Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FleetBoston

Useless stub, very uninformative and not worthy of notation without expansion. [[User:Destinova|Marlowe²]] 05:56, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)

• Keep - slow down the deletion train here. This is a real bank that has been bought out and the facts can be verified. There are lots and lots of one line stubs in Wikipedia, and it will be improved. As such, I have listed it one Wikipedia:Cleanup. Burgundavia 06:45, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
• I've been bold and changed it to a redirect to the better-named and more informative stub FleetBoston Financial. If [[User:Destinova|Marlowe²]] agrees, I suggest that he be the one to remove this section from VfD, otherwise that he adds a VfD message to FleetBoston Financial. - TB 09:00, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep re: What to list and not list on VfD. FleetBoston is definitly notable enough for inclusion in WP. Davodd 16:10, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Like the railroads, pretty soon there's only going to be four banks left (or two), and this proto-behemoth is likely to be one of them. --Gary D 07:06, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• Keep and hope it grows. FleetBoston was a very substantial bank of regional (Northeast US) importance. There is a lot of reasonably significant information that could go in the article. Like, the time I had a CD with Bank of Boston or Baybank of Boston or whatever it was called a merger or two ago, and when Fleet took it over and the CD matured, they sent me a notice informing me that I could either roll it over or redeem it... but that if I chose to redeem it, they were going to sock me with a $25 fee. When pressed, they agreed to waive the fee "just this once," as if there were ever likely to be a second time. In the transition from BayBank to Bank of Boston to FleetBoston customer service declined and fees increased with every merger. I believe it was Fleet that set up the special express tellers that you could only use if you had more than $25,000 in your account. Grrrr..... Fleet's logo looked like the dorsal fins of three sharks, and when they merged with Bank of Boston the new logo looked like a green and a blue shark circling. A friend of mine changed banks to get away from Bank of Boston, only to have the new bank swallowed up by Bank of Boston, changed again, and had the second bank swallowed by FleetBoston. Are you getting all this? because it might be just a tad too POV to put in the article. I moved all my accounts to a little neighborhood bank that pays 3.5% on their AutoMax savings account. I hope they survive for a while. Dpbsmith 20:23, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)