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 merge to Banking in Armenia. Spartaz ^Humbug! 03:38, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deposits in Armenian banks

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PROD removed. Single source, close to spam, WP:N, probably also WP:V Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 17:43, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Really not suitable for an encyclopedia. Obviously banks accept deposits. The topic of Armenian banks can have its article, if someone cares to start one. The detailed information on deposit policies would only be of interest to a person doing business with one of the banks. In that case it would be better to get the info first hand from the bank itself. Kitfoxxe (talk) 18:21, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This is too detailed for Wikipedia and arguably fails several aspects of WP:NOT. I'm also worried that the material in the article will never be as up-to-date as that on the banks' own websites, which are a much better place for people to look for this type of information. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:08, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm changing my opinion to selective merge with Banking in Armenia as a result of the discussion below. I didn't realise that the latter existed until now, and there is probably something that can be salvaged, sourced and merged. Cordless Larry (talk) 13:50, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do think that if Banking in Armenia hadn't existed, then this AfD's finding should've been "selectively trim and rename to Banking in Armenia". (Kitfoxxe was almost there with the first !vote, it's just that s/he didn't find the right title, and seemed unwilling to actually write an article in the big empty space called Armenian banks—which, incidentally, I'm about to redirect to Banking in Armenia.)
What I don't understand is how one could get from this content to a "delete" !vote; that just seems bizarre.—S Marshall T/C 19:21, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was concerned that the material verged on a guide or directory, and that it may be inaccurate, and hence thought that readers were better advised to consult banks' own websites. However, if the merge is selective and the material merged is sourced, I have no problem with that option. Cordless Larry (talk) 10:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Armenia-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You all three appear to be opining on the basis that what is written here describes one bank's individual banking practices. But the article itself states in the introduction that what it is describing is what is required for all banks by the country's legal system and central bank regulations. The article's author has even tried ineptly (This is xyr first article.) to point to the Central Bank of Armenia as a source. As such "This can be looked up on the bank's own WWW site." is irrelevant. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia of banking as much as it is an encyclopaedia of anything else, and the legal requirements for banking in Armenia, imposed by government/by central bank regulation, are a perfectly valid topic. Uncle G (talk) 20:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- That's fine; however, we're not discussing a general topic, we're discussing this particular article. If someone wants to write about the topic, that could be ok -- but that would mean a complete re-write from scratch, with a different title, which is basically the same as delete. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 20:10, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Wrong. This particular article says outright that it's discussing that general topic. It does so in its introduction. Have you not read it? Uncle G (talk) 03:46, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Err... I take your "Wrong" as "Idiot!", so I'm not gonna talk about this anymore. I may also presume that you are one yourself. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 03:50, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - Personal attacks are pretty much always a sign of not having a valid argument to use, as is the deliberate and blantantly obvious mis-reading of the word "wrong" as meaning something other than "wrong" just to create a straw man. Now go and read the article to see what it quite clearly says that it's about in its first few sentences. Uncle G (talk) 04:28, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Incomprehensible fragments of... something. EEng (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw from the Bank of Wikipedia. Banks accept deposits, sometimes pay interest, and are regulated. This is not something unique to Armenia. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:10, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Selectively merge into Banking in Armenia. Uncle G's got the right of it: the legal requirements for banking in Armenia are a perfectly valid topic and there is a useful attempt at providing a reliable source here. I agree that this material can't remain in this precise form, but all the issues mentioned by the "delete" !voters are fixable by a trim and merge, so per WP:BEFORE and WP:ATD, that's the way forward. N.B. If the closer finds this article title is to become a redlink, rather than to retain the history under a redirect, then the closer will need to perform a history merge in order to comply with our content licences, so it's noticeably simpler to keep the redirect.—S Marshall T/C 12:17, 21 December 2010 (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.