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My name is Judy Huang and I work in marketing at Khosla Ventures. I received an email from "Get Your Wiki" advertising their services, looked at the page, and noticed the page was nominated for deletion shortly before the email was sent. And so, here I am.
I wanted to make a few comments:
Reliable sources state Khosla Ventures is notable. For example,
The New York Times said Khosla Ventures is "one of the most prominent venture firms" and said
here that Khosla is "one of the top venture capital firms investing in clean technology."
The current page has many poor sources, broken links, promotion/trivia, etc. and a controversy at the end that is about a different company. I would like to offer
a proposed rewrite that would address this by summarizing good quality citations, like mainstream newspapers and a book.
Move to Drafts The article is a mess and refbombed. Of the references I've read, none meet the criteria for establishing notability. But if
Mums3435 wants to have a go at fixing it up and can, more importantly, find references that meet *both*
WP:CORPDEPTH and
WP:ORGIND, I say it makes sense to move it to draft.
HighKing++ 16:14, 21 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: The nomination is by a banned sock.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 18:55, 23 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Sandstein:. I work for Khosla Ventures. The timing and content of emails I received from “Get Your Wiki” inferred they were the ones that nominated the page for deletion and were operating the now-banned CleanAmbassy account. The latest email I got from them also inferred they were – at the very least – monitoring this discussion (not sure if they have participated though). The apparent scheme is to nominate the page for deletion, then get hired to “save” it from being deleted. Not sure if this information helps in your investigation of covert Wikipedia manipulation. I noticed they are not yet listed at
WP:PAIDLIST. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. Best regards.
Mums3435 (
talk)
20:13, 23 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Close "No consensus" without prejudice against re-nomination: It seems to me that this is the only outcome which neutralises the risk of gaming by reputation management commerce.
AllyD (
talk)
08:38, 27 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep I find this nom wholly without merit, and the subject clearly notable in light of the refs. Yes, the article could do with a once-over, to tidy up the content and citations, but that's no reason to kill it. --
DoubleGrazing (
talk)
08:53, 27 October 2020 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
My name is Judy Huang and I work in marketing at Khosla Ventures. I received an email from "Get Your Wiki" advertising their services, looked at the page, and noticed the page was nominated for deletion shortly before the email was sent. And so, here I am.
I wanted to make a few comments:
Reliable sources state Khosla Ventures is notable. For example,
The New York Times said Khosla Ventures is "one of the most prominent venture firms" and said
here that Khosla is "one of the top venture capital firms investing in clean technology."
The current page has many poor sources, broken links, promotion/trivia, etc. and a controversy at the end that is about a different company. I would like to offer
a proposed rewrite that would address this by summarizing good quality citations, like mainstream newspapers and a book.
Move to Drafts The article is a mess and refbombed. Of the references I've read, none meet the criteria for establishing notability. But if
Mums3435 wants to have a go at fixing it up and can, more importantly, find references that meet *both*
WP:CORPDEPTH and
WP:ORGIND, I say it makes sense to move it to draft.
HighKing++ 16:14, 21 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: The nomination is by a banned sock.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 18:55, 23 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Sandstein:. I work for Khosla Ventures. The timing and content of emails I received from “Get Your Wiki” inferred they were the ones that nominated the page for deletion and were operating the now-banned CleanAmbassy account. The latest email I got from them also inferred they were – at the very least – monitoring this discussion (not sure if they have participated though). The apparent scheme is to nominate the page for deletion, then get hired to “save” it from being deleted. Not sure if this information helps in your investigation of covert Wikipedia manipulation. I noticed they are not yet listed at
WP:PAIDLIST. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. Best regards.
Mums3435 (
talk)
20:13, 23 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Close "No consensus" without prejudice against re-nomination: It seems to me that this is the only outcome which neutralises the risk of gaming by reputation management commerce.
AllyD (
talk)
08:38, 27 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep I find this nom wholly without merit, and the subject clearly notable in light of the refs. Yes, the article could do with a once-over, to tidy up the content and citations, but that's no reason to kill it. --
DoubleGrazing (
talk)
08:53, 27 October 2020 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.