Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cariris (footwear)

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cariris (footwear)

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Spammy article about a brand of footwear. Googling is tricky, given that the brand is named after the Cariris, who live in the area where the company is based. But adding "INBOP" to the search string returns nothing in Google News. Delete. Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 21:31, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment You might find it useful to check out the history of Cariris. I came across this article which had repeatedly been switched between an article about the footwear and an article about the Brazilian tribe, and sometimes both together (diff, diff, diff, diff, diff and diff). I simply thought enough was enough and that a better solution was to create a disambiguation page and let both articles be improved without this content dispute continuing. Astronaut (talk) 10:15, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Reply: Here is the first edit that turned the article from one about the footwear into one about the indian tribe. As you can see, this edit is more than one year old, and there is not much we can do about it now. However, I don't see a single revision that is about the footwear and that shows this brand merits inclusion. -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 12:14, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I do know the edit that introduced the tribe text is over a year old, but since then several edits reintroduced the footwear to the article (admittedly with very similar wording to previous versions) - I listed the diffs above. TBH, I too see little merit in the footwear article; but I still think it was worthwhile splitting the two so both could be improved or deleted on their own merits. Astronaut (talk) 13:32, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Astronaut, I do see what you are trying to do here: there's been a lot of edit warring on Cariris between the footwear and Indian factions. Splitting the content in two is a good way to deal with that. But having searched a lot for sources myself (including in Portuguese, I just can't find evidence that the footwear company meets notability requirements. This article's deletion would be an odd fate for its content, which lived for a long time in the original Cariris article before that was repurposed, but think of it this way: if the editor from this diff had simply tagged the original article as an A7, waited til it was deleted, and then created a new article about the indigenous people at the same title, I think this case would have looked quite open and shut to us. If the deletion does go ahead, I'll watchlist Cariris to help to keep down the edit warring. Gonzonoir (talk) 15:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fashion-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:43, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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