Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uncle Buck Finance
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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 09:53, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
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Promotion for non notable company. This article is a deceptivly sourced piece that is more about payday loans than it is about this company. The majority of references do not mention Uncle Buck and somtimes do not even verify the claims made. Others are mostly listings or PR.
The only thing of note seems to be their appearence in an ITV documentry, but such appearences are not entirely independent.
Much of the "Size of market" section is copied directly from one of the sources so may be a copyright issue. - "Payday lending market investigation" (PDF). Competition & Markets Authority, Summary, par. 9
This was declined at afc but just created anyway. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:13, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:25, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:25, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
- Delete as none of the listed information and sources are convincing enough for the applicable notability. SwisterTwister talk 07:53, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- delete fails WP:CORP. sourcing is insufficiently in depth or not third party. LibStar (talk) 08:03, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
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