Deletion of CarsDirect

Comment: This AfD is patently ridiculous: virtually all the websites in question are well sourced and easily pass the notability guidelines at .  If there are concerns about IB making promotional edits, then the correct response is to identify those responsible and go clean up the articles in question.  (And oh, COI disclaimer: I've been using Wikitravel and Flyertalk long since before IB bought them, but like most users of both sites, I have an, um, rather emphatic dislike of the company and its policies
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:WEB)

Comment: without prejudice to recreation) - I think it is clear that Internet Brands see their WP articles as a marketing tool and have engaged in a plan to distort the articles. I support the deletion of all the pages so as to remove any hint that anyone with a  has distorted them in anyway. The pages then, as per
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI)

Comment: and carefully renominate individually if specific properties don't meet  or ).  Finding the COI editing was a good catch, but some of these are clearly notable nonetheless (e.g. Internet Brands, a NASDAQ-listed company that recently underwent a $100M IPO), others are almost certainly notable (e.g. Wikitravel, Apartment Ratings).  A mass-nomination like this doesn't allow the time or convenient procedure to sort out which if any of these are (a) non-notable, (b) have no significant usable content, and/or (c) are beyond repair.  The lede of the parent article, Internet Brands, together with the "businesses section" are enough to stand alone as a start-class article, so that one certainly isn't deletable.  Of course we'll need to police the self-interested editing but that's a different issue
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:CORP||WP:WEB)

Comment: and nominate individually.  AfD is not a brute-force tool to be used for punishing spammers.  There is no criterion under #REASON that would justify removing the Wikitravel article.  That article has no copyright violation, contains no vandalism, contains no spam or advertising content, etc. etc.  (And before someone argues about the advertising content, what's there is purely descriptive and contains no promotional language whatsoever
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:DEL)