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Admins have removed notable information - inserted Primary Source Material and made this an advertisement. Violates WP:NOR and does not fulfill WP:CORP with all of the press worthy information removed.WizardOfWor 11:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

  • This is confusing. "Admins have removed notable information???" To what purpose? Upon perusing the history log, fluff was removed from the article, NOT notable content. As for WP:CORP, how does that relate to this article? The company apparently has a rather interesting technology known as Hypercable; I suspect including material on this alone would suffice for notability. Aarktica 14:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I do not agree. This company helped to found an industry not only with Equipment but with legal challenges and then by being prohibited from US sales and imports by a US Federal Court. Why is that FLUFF? Without the "fluff," this "company," now a shell, is not notable. Your link is to marketing material, not a report from a customer or press. Are you familiar with this technology? As well, the inventor of the "technology" left the company due to the "fluff." If the technology is Notable, why is the exit of the inventor, not notable? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WizardOfWor (talk • contribs) 2007-03-27 15:19:15 (UTC)
  • Dubious original research from primary sources was used to make the article an attack piece [1]; after a review of the sources due to a complaint to WP:OTRS, I found that little to none of the information of the article was even mentioned in the sources. This article was then stubbified. [2] Since then the only changes have been corrections to basic factual information per the company's website by an employee of the company. Nominator posted this AfD after being unsuccessful at keeping article in his preferred version, which included the attacks and misinformation. Might be worth a note that the nominator also uploaded a company logo for the article claiming self-public domain as the license (obviously, this has been deleted). I will be researching whether or not company meets WP:CORP as follow up to the OTRS request and will update my comments here. Shell babelfish 17:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Here are some secondary sources I believe qualify the article under the notability guidelines:
  1. Bonisteel, Steven. "MDS Gains Ground In Bid To Share Satellite Spectrum - Company Business and Marketing", Newsbytes News Network, The Washington Post Company, 2001-05-08.
  2. "Northpoint Technology Underscores MITRE Report Finding of Spectrum Sharing Feasibility", Business Wire, Berkshire Hathaway, 2001-05-15.
  3. "MDS America bolstered by FCC decision to open and auction DBS terrestrial spectrum", Wireless Satellite and Broadcasting Newsletter, 2002-05-01.
This does appear to be a rather brief spurt of media attention though and the company doesn't have an article in the French Wikipedia, which one would expect since it is headquartered there. Just a guess, but I believe the current edit war may stem from an on-going court case, participants in the edit war appear to represent one company or the other: MDS America, Inc. v. MDS International,SARI,  04-72353-DT  (E.D.Mich. 2005-12-27)Shell babelfish 05:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
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