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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Lourdes 12:56, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Seems to be mostly a UK-bank specific term that the original author has tried to extend to every single country. Most of the countries on this list don't have a "big four" or the term is not used there. I don't see the scope of this article. Mostly duplicating List of largest banks, proposing some merge into there. – Craig Davison (talk) 12:47, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• List of largest banks isn't by country; Big Four (banking) is but covers multiple countries. Some of these should be described as "Big Four" but others not. Big Five (banks) exists and is specific to Canada (although some in the Big Four list are lists of five), and the UK term and possibly others could similarly be split from the list. This could be a list limited to uses of "Big Four", a list of the largest banks by country, or be split so we have both of these. Peter James (talk) 15:25, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep, but trim to Australia, China, South Africa and the UK. The term seems to be the applied to them. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:31, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 00:15, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 00:15, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy keep, and the nominator deserves a fish slap who has not stated why article should be deleted, also WP:AFDNOTCLEANUP, this is a basic term in australia in a similar way that every ozzie knows that "granny smith" is referring to an apple, and not someone's nanna, even gnews search knows this ie. entering "big four banks australia" brings back many, many hits. Coolabahapple (talk) 00:30, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - per Coolabahapple. The article may need to be trimmed to only include documented usage of the term, but deletion is not the right tool here. MarginalCost (talk) 04:12, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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