available - that's how promotions work. The article also states For the venue formerly known as Club Nokia, see The Novo by Microsoft. I'm not sure what the latter is about. So far, the arguments to keep are not convincing. I checked the cited sources - the 1st barely has a full paragraph about the Club Nokia promo, the second is its own archived website, the 3rd is a paragraph or 2 in an entire book. Govvy, as a reviewer, what RS convinced you it passes GNG? ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 15:56, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Thing is, the customer loyalty is just one part of it - Club Nokia was also a media portal for e.g. downloads. Now that part surely can't be about promotion. --KaukoHaapavesi (talk) 18:09, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

• Keep Seems to pass WP:GNG, was more than just a loyalty programme, the EMI deal is covered by a guardian article cited in the article. There are reliable sources. Polyamorph (talk) 18:19, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

• The EMI deal was signed with Nokia, not Club Nokia. The first sentence of the lead describes what Club Nokia was, so anything beyond that conflates Nokia the company with Club Nokia, a loyalty programme. If anything, it might be worthy of brief mention in the Nokia article because it clearly fails GNG. ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 19:01, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

• Club Nokia was the website by which said media was purchased, and it all caused a bit of a stir back in the day as other cellphone operators complained they were threatening their market, forcing them to cease sales. It does not clearly fail GNG, there are plenty of reliable sources which discuss "club Nokia" as a notable entity. This article is not well written, but that does not make it a candidate for deletion. Polyamorph (talk) 19:14, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

• Provide the link to the RS, please. ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 19:21, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

• There are plenty already linked, read them. Polyamorph (talk) 19:27, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
• Additionally (via search engine): Club Nokia Spawned a new industry for the provision of mobile content , Wall street article on Club Nokia, BBC article discussing the "new" features available via Club Nokia. RS are there, if you look. Polyamorph (talk) 19:35, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
• Actually I think it's pretty significant in the history of mobile-internet consumer purchasing, could do with a much nicer article. Polyamorph (talk) 19:39, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

• No need to get snarky - I've read the sources, and this cited source states: EMI Music Publishing and Nokia, the world's leading mobile telephone manufacturer, have signed an agreement for EMI Music Publishing's catalogue to be used for custom downloadable ring tones. And this one states, (my bold for emphasis): They also worry that with Club Nokia, its loyalty programme, Nokia is encroaching on the operators' own turf, just as Microsoft was wont to do. It's about Nokia, not Club Nokia which is nothing more than a conduit programme instituted by Nokia to promote their business. There are no independent RS that warrant Club Nokia being an independent article as it is a loyalty programme, and no matter how much we want RS to support it as a standalone, it fails WP:NOTPROMOTION. I've presented my argument - done here. ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 19:42, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
• You've provided no valid justification for deletion, the nopromotion argument does not hold - this article is promoting nothing and the website no longer exists. Actually Tesco clubcard is a loyalty programme, would you suggest we delete that page? This is a website that helped pioneer mobile internet consumer purchasing, something which is taken for granted now. When you ask for sources and people provide them please read them. Polyamorph (talk) 19:51, 23 October 2018 (UTC)