Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kiwiberri

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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:30, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kiwiberri

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Like Dushan Jugum explained in WP:PROD. The only reliable source mentioned are spam like by the way, they also claim to be the first self-service frozen yoghurt in New Zealand. Sheldybett (talk) 01:36, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:15, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:15, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:15, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Question for nominator @Sheldybett: If you support deletion and agree with the PROD rationale, why did you remove the PROD tag? Bakazaka (talk) 03:40, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think Sheldybett thinks a PROD is a polite request for a an AfD. (Dushan Jugum (talk) 04:16, 10 March 2019 (UTC)).[reply]

I admit that I had not considered that possibility. Bakazaka (talk) 04:21, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Article is promotional in tone and lacks sourcing.TH1980 (talk) 03:41, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete.This reads like spam to me. I can find one mention online in a reliable source. They claim to be the first self-service frozen yoghurt in New Zealand, if that was a notable thing, then we would need to find some evidence of it. Not notable under ‘basic’ or ‘organisation’. (Dushan Jugum (talk) 04:16, 10 March 2019 (UTC)).[reply]
Delete So, this article was originally about a fro-yo chain based in California, one of many in the mid- to late-2000s (see e.g. this LA Times listing of fro-yo shops: [1]). The California Kiwiberri actually got RS coverage, in part because of its legal (and personal) drama with Pinkberry (see e.g. this New York Times article [2]). In 2013 the Wikipedia article on the California Kiwiberri was hijacked by an IP to promote a business in New Zealand (diff [3]). The NZ version doesn't pass WP:NCORP, and is obviously WP:PROMO. I doubt anyone wants to revert to the California version, even though that version might be notable. Basically no one has cared about either version for years. So, delete. Bakazaka (talk) 05:39, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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