Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Okova

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 of the debate was DELETE. With thanks to the contributor for his good-faith contribution, but sorry it it not yet notable enough to belong here. -Doc ^ask? 19:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Okova

Delete - Company with no claims of notability. Defo looks like an advertisement. Wickethewok 19:21, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete this spam as fast as possible... -- Scientizzle 20:05, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Spam/advert. -- MarcoTolo 21:43, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - nn Company abakharev 08:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• As it says in the Wikipedia manual - "Please do not bite the newcomers".

I appreciate that my first entry was minimal and could be seen as spam (the idea of contributing to the wiki just suddenly struck me as I was going home so I put something up as a placeholder), but it takes time to build up a decent entry, not to mention get familiar with the system.

As it says in the article, okova stands as a business concept which we are developing with real world experimentation - i.e. making real products to see if OSS can be used commercially in this way.

I certainly don't know exactly how you define notability. We are known about by our customers - from famous photographers and artists, to successful consultants, teachers, and also by our those good causes to whome we donate our software. We also have ongoing interaction with UK universities who think what we are doing is interesting enough to warrant it. I suspect that we are more notable, and becoming more notable, (we certainly are developing more impressive technology) than many other entries on Wikipedia such as WinLike.

The bottom line is that the okova concept has been around for a couple of years and is not dying out. It represents a method for doing business which generates interest in others and is worth recording on a non-paper encyclopedia. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.158.128.44 (talk • contribs)

• I think you may misunderstand the essential "point" of Wikipedia (WP). WP is not a forum for advertising a new idea, getting the word out, generating interest in a business product, or becoming more notable. WP is an encyclopedia. Period. Notatibility is convered extensively in Wikipedia:Notability or, for a more formal exposition, see WP:NOT. -- MarcoTolo 17:16, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

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