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The result was keep. Spartaz ^Humbug! 22:24, 20 November 2015 (UTC) reply

DigitalOcean

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Promotional article on borderline notable company. Almost every reference is a mere announcement, even the NYTimes. The others are promotion, including the Forbes "interview" where the interviewer simply gave the proprietor the opportunity to say whatever he wanted to. . DGG ( talk ) 04:17, 12 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Musa  Talk  04:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Musa  Talk  04:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Musa  Talk  04:38, 12 November 2015 (UTC) reply

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This was already nominated for deletion and was endorsed. The article could use a clean-up since the last time I checked, but there is genuine information here, like the fact that FreeBSD is offered. The point of starting the article was to document resources this company offers. Compared to, say, random television shows, this company is doing quite a bit more for the world. I'm not even an active customer, but I gotta say, even as a public sector medical researcher, I find the hostility toward for-profit companies a little off-putting, especially when compared to the more obviously direct bio articles, for example, Survivin. Deleting this article does me as much disservice as deleting the article on cIAP2. I'm pretty sure more people think about DigitalOcean than about TAZ. Biotech involves bio, but it also involves tech. Where' the balance? Niels Olson ( talk) 04:43, 12 November 2015 (UTC) reply

It should stay, with lots of new refs added. "Borderline notability"? Did you even try searching Google News for DigitalOcean? It is the focus of at least 50 articles and mentioned in dozens more. Do your research before claiming a famous company is "borderline non-notable". Wonderfl ^(reply) 05:46, 12 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Keep - I think there are enough "international or national" "multiple independent sources" cited per WP:CORPDEPTH to establish notability. Rwendland ( talk) 16:25, 12 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Not sure but perhaps delete for now as there's not as much coverage as there could be. As I'm not entirely sure about one side or the other, notifying past editors Theroadislong and Grayfell and past AfD commenters Deb, Cirt, Niels Olson and BethNaught. SwisterTwister talk 23:30, 13 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Not sure either. At a glance, it seems like a keep, but many of the sources are much, much flimsier than they first appear. Effort towards cleanup here might also benefit Libscore, which is closely related and has similar problems. Grayfell ( talk) 23:49, 13 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Keep per the significant coverage in reliable sources. (I participated in a related DRV at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2014 April 18#DigitalOcean.)
  1. Mutton, Paul (2015-05-01). "DigitalOcean becomes the second largest hosting company in the world". Netcraft. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  2. Butler, Brandon (2015-05-06). "You'll never guess who the web's second-largest hoster is. Not Google, Microsoft or IBM. Netcraft says it's Digital Ocean". Network World. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  3. Chernova, Yuliya (2014-03-07). "Before Meeting Andreessen Horowitz, DigitalOcean Met Lots of Blank Stares". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  4. Chernova, Yuliya (2014-12-09). "DigitalOcean Arms With $50 Million in Debt for Big Data-Center Battle". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  5. Babcock, Charles (2013-07-11). "Infrastructure as a Service. DigitalOcean: Developer-Friendly Cloud Service On A Budget". InformationWeek. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  6. Dillet, Romain (2015-10-20). "DigitalOcean Adds Floating IPs To Kill Server Downtime Once And For All". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  7. Kerner, Sean Michael (2014-09-05). "CoreOS Brings Docker Container Tech to DigitalOcean". eWeek. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  8. Lardinois, Frederic (2015-08-11). "DigitalOcean Teams Up With Bitnami, Now Lets You Install Over 100 Web Apps With A Few Clicks". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  9. "50 Companies That May Be the Next Start-Up Unicorns". The New York Times. 2015-08-23. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  10. Alden, William (2014-03-06). "Andreessen Horowitz Backs DigitalOcean, a Cloud Computing Start-Up". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  11. Cao, Jing (2015-07-08). "Amazon Web Services Competitor DigitalOcean Raises $83 Million". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  12. Barbaschow, Asha (2015-07-09). "Cloud service DigitalOcean raises $83m in latest funding round". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  13. Kerner, Sean Michael (2015-07-08). "DigitalOcean Raises $83M to Help Move Cloud Provider Forward". eWeek. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  14. Iskold, Alex (2015-08-14). "How DigitalOcean Won Over Investors". Entrepreneur. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  15. Dillet, Romain (2014-03-06). "DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz To Take On AWS". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  16. Novet, Jordan (2015-07-08). "DigitalOcean just raised $83M and you don't even know what it is. Allow me to explain". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  17. Novet, Jordan (2014-12-15). "Why growing cloud DigitalOcean isn't scared of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  18. Clark, Jack (2014-03-06). "Linux cloud world's best kept secret DigitalOcean just bagged $37m". The Register. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  19. Sharwood, Simon (2015-01-14). "DigitalOcean adds FreeBSD, explores cloudy Windows". The Register. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  20. McAllister, Neil (2014-09-06). "DigitalOcean floats alpha images of Docker-happy CoreOS". The Register. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  21. Clark, Jack (2013-08-07). "VCs toss gold into DigitalOcean". The Register. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  22. Jackson, Joab (2014-09-05). "Cloud host DigitalOcean catches Docker fever". Network World. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow DigitalOcean to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

  Cunard ( talk) 08:26, 14 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• • Add a couple more to your list; Gartner has given praise to DigitalOcean ( http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2014/07/28/aws-2q14-and-why-the-sky-is-not-falling/), and ThoughtWorks included them on three Technology Radars ( https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms/digitalocean). It'd be nice if the nominator would have done some WP:BEFORE legwork. riffic ( talk) 02:36, 15 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Keep. Cunard hit it out of the park. Even if some sources are flimsy, the WSJ, NYT and Register articles do it for me. BethNaught ( talk) 08:58, 14 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Keep. Because, are you f***ing serious? They've undergone a few series funding rounds and had PLENTY of press each time its happened. Very notable at this point. riffic ( talk) 21:22, 14 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Keep per Cunard's sources. clpo13_{( talk)} 21:24, 14 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Keep notability has been clearly established. The nominator states that the reliable sources are merely promotion -- this appears to be an opinion that articles in the business press are suspect. Sbwoodside ( talk) 21:19, 16 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Comment. What this is showing is that we have no consensus on what sort of coverage is sufficient, and what sources are reliable. We need to discuss those things one by one. Are reports of funding/IPO, for example sufficient? -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:47, 17 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• In the tech industry, funding events are a common trigger event for coverage of a company. The sources will often use the funding event as a hook for an article about the company. Most of the articles aren't simply about the funding, they include news about the company and its products. Sbwoodside ( talk) 05:52, 17 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Depth of coverage says:

  Deep coverage provides an organization with a level of attention that extends well beyond routine announcements and makes it possible to write more than a very brief, incomplete stub about an organization.

  I agree that trivial mentions of a company's getting funded is routine business. But if sources provide "deep coverage" (which is the case here), then the company is considered notable under the "deep coverage" standard.

  And in this case, there are numerous sources about the company's history and products that are unrelated to the funding.

  Cunard ( talk) 07:30, 17 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Keep But promotional content should be removed, if not possible then delete. Mirror360 ( talk) 13:15, 18 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Striking vote of sockpuppet per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Scholarscentral. Cunard ( talk) 05:48, 19 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Weak delete / userify many promo sources, promo content but seems worthy and been around a while. I share DGGs sentiments. It's a choice of what we want WP to be, and whether we keep promo content or have a higher level of protection for promo on WP. This one appears borderline, so I could see it both ways. I'm 100% convinced that a single list (including an outpouring of promo sources - without going through them all, I'm speculating) isn't a good way to decern, but two lists - one discounted promo sources and one not may help. Widefox; talk 13:27, 18 November 2015 (UTC) reply
  • What do you mean by a list or two lists? -- Sbwoodside ( talk) 20:36, 19 November 2015 (UTC) reply

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