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Keolis / SNCF West Coast

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Non Notable Company formed for the purpose of bidding for a franchise which it failed to win. Only passing mentions in sources and only temporary coverage not permanent notability. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 21:32, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages because they are also shell companies formed as part of the bidding process with only trivial mentions in sources:

Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 21:38, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:30, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:31, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:31, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge or redirect all to InterCity West Coast, which directly deals with the award of this franchise. Not much you can say other their bid existing, but they are all plausible search terms. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 09:10, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, I considered whether they were plausible redirects before suggesting deletion; Google Insight shows no searches for any of these companies. Our own web traffic statistics show little activity beyond web crawler for these articles (except yesterday when all spiked due to my tagging) - Searching is more likely to be directed either at the franchise or at the relevant parent company rather than at any of these shell companies. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 13:51, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Notability is not temporary. There is nothing worth merging and now that the usefulness of these entities is past they will be unlikely search terms as far as our general readership are concerned. Anyone with a specialist interest in finance and franchises will be looking to other specialist sources and they will get more from a google search anyway.--Charles (talk) 14:06, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]