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The result was Keep per WP:CORP--JForget 23:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Grant Thornton International (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Obvious advertising, unreferenced, fails WP:CORP, created by a user whose sole contributions are for this article. Biruitorul 01:36, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• delete. Per nomination. Renee 02:05, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete spam. --victor falk 03:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep The fifth largest public accounting firm worldwide, with sources provided, more than satisfying anyone's definition of the Wikipedia:Notability standard, and passes WP:CORP with flying colors. The fact that the individual who created this article did not edit any other Wikipedia article is completely and utterly irrelevant to determining the notability of this article. If there are those among us who had never heard of the firm and who think that this article truly is (or was) spam, there are a wide variety of tags that should have been applied to this tag before the stampede to AfD. This is yet another example of a violation of Wikipedia:deletion policy, which mandates that nominators perform the due diligence to research, edit and improve articles before starting an AfD. Alansohn 05:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's relevant to the encyclopedic value of the article in this form that it was largely created by a probable spammer. It could be deleted and re-created in NPOV form, though. This AfD was made in good faith, by the way. Biruitorul 12:07, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or Merge. As per Alansohn, this easily passes WP:CORP, e.g. 1000ds of google news hits with many articles focusing on GTI. But I think merging with Grant Thornton LLP (and cleaning up advertising) is enough. --Allefant 09:00, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Passes WP:CORP and WP:N standards easily. Cleanup the article and it will be fine. TonyBallioni 14:29, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep fifth or sixth largest accountancy firm in the world I believe (depending on what basis you measure) cf BDO International. David Underdown 15:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep per above and it also has about 30 or 40 backlinks, at least 20 of which are in the article namespace - definite notability. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthonymorris (talk • contribs) 08:32, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - 5th largest accountancy firm easily meets notability criterion. Cosmo0 19:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Very obvious keep. AndyJones 19:35, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletions. -- Gavin Collins 10:10, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Snowball Keep. One of the more important companies in the world. Odd nomination. Wikidemo 14:22, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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