Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afghanistan International Bank

Afghanistan International Bank
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Company type	Private
Founded	2004
Headquarters	Kabul, Afghanistan
Website	http://www.aib.af

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 keep. (non-admin closure) Kraxler (talk) 16:59, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Afghanistan International Bank

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Does not appear to pass WP:CORP. Darylgolden^(talk) Ping when replying 05:42, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - was about to prod it actually, for being non-notable, poorly sourced, and spammy/promotional. — kikichugirl ^oh hello! 05:44, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. TheMesquito^buzz 05:55, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Afghanistan-related deletion discussions. TheMesquito^buzz 05:57, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Actually, the article does not have a promotional tone. Rather, it provides a straightforward overview of the company and its operations. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:40, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – Meets WP:CORPDEPTH. Source examples:

Afghanistan International Bank Looks to UAE-Afghan Ties. CPI Financial. (subscription required)
Citi and Afghanistan International Bank Enter into Banking Agreement. Economics Week. (subscription required)
Afghan Bankers' Delegation Visits Meezan House. The Nation. (subscription required)

Also of note is that The Wall Street Journal describes the company as "one of the country's biggest lenders" (in Afghanistan), (link). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:47, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete and restart~~ Keep, blank and rewrite. The initial version contains extensive copy-paste from the 2003 launch press release. Only retrievable content I can see are the sources that just added (by @Northamerica1000:), one sentence and the infobox:

Extended content

Bank has its branches in Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Kandhar, Jalalabad and Kabul City.

--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:24, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – After some edits, the present page version does not contain copyright violations of the press release listed above (See Earwigs Copyvio Detector report). Of note is that substantial content remains in the article after the cleanup, contrary to the delete !vote above. Page versions with copyvio problems can be Revision deleted, instead of the entire article having to be deleted. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:20, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate your thoroughness. Sadly, there are no archives of AIB's website at archive.org to compare. Since half of the initial version is a known copyvio, normal procedure is to doubt the rest, and rewrite it. On re-rereading WP:CV, I don't see any reason to delete or revdelete. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 11:38, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:57, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, with thanks to Northamerica1000's efforts the article now meets WP:CORP and is in much better shape. - Mailer Diablo 17:31, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:11, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - meets WP:CORP .--BabbaQ (talk) 14:50, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Seems to be notable and meet guidelines now. Seems deletion is an demonstration of WP:WORLDVIEW AusLondonder (talk) 06:28, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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