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The result was keep. v/r - T P 01:55, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Promotional article on a company that fails WP:CORP; almost all of the references currently in use fail WP:RS and the majority are to the company's own website. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 08:17, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - yes, per nom, the article is pure advertising with no evidence of notability (fails WP:GNG). It has been tagged for a year as needing reliable links, hasn't grown any. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:37, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:16, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Stub and keep. The petty trade awards and PR sources have got to go. But this is a fairly well established consumer business. I was able to find genuine third party coverage; apparently their marketing claims were too much for the Federal Trade Commission.[1][2] Nobody ever went broke selling abstinence based pseudovirtues to Americans. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:01, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:01, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – The article obviously needs improvement, but the notability of this company/diet plan is exactly the same as Nutrisystem or Jenny Craig, Inc., neither of which seem to have notability concerns. (But both of which have Wiki pages that are better constructed.) Jhortman (talk) 07:56, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - All corporations with market cap above 200M are inherently notable. Several sources exist on Reuters, Google finance, etc. Jwray (talk) 07:19, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 18:31, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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