Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sales 2.0
per my own nomination.  This article has been http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Sales_2.0 speedied twice already, and people with a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest association have continued to recreate the article and silently delete maintenance tags, so I'm putting this up for AfD to get this over with.  Take your pick: , , or .  "Sales 2.0" is a invented trademark (for a specific company's |non-notable consulting service) attempting to masquerade as a general phrase (through astroturfing, from what I can tell).  As noted in previous versions and previous incarnations of this article, this is a eologism|neologism intentionally coined, apparently in 2007, by a company named Sales 2.0 LLC, then registered as a trademark (U.S. 3460752, application serial number 77218577).  This company also owns the domain sales2.com and claims "Sales 2.0 is a Trademark of Sales 2.0 LLC" right at the bottom of http://www.sales2.com/ itself (at least as of 2009-05-22).  In short, "Sales 2.0" is a contrived phrase that its inventor is attempting to get into the mainstream, while the inventor, which has registered it for a related but different but related concept, has the exclusive right to sell "consulting" related to it.  Its trademarked use is ''not'' for sales methods themselves &mdash; its official use is for consulting ''about'' sales methods, as per the trademark registration:Business consultation; Consultancy services regarding business strategies; Consultation services in the field of company, business sector and industry data and research; Consulting services in business organization and management; Creation of marketing tools designed to increase a client company's knowledge of customer needs, and its competitors' products and services, pricing, advertising strategy and sales strategy  Neither its trademarked brand, nor its alleged general meaning (which is a moving target) are notable
— User:Closeapple, 23:02, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NEO||WP:CORP||WP:ADVERT||WP:NN||WP:N (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)