Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Home business

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 No consensus, keep as microstub under the assumption that it will be expanded to a full encyclopedic article. Family business, Work at home parent, and SOHO are all not quite the same thing. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-01-03 07:42Z

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I came to this page expecting to find a good encyclopedic article about home businesses, especially of the types I see offered online. What I found was a page entirely filled with original research, weird platitudes and, most importantly, nothing I can find that could be salvaged or cleaned up without entirely rewriting the article, in my humble opinion. I've never experienced such a difference in what I expected out of a Wikipedia page and what I got. Delete unless rewritten. Grandmasterka 07:42, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Now that it's been stubified... I still say delete, because it's just a ministub at the moment. Someone can recreate it when they have more to say, and I think it should have its own article. I don't know enough about the subject, and simply googling "home business" will get a bunch of crap that won't help me write a neutral encyclopedia article. I don't smoke. :-) Grandmasterka 21:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Delete What the hell...? Looked through the history, but apparently it's always been this way. It's written like an ad, sort of, but even that doesn't seem to be the case. Just... weird. Don't see anything here worth keeping for a prospective rewrite, though. Shimeru 09:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - how-to essay. MER-C 11:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I've stubbed this to a single sentence that was worth keeping - we need an article on this subject just not the essay that was there. just a very short stub of a good topic now - Peripitus (Talk) 12:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or Redirect to Family business. —Tokek 14:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as stub. Do not redirect - family business is a completely different concept. --- RockMFR 19:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Comment The current revision would qualify for speedy A3. Certantly more can be said than a rephrasing of the title? Resolute 20:16, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as stub per Periptus. --Arnzy (talk • contribs) 22:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as stub -- could become a good article. Tarinth 23:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• KEEPI gotta say It, Most of these "atavistic" delete suggestions here, are obviously coming from a bunch of pompous thick-heads who do not understand the basic involvment of a working class article! And more importantly, what does the whole frame-work of the title suggest?? Now here is a good one!

"I came to this page expecting to find a good encyclopedic article about home businesses, especially of the types I see offered online." And I QUOTE "especially of the types I see offered online"

Now that is really Fk'n unreal! HOME BUSINESS ONLINE? What the hell did you smoke yesterday! Do a Google/Yahoo/MSN search on Home Business, Online whatever, show us what comes up and then write a better article!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.59.254.227 (talk • contribs).

Quote: "I don't know enough about the subject, and simply googling "home business" will get a bunch of crap that won't help me write a neutral encyclopedia article"

Well, Uhh, Thanx for proving my point! as-per Quote "especially of the types I see offered online"

Now WHICH Online Entity are we talking about here?

And also...What the heck does Bill Gates have to do with any of this? Other than the fact of being mentioned in said article which is now being considered for deletion!

• • Uh... yeah, Bill Gates was a home business working-class hero, rolling up his sleeves at his kitchen table.... Bwithh 16:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as it stands it's just a dicdef, and a circular one at that. SkierRMH 01:23, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Work at home parent. This subject is already covered fine elsewhere. meshach 03:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I work from home (customer support) and am certainly not a parent. Also the Telecommuting article leaves out many work from home jobs and covers a narrower niche. It seems there is a potential for a really interesting article here. Quadzilla99 06:27, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• uh...redirect to SOHO? I agree that it seems like there could be an article there, but this could also be a major spam magnet, and there certainly isn't an article there at the moment, so if not redirected, count me as neutral. Xtifr _tälk 11:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, don't redirect This article needs work, but Home business definitely deserves its own article. Subheadings could include history, current trend, economic impact, ...etc. Rogermong2 18:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, don't redirect, and improve per Rogermong2. This is a noteworthy trend, it's just got a shit article. Jumbo Snails 02:31, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

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.