Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LAGbook
this article has a long history of problems. Lagbook was deleted twice in February 2012 as unambiguous advertising. The article was recreated as LAGbook and had significant issues with sourcing. Particularly troubling was the company's tendency to make claims that were reprinted in the Nigerian media but were either grossly inflated or taken out of context or untrue. My favorite examples: the company claimed to have partnered with Dropbox when, if you read what they were claiming to have done carefully, it sounded like they had just plunked down $100 on Dropbox for Teams and called that a partnership. Similarly, the article claimed that Lagbook had been covered by TechCrunch, but when you read the TechCrunch article it was about a completely different company, GROUPS.PS, which makes a white-label social networking service and only briefly mentioned Lagbook as one of the users of that service. There were other s, at the time I first CSD'd Lagbook, the company's logo was identical to Facebook's except that it was green instead of blue and used a lowercase l instead of a lowercase f. So I was not at all surprised when the creators of Lagbook put the website for sale and then the purchaser of Lagbook came forward and said that the founders were making false claims about the business and hijacking the purchaser's social media accounts. You can read the details at Talk:LAGbook. The sources that we have are primarily Nigerian media (The Vanguard and the National Mirror). Given that these sources have printed inaccurate claims from the Lagbook founders without doing any kind of independent research, I think they need to be discounted as unreliable. What that leaves us with is a website that sold for $10,000https://flippa.com/2867569-pr-4-social-network-with-750k-registered-members-124k-uniques-mo-making-693-mo, ranked around 18,000 on Alexa at its best and is now defunct. I don't see any notability here but I am worried that the founders are using Wikipedia as a vehicle for dishonest self-promotion
— User:GabrielF, 19:59, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:REDFLAG (Wikipedia:Verifiability)