Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Usage data

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 03:39, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Usage data

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Article has had no sources for years, I can’t find any reliable secondary sources for it myself. And it seems to duplicate the scope of an existing article, Traffic analysis. I fail to see how “analyzing web usage data” is different from web traffic analysis which the other article already covers.

Edit: Looking through the edit history, it seems there used to be a single source for the article (removed for an unexplained reason) “Stokes, R.(2009) eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing, Second Edition, Quirk eMarketing (Pty) Ltd, pp 86” Not sure if a single reference is enough to warrant an article though.

(And I’m not sure if that citation is even a reliable source, or even talks about “usage data”. Can someone check that?) ApexParagon (talk) 03:35, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That book is available on-line. Page 89 supports nothing of the sort. However, this began as a straight copy of page 272. Unsurprisingly, 2010 is when the third edition of the book came out and this is not the only page where Dikshin23 (talk · contribs) just copied parts of the book into Wikipedia. Special:Permalink/403319339 is page 365. We shouldn't waste more time on this than the article creator expended in copying it out of a marketing book under a useless title. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 04:38, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:41, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Traffic analysis is primarily about military intelligence and computer security. Web analytics is more relevant. Also this was copied from a book (https://www.scribd.com/document/204162689/Rob-Stokes-eMarketing-the-Essential-Guide-to-Online-Marketing-Quirk-eMarketing-2008, page 86, paragraphs in Wikipedia not in the same order as in the book) and attribution was provided, but the licence is CC BY-NC-ND, which is not compatible with Wikipedia. I would suggest redirecting to web analytics, but most mentions of "usage data" in Wikipedia are about energy, water or public transport. Peter James (talk) 11:56, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as WP:COPYVIO. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:06, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete per WP:COPYVIO and G11. Mast303 (talk) 15:33, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Correction: G12 Mast303 (talk) 01:34, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete per G12 or A3. An exact copy of the book above. Mast303 has removed the content that violates it and now there is nothing left in the article. Conyo14 (talk) 18:40, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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