Reason: PKWARE is the creator of the PKZIP compression software. PKZIP may be notable, but PKWARE fails to meet our strict inclusion criteria.
Our PKWARE article was created in early 2010 by
User:Argruber, a COI single-purpose account probably belonging to a paid editor. It contained atrocious copy such as this: "PKWARE provides data-centric security solutions [...] and is known for its data compression and file management solutions." For one full year, nobody dared remove the "new unreviewed article" tag. I don't know why
User:Banejremoved the tag a year later; maybe s/he forgot to check for COIs.
Just because PKZIP is notable doesn't mean that PKWARE should be considered notable.
WP:PRODUCT says: "Note that a specific product or service may be notable on its own, without the company providing it being notable in its own right. In this case, an article on the product may be appropriate, and notability of the company itself is not inherited as a result."
The company has been around for a good long time: for about three decades. Still, it's quite small. It only has about 100 employees. And, more importantly, I looked through the first three pages of Google News results. I saw some
local/special-interest coverage (which doesn't count towards notability), and at least a couple of press releases, but nothing which convinced me that the company meets our inclusion criteria.
Years of experience have shown that, even if you clean up an article about a non-notable company, it often attracts new paid editors after the clean-up. Paid editors are persistent, and often can win any edit war. It's better to instead delete all articles about non-notable companies.
Please delete.
Never mind; not spammy enough to be worth pursuing further
Reason: CSD A7: This is an article about an organization, but the article does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. Before contesting this deletion, please cite multiple independent sources which include significant coverage discussing the organization. Do not cite
http://www.rudaw.net/ please. See also
WP:42.
Reason: Article may fail
WP:NCONCERT. Dear article creator: Please do not dispute this deletion unless you first add links to several articles in major mainstream sources which discuss the tour itself in detail. The New York Times or Rolling Stone would do. More-minor sources may or may not do; ask at
WP:N/N. Please see also the unofficial policy summary
WP:42.
Reason: Article doesn't seem to cite any mainstream published sources, and so may not meet our inclusion criteria. Please see
WP:42. Please do not contest this deletion unless you have found and cited some mainstream published sources. I doubt that TechCrunch qualifies as "mainstream".
Reason: Fails
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION. (Interesting side note about the equivalent Wikivoyage page,
voy:Golf in Thailand: The community voted not to keep the page. They condensed it into a few paragraphs and merged it into another article.)
Reason: Likely fails WP:GNG. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see
WP:42 for a summary of our GNG.) Also likely fails WP:NPOV, and I have doubts that anyone will ever bother to fix it.
Reason: Article has been around since 2010, yet reads like an advertisement even today in 2013. It fails our
WP:NPOV policy, and nobody cares enough about the subject to fix it. Dear article creator: Please read
WP:PSCOI.
Reason: Article makes no assertion that the subject meets the GNG. Also, the article repeatedly attracts COI editing; I have removed it, but it will be back if the article is not deleted.
Reason: Unsourced BLP which reads like an advertisement. Because the BLP is unsourced, it by definition fails
WP:42. Because it fails
WP:42, it should be deleted.
Reason: Article's lead cites 4 refs. I've clicked all 4 links; I now suspect Pegasus fails our general notability guideline. (You can see a summary of the guideline
here.)
Reason: Has failed WP:NPOV since at least last November
[1] and nobody has bothered to fix it. That's a long time. Therefore, delete for now. If anyone wants to fix it later, they can request it be undeleted into the
WP:Article incubator.
Reason: Notability tagged for over a year, and nobody's bothered to fix it. Perhaps the company fails our inclusion criteria. Dear non-Wikipedians: please see
WP:42 for a summary of those criteria. (Note also that the article also reads like an advertisement, and probably has read so for years.)
Reason: Delete for now. Page has been notability tagged since May; nobody has bothered to fix it. If someone finds some references which can let the page meet WP:GNG (dear non-Wikipedians: please see
WP:42 for a summary), then they can go to
WP:Article incubator, show them the new references, and request that the page be undeleted into the incubator.
Reason: I'm not convinced that this student union has received significant coverage in independent sources which meet our RS guideline. (Dear non-Wikipedians:
WP:42 includes a summary of the guideline. It seems from that summary that student newspapers don't qualify.)
Reason: This mediocre article does not manage to (and probably never has managed to) cite two independent sources which meet WP:RS. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see
WP:42 for a good short summary of WP:RS.)
Reason: Article doesn't seem to cite enough sources which meet our RS guidelines. If you later find sources, please contact the deleting administrator on his/her talk page, link to the sources, and ask if they are sufficient. InformationWeek is a weak source for this purpose: see
WP:B2B for an explanation. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see
WP:42 for a summary of our guidelines which show which sources are sufficient, and which are insufficient, to prove compliance with our inclusion guidelines.)
Reason: Delete for now, unless someone adds several published sources (see
WP:42) which each include at least a lengthy paragraph about Duerr. If someone finds such sources later, they can contact the deleting admin and ask if they suffice.
ISTM that this article's current sources probably fail Wikipedia's significant-coverage and verifiability requirements. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see our
summary of these requirements.) Unless we find such sources as I have suggested, delete.
Reason: Article includes no criticism. The last portion reads like a press release. Please allow deletion per
G11. (Editors: Before recreating, contact me. You'll need to cite sources which meet Wikipedia's guidelines. Local coverage in the Columbus Dispatch may not qualify.)
Reason: This somewhat-spammy article fails to show that the subject meets our inclusion criteria. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see the
unofficial summary of our criteria.)
Reason:
Five Google news archive hits. If you can find significant coverage in multiple mainstream publications like The New York Times or the print version of BusinessWeek, then please contest this deletion. Otherwise, let's allow this spammy article to quietly disappear into the night. Dear article creator: Please see
WP:42.
Reason: Just two pages of Google news archive hits, including press releases. I found nothing really impressive. I did find
one PC Magazine article which would be an acceptable source for an article about the company's "NetObserve" product, but doesn't speak about the company itself. If you can find significant coverage of the company in multiple mainstream publications like The New York Times or the print version of BusinessWeek, then please contest this deletion. Otherwise, let's allow this spammy article to quietly disappear into the night. Dear article creator: Please see
WP:42.
Reason: Only three Google News Archive hits. I want to see multiple articles in major mainstream media, not just articles in
trade publications.
WP:CORPDEPTH says that neither coverage in "media of limited interest and circulation", nor coverage in local media, are enough. Please show me at least a couple of additional impressive sources: perhaps significant coverage in The New York Times or the print version of BusinessWeek. But I doubt that any such sources exist.
Reason: Please delete. If sources are found later, please contact the deleting admin and ask if they suffice. Why delete? Well,
WP:NEO says, "To support an article about a particular term or concept we must cite what reliable secondary sources, such as books and papers, say about the term or concept, not books and papers that use the term." (Please see also
WP:42.) I looked on Google News but I don't think I found two such sources. If you find two such sources, please link to them in a "Further reading" section, then contact me and ask if they suffice.
Reason: Article has failed
WP:NPOV and
WP:NOTPROMOTION for years, and nobody has fixed it. Maybe nobody is interested in fixing it. And if so, then the article should be deleted. Please do not remove this tag unless you fix the article first.
Reason: This low-quality article is a POV press release originally written by known spammer
[2] Mr RD. The cited Boston Globe article is a stub and fails
SIGCOV. Citing the low-circulation
Boston Business Journal is probably not helpful: see
WP:AUD. The cited
Harvard Business Review article might pass WP:AUD, but I think we still need more
WP:42-compliant sources. I suspect we probably need two or three such sources, and
this page makes me suspect they don't exist. If you find such sources, please point us to them on the talk page before contesting this deletion.
Reason: Article provides no evidence that there is any SIGCOV of the subject in RSes. (See also
WP:42.) Please delete. Also, per
WP:IAR, please do not undelete upon request: unless the requester points you to two acceptable sources, please
incubate or userfy instead.
Reason: A series of differently-named articles about the MICE industry in Thailand seem to have been repeatedly being created and deleted lately. I assume that someone has been paying an editor for each wave. This single article represents the third wave of article creation. Community consensus seems to be that the articles tend to fail
WP:NOT and/or
WP:NOTPROMOTION. See also
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khon Kaen MICE Tourism. Please allow the below article to be deleted per
WP:NOTPROMOTION.
Reason: This article, which was written by a
SPA, fails to show us that there is any SIGCOV of the subject in two RSes. (See also
WP:42.) In fact, with the exception of one source, the article is completely
WP:SELFSOURCEd to Peiker's own websites.
Reason: Secunia only has about 100 employees. Most companies so small don't have enough published about them to pass WP:CORP. Maybe some of Secunia's products are notable; but the Secunia article itself should probably be deleted.
Reason: This "article" is actually a press release, presumably written by a paid editor. The use of Wikipedia for advertising purposes is forbidden. Please delete per
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION.
Reason: This "article" is actually more like a press release. It was originally created by infamous banned paid editor
Morning277. It appears to be a boring, fanboyish article about a ho-hum chain of ordinary pet shops. (Perhaps the best articles about companies are balanced, and include both positive and negative information; see, for example,
PetSmart#Allegations by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) Using Wikipedia for advertising purposes is forbidden. Please delete per
CSD G11 and
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION.
Reason: Reason: This article, which was created by a user with an editcount of just five, fails to show us that there is any SIGCOV of the subject in two mainstream RSes. (Objectors: please see
WP:42.) Wikipedia is
not a soapbox or means of promotion for whatever natural "health" products you happen to want to sell to the public. Please delete.
Reason: This "article" is perhaps more like a press release trumpeting the achievements of the subject. The article was written
[4] by indefinitely-blocked
[5] sockpuppet
User:Ombase — perhaps yet another undisclosed-paid-editor account. The use of Wikipedia for PR purposes is forbidden. Please delete this article per
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION, and pleasesaltso as to prevent
recreation for a
fourth time.
Reason: this "article" is perhaps more like a press release than an encyclopedia article. The article was created by an IP user which has since been blocked;
[6] perhaps the creator was yet another undisclosed paid editor. The use of Wikipedia for advertising purposes is forbidden. Please delete this article per
WP:NCORP and/or
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION.
Reason: This "article" is perhaps more like a press release than a true encyclopedia article. Looking at the article's history, it appears to have been written by an editor who was almost surely paid. The use of Wikipedia for promotional purposes is forbidden. Please delete this page per
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION. Thank you for your time!
Reason: This "article" is perhaps more like a press release than a true encyclopedia article. It was written by a paid editor; its talk page even admits to the fact. The "article" is also sorely lacking in balance. The use of Wikipedia for promotional purposes is forbidden. I skimmed the references list, clicked a few, did a Google search, and am not convinced that Ms. Hicks meets our strict GNG criteria, either. Please delete this page; please see the GNG as well as
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION.
Reason: Page created by a single-purpose account: perhaps an undisclosed paid editor. Please delete per
WP:NOTLINKEDIN and/or
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION, or at least draftify. Thank you for reading this!
Reason: "Ollimania embraces their great privilege to tell stories by creating books, films and animations that bring people together, kindle imaginations and inspire people to dream." ... "The Ollimania Books bursting with visuals, good hearted humor, adventure and catchy visuals." ... "Ollimania stories continue to be in the hearts of children, young adults and older adults."
Article is somewhat promotional, and perhaps even a
WP:G11 candidate. Please delete. Thank you!
Reason: Completely-unsourced article about a book published by a publisher which I'd never heard of. Article gets just 9 pageviews per month. I think article may be the result of undisclosed paid editing. I suspect that the book fails both
WP:GNG and
WP:NBOOK. Please delete. Thank you!
Reason: PKWARE is the creator of the PKZIP compression software. PKZIP may be notable, but PKWARE fails to meet our strict inclusion criteria.
Our PKWARE article was created in early 2010 by
User:Argruber, a COI single-purpose account probably belonging to a paid editor. It contained atrocious copy such as this: "PKWARE provides data-centric security solutions [...] and is known for its data compression and file management solutions." For one full year, nobody dared remove the "new unreviewed article" tag. I don't know why
User:Banejremoved the tag a year later; maybe s/he forgot to check for COIs.
Just because PKZIP is notable doesn't mean that PKWARE should be considered notable.
WP:PRODUCT says: "Note that a specific product or service may be notable on its own, without the company providing it being notable in its own right. In this case, an article on the product may be appropriate, and notability of the company itself is not inherited as a result."
The company has been around for a good long time: for about three decades. Still, it's quite small. It only has about 100 employees. And, more importantly, I looked through the first three pages of Google News results. I saw some
local/special-interest coverage (which doesn't count towards notability), and at least a couple of press releases, but nothing which convinced me that the company meets our inclusion criteria.
Years of experience have shown that, even if you clean up an article about a non-notable company, it often attracts new paid editors after the clean-up. Paid editors are persistent, and often can win any edit war. It's better to instead delete all articles about non-notable companies.
Please delete.
Never mind; not spammy enough to be worth pursuing further
Reason: CSD A7: This is an article about an organization, but the article does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. Before contesting this deletion, please cite multiple independent sources which include significant coverage discussing the organization. Do not cite
http://www.rudaw.net/ please. See also
WP:42.
Reason: Article may fail
WP:NCONCERT. Dear article creator: Please do not dispute this deletion unless you first add links to several articles in major mainstream sources which discuss the tour itself in detail. The New York Times or Rolling Stone would do. More-minor sources may or may not do; ask at
WP:N/N. Please see also the unofficial policy summary
WP:42.
Reason: Article doesn't seem to cite any mainstream published sources, and so may not meet our inclusion criteria. Please see
WP:42. Please do not contest this deletion unless you have found and cited some mainstream published sources. I doubt that TechCrunch qualifies as "mainstream".
Reason: Fails
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION. (Interesting side note about the equivalent Wikivoyage page,
voy:Golf in Thailand: The community voted not to keep the page. They condensed it into a few paragraphs and merged it into another article.)
Reason: Likely fails WP:GNG. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see
WP:42 for a summary of our GNG.) Also likely fails WP:NPOV, and I have doubts that anyone will ever bother to fix it.
Reason: Article has been around since 2010, yet reads like an advertisement even today in 2013. It fails our
WP:NPOV policy, and nobody cares enough about the subject to fix it. Dear article creator: Please read
WP:PSCOI.
Reason: Article makes no assertion that the subject meets the GNG. Also, the article repeatedly attracts COI editing; I have removed it, but it will be back if the article is not deleted.
Reason: Unsourced BLP which reads like an advertisement. Because the BLP is unsourced, it by definition fails
WP:42. Because it fails
WP:42, it should be deleted.
Reason: Article's lead cites 4 refs. I've clicked all 4 links; I now suspect Pegasus fails our general notability guideline. (You can see a summary of the guideline
here.)
Reason: Has failed WP:NPOV since at least last November
[1] and nobody has bothered to fix it. That's a long time. Therefore, delete for now. If anyone wants to fix it later, they can request it be undeleted into the
WP:Article incubator.
Reason: Notability tagged for over a year, and nobody's bothered to fix it. Perhaps the company fails our inclusion criteria. Dear non-Wikipedians: please see
WP:42 for a summary of those criteria. (Note also that the article also reads like an advertisement, and probably has read so for years.)
Reason: Delete for now. Page has been notability tagged since May; nobody has bothered to fix it. If someone finds some references which can let the page meet WP:GNG (dear non-Wikipedians: please see
WP:42 for a summary), then they can go to
WP:Article incubator, show them the new references, and request that the page be undeleted into the incubator.
Reason: I'm not convinced that this student union has received significant coverage in independent sources which meet our RS guideline. (Dear non-Wikipedians:
WP:42 includes a summary of the guideline. It seems from that summary that student newspapers don't qualify.)
Reason: This mediocre article does not manage to (and probably never has managed to) cite two independent sources which meet WP:RS. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see
WP:42 for a good short summary of WP:RS.)
Reason: Article doesn't seem to cite enough sources which meet our RS guidelines. If you later find sources, please contact the deleting administrator on his/her talk page, link to the sources, and ask if they are sufficient. InformationWeek is a weak source for this purpose: see
WP:B2B for an explanation. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see
WP:42 for a summary of our guidelines which show which sources are sufficient, and which are insufficient, to prove compliance with our inclusion guidelines.)
Reason: Delete for now, unless someone adds several published sources (see
WP:42) which each include at least a lengthy paragraph about Duerr. If someone finds such sources later, they can contact the deleting admin and ask if they suffice.
ISTM that this article's current sources probably fail Wikipedia's significant-coverage and verifiability requirements. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see our
summary of these requirements.) Unless we find such sources as I have suggested, delete.
Reason: Article includes no criticism. The last portion reads like a press release. Please allow deletion per
G11. (Editors: Before recreating, contact me. You'll need to cite sources which meet Wikipedia's guidelines. Local coverage in the Columbus Dispatch may not qualify.)
Reason: This somewhat-spammy article fails to show that the subject meets our inclusion criteria. (Dear non-Wikipedians: Please see the
unofficial summary of our criteria.)
Reason:
Five Google news archive hits. If you can find significant coverage in multiple mainstream publications like The New York Times or the print version of BusinessWeek, then please contest this deletion. Otherwise, let's allow this spammy article to quietly disappear into the night. Dear article creator: Please see
WP:42.
Reason: Just two pages of Google news archive hits, including press releases. I found nothing really impressive. I did find
one PC Magazine article which would be an acceptable source for an article about the company's "NetObserve" product, but doesn't speak about the company itself. If you can find significant coverage of the company in multiple mainstream publications like The New York Times or the print version of BusinessWeek, then please contest this deletion. Otherwise, let's allow this spammy article to quietly disappear into the night. Dear article creator: Please see
WP:42.
Reason: Only three Google News Archive hits. I want to see multiple articles in major mainstream media, not just articles in
trade publications.
WP:CORPDEPTH says that neither coverage in "media of limited interest and circulation", nor coverage in local media, are enough. Please show me at least a couple of additional impressive sources: perhaps significant coverage in The New York Times or the print version of BusinessWeek. But I doubt that any such sources exist.
Reason: Please delete. If sources are found later, please contact the deleting admin and ask if they suffice. Why delete? Well,
WP:NEO says, "To support an article about a particular term or concept we must cite what reliable secondary sources, such as books and papers, say about the term or concept, not books and papers that use the term." (Please see also
WP:42.) I looked on Google News but I don't think I found two such sources. If you find two such sources, please link to them in a "Further reading" section, then contact me and ask if they suffice.
Reason: Article has failed
WP:NPOV and
WP:NOTPROMOTION for years, and nobody has fixed it. Maybe nobody is interested in fixing it. And if so, then the article should be deleted. Please do not remove this tag unless you fix the article first.
Reason: This low-quality article is a POV press release originally written by known spammer
[2] Mr RD. The cited Boston Globe article is a stub and fails
SIGCOV. Citing the low-circulation
Boston Business Journal is probably not helpful: see
WP:AUD. The cited
Harvard Business Review article might pass WP:AUD, but I think we still need more
WP:42-compliant sources. I suspect we probably need two or three such sources, and
this page makes me suspect they don't exist. If you find such sources, please point us to them on the talk page before contesting this deletion.
Reason: Article provides no evidence that there is any SIGCOV of the subject in RSes. (See also
WP:42.) Please delete. Also, per
WP:IAR, please do not undelete upon request: unless the requester points you to two acceptable sources, please
incubate or userfy instead.
Reason: A series of differently-named articles about the MICE industry in Thailand seem to have been repeatedly being created and deleted lately. I assume that someone has been paying an editor for each wave. This single article represents the third wave of article creation. Community consensus seems to be that the articles tend to fail
WP:NOT and/or
WP:NOTPROMOTION. See also
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khon Kaen MICE Tourism. Please allow the below article to be deleted per
WP:NOTPROMOTION.
Reason: This article, which was written by a
SPA, fails to show us that there is any SIGCOV of the subject in two RSes. (See also
WP:42.) In fact, with the exception of one source, the article is completely
WP:SELFSOURCEd to Peiker's own websites.
Reason: Secunia only has about 100 employees. Most companies so small don't have enough published about them to pass WP:CORP. Maybe some of Secunia's products are notable; but the Secunia article itself should probably be deleted.
Reason: This "article" is actually a press release, presumably written by a paid editor. The use of Wikipedia for advertising purposes is forbidden. Please delete per
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION.
Reason: This "article" is actually more like a press release. It was originally created by infamous banned paid editor
Morning277. It appears to be a boring, fanboyish article about a ho-hum chain of ordinary pet shops. (Perhaps the best articles about companies are balanced, and include both positive and negative information; see, for example,
PetSmart#Allegations by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) Using Wikipedia for advertising purposes is forbidden. Please delete per
CSD G11 and
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION.
Reason: Reason: This article, which was created by a user with an editcount of just five, fails to show us that there is any SIGCOV of the subject in two mainstream RSes. (Objectors: please see
WP:42.) Wikipedia is
not a soapbox or means of promotion for whatever natural "health" products you happen to want to sell to the public. Please delete.
Reason: This "article" is perhaps more like a press release trumpeting the achievements of the subject. The article was written
[4] by indefinitely-blocked
[5] sockpuppet
User:Ombase — perhaps yet another undisclosed-paid-editor account. The use of Wikipedia for PR purposes is forbidden. Please delete this article per
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION, and pleasesaltso as to prevent
recreation for a
fourth time.
Reason: this "article" is perhaps more like a press release than an encyclopedia article. The article was created by an IP user which has since been blocked;
[6] perhaps the creator was yet another undisclosed paid editor. The use of Wikipedia for advertising purposes is forbidden. Please delete this article per
WP:NCORP and/or
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION.
Reason: This "article" is perhaps more like a press release than a true encyclopedia article. Looking at the article's history, it appears to have been written by an editor who was almost surely paid. The use of Wikipedia for promotional purposes is forbidden. Please delete this page per
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION. Thank you for your time!
Reason: This "article" is perhaps more like a press release than a true encyclopedia article. It was written by a paid editor; its talk page even admits to the fact. The "article" is also sorely lacking in balance. The use of Wikipedia for promotional purposes is forbidden. I skimmed the references list, clicked a few, did a Google search, and am not convinced that Ms. Hicks meets our strict GNG criteria, either. Please delete this page; please see the GNG as well as
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION.
Reason: Page created by a single-purpose account: perhaps an undisclosed paid editor. Please delete per
WP:NOTLINKEDIN and/or
WP:NOTFORPROMOTION, or at least draftify. Thank you for reading this!
Reason: "Ollimania embraces their great privilege to tell stories by creating books, films and animations that bring people together, kindle imaginations and inspire people to dream." ... "The Ollimania Books bursting with visuals, good hearted humor, adventure and catchy visuals." ... "Ollimania stories continue to be in the hearts of children, young adults and older adults."
Article is somewhat promotional, and perhaps even a
WP:G11 candidate. Please delete. Thank you!
Reason: Completely-unsourced article about a book published by a publisher which I'd never heard of. Article gets just 9 pageviews per month. I think article may be the result of undisclosed paid editing. I suspect that the book fails both
WP:GNG and
WP:NBOOK. Please delete. Thank you!