Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bini

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Redirect to MINI (BMW). —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-26 08:18Z

Bini

Neologism, POV, unreferenced, already adequately covered in MINI (BMW), never likely to be more than the smallest possible stub. SteveBaker 20:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Background: There is a classic car called the Mini which has an enormous number of fans and supporters (I am one of them). In 2001 BMW bought the company and the name from the previous owner - shut down production of the classic car and started making the MINI (BMW) as a 'retro' car with some of the look and attributes of the original. A small, but very vocal minority of classic Mini owners are utterly furious that this happened to their car and are throwing invective and general nastiness over the web. One thing they have tried is to pursuade people to call the new car the 'BINI' (a contraction of BMW and MINI). This small but notable fact is duly noted in the article MINI (BMW)#Criticism in a suitably NPOV fashion. So - then an entire article has appeared entitled BINI which basically says that ALL classic Mini owners dislike the new car...and nothing else. So - the term is a Neologism, it's been around for a few years. It's certainly not used by all classic Mini owners - I belong to a classic Mini club with about 200 members - approximately a third of whom actually own both a classic Mini and a BMW MINI - and in a recent email thread on the subject, not one person said they use the term BINI. This article will never have decent references - it'll never be more than one sentence and it's already adequately covered in the correct place: ie in MINI (BMW). SteveBaker 21:05, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect? to "Mini (BMW)". -- saberwyn 21:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, i thought it might be useful seeing as it didn't redirect anywhereI may not be the height of Deviance, but i'm trying 01:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The nominator obviously knows what he's talking about on this one. --Descendall 06:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

Sorry - I'f I've made a terrible Faux-pas with procedure. I was responsible for the previous AfD for an article of this name. A new article appeared under the same name - and since it was still on my watch list, I found it. I followed the AfD creation procedure and then realised that this page (which is totally unrelated othen than by the article name) already existed.

Anyway - the article that is called Bini right now is an obvious vanity article - and needs to be speedy-deleted. Ignore the preceeding debate - it's irrelevent this time around.

Thanks! SteveBaker 18:46, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]