Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Airvana (2nd nomination)

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.

The result was 'Keep'. Until(1 == 2) 15:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Airvana

Airvana (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

company's copyright issue 11:57, 11 July 2007 User:Gaurav.pal

• Keep. (Originally I voted Delete). At User_talk:Anthony_Appleyard#Airvana_Deletion_Request the creator of this article, User:Gaurav.pal, requested that it be deleted. There is also a long and intricate story about a copyvio that was cited, then fixed, a move of the article, a histmerge, etc. etc. In the first AfD Anthony stated that the article no longer qualifies for {{db-author}}. I removed the db-author template from the article to reduce confusion, and am voting to delete here, on the basis of the author's request. See also some helpful info in the first AfD. EdJohnston 17:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I changed my vote to Keep (see above). There was some copyvio in the first version of the article, which has now been fixed, though someone should still go through carefully to be sure there isn't any copyvio left. This is a 500-person company that exceeded $100 million in revenue in 2005 and has contracts with a number of big-name technology companies, so I am confident it will satisfy WP:CORP if someone digs up all the references. I hope I will get the time to improve the article a bit more, but the company itself is clearly notable, in my view. EdJohnston 19:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep, provisionally. The previous Afd was for an article whose content was first a redirect, then a blank page, then a blank page with nothing but an Afd template on it, and it's only editor was the author. Now it's a different article with different content and even a different history. This article seems to be about a reasonably notable company. We can't simply go around deleting articles based on vague insinuations of copyright infringement. If the nominator does something to demonstrate that the article violates copyright, then this vote will of course be invalid, but that something will have to be more than mere assertion. Deranged bulbasaur 21:04, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• History:
  • At 14:15, 6 September 2005 User:Arvindtm created page Airvana, and afterwards edited it.
  • At 16:06, 2 October 2005 User:Avocado tagged Airvana as copyvio.
  • At 17:33, 22 October 2005 User:RedWolf deleted Airvana.
  • At 09:21, 15 June 2007 User:Gaurav.pal created page Airvana as a stub.
  • At 13:54, 6 July 2007 User:Gaurav.pal expanded Airvana into a long page, which he afterwards edited.
  • At 07:06, 11 July 2007 User:Gaurav.pal reduced page Airvana to a stub, and then moved it the usual way (taking with it all previous edits which had not been deleted) to Wrong entry in wiki, where it was later speedy-delete-tagged. This left Airvana as a redirect.
  • Around 07.40, 11 July 2007 User:Gaurav.pal blanked and AfD-tagged Airvana.
  • At 09:04, 11 July 2007 User:Anthony Appleyard histmerged Wrong entry in wiki back into Airvana.
  • At 09:09, 11 July 2007 User:Anthony Appleyard reverted Airvana to the last substantial version (but kept the AfD tag); later people edited it.
  • At 10:48, 11 July 2007 User:Utcursch deleted Wrong entry in wiki, which by then was a redirect to Airvana.

Anthony Appleyard 22:08, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request

• i admit that i created the article Airvana and when i came to know that company's copyright does not allow that, having no idea how to delete that i moved contents to "Wrong entry in wiki" and blanked the page thinking some bot will remove that. i apologies because at that time i have no idea how a page is deleted from wikipedia. Now i request to please remove that page. gapal... 04:46, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy delete?: As most of the edits to Airvana that have not been lost by deletion or reversion, were done by gapal... , gapal... is wondering whether Airvana can be speedy-deleted as a {{db-author}}. Anthony Appleyard 05:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
• Hey! at least inform me what more is needed to delete this article... 18:04, 15 July 2007 gapal...
• see Deletion_policy#Copyright_violations and contents of the page was takenn from about_factsheet.htm 18:12, 15 July 2007 gapal...
• Airvana's only incoming link was from List of IT Companies in Bangalore, where I have replaced the link to the copyvio page Airvana by a link to the external site that the copyvio page was a copyvio of. Anthony Appleyard 06:36, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] withdraw the deletion request

After this discussion with Appleyard and EdJohnston, i think it is fine the keep that article. so i withdraw the request to delete it. Also I am removing the deletion request tag from the page. SO please close this discussion. gapal... 04:56, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Please don't remove the banner without official action. I restored the banner to the article. Wait for someone who knows the procedure to close the AfD. A participant in the AfD is not qualified to do that. EdJohnston 15:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

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.