Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nordost

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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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nordost

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Another marketer of expensive audio cables that fails WP:CORP and whose article reads like spam. Also see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pear Cable Audio Cables for a similar example. Tubezone 02:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

  • delete: as above. - Rainwarrior 02:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. Sharkface217 03:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. MER-C 05:06, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. 1ne 05:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy Delete vanispamcruftisement. Danny Lilithborne 22:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep: There is no legitimate reason to delete this comany profile. The original request reveals the biased reason for requesting deletion, namely that the person does not like the pricing of the products that are offered. Product pricing is not a relevant issue to article deletion. This company meets the WP:CORP requirements just at Pear Cable Audio Cables does due to the fact that it has been written about by independent people from various industry publications.Apblake 23:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC) — Apblake (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
    • Comment What I wrote in the summary is accurate. The cables (interconnects from $100 to over $4,000 per meter, Click here and and here for examples) are expensive. There are no assertions or references in the article to establish that this company passes the WP corporate notability guidelines, the article pretty much reads like a press release (except for one line) and contains linkspam. Whether I happen to like the product and its pricing or not is irrelevant. If you want to contest a deletion, there's a place to do that, WP:DRV.Tubezone 01:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment Whatchoo talkin' bout, Willis. Danny Lilithborne 23:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, this company isn't even close to meeting WP:CORP. Absolutely no sign of any non-trivial coverage by independent reliable sources, which is what WP:CORP explicitly demands. Xtifr tälk 03:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, as it fails WP:CORP guidelines by having no non-trivial coverage by reliable sources. NeoChaosX (he shoots, he scores!) 07:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Multiple sources of non-trivial(important in the industy) independent coverage: HomeTheaterHiFi StereophileApblake 13:49, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Comment Mentions in publications that Nordost advertises in are trivial in my opinion, besides, both cater to the high-end vanity-stereo clique, which makes using them as examples similar to a webcomic using mentions in a 'zine about webcomics to establish notability. Neither mention is particularly pertinent to establishing notability in the wire and cable industry, either. JMHO. Tubezone 15:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as a non-notable firm unless real non-trivial sources can be found. Montco 23:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Stereophile Magazine is not a trivial source. It is probably the most important high-end audio magazine in the United States, if not the world. It even has a wikipedia page stereophile. If you feel that this magazine is trivial, then I suggest you nominate their page for deletion as well. In regards to the Tubezone comments on advertising, if you want to insinuate that the publications are publishing biased editorial based on their advertisers, then I would say that the burden of proof is on you. These are highly respected publications.Apblake 23:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Comment Re Stereophile, WP:INN. I think it's fair to say that nearly every company that advertises in Stereophile extensively, sooner or later gets an editorial mention or article, if for no other reason than because their readers buy the magazine to read about stereo components. In this context I do not think that Stereophile mentions are useful for establishing notability in the electronics or wire and cable industry. That's just my opinion. Tubezone 10:59, 4 December 2006 (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.