Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patentcafe

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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. There has been no effort on the article since nomination, and the problems remain despite the warning of having had it deleted once already. -Splash - tk 18:51, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Patentcafe

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Does not meet notability guidelines for companies, Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). Especially the company has not been the subject of substantial coverage in independent, reliable, secondary sources. Incidentally, the name of the main contributor hints at a conflict of interest. (The article was speedied, then recreated). Delete. Edcolins 10:00, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Comment, I originally marked to speedy the document, per G11 after the user had stated his/her intentions to improve it, I removed the tag in hopes that article could be saved. VivioFateFan (Talk, Sandbox) 11:02, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - The article currently lacks external sources, and a Google search only turns up a smattering of non-PR hits, most of which are related to the founder. This actually suggests that the founder of the company is more notable than the company itself; he's been quoted in a couple articles and written several more for Entrepreneur Magazine ([1], [2],[3], [4]). --jonny-mt(t)(c)Tell me what you think! 05:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Full disclosure - I speedied the original article and then provided advice to the creator on how best to go about creating an article that would not get deleted. See the conversation here, here, and here. Unfortunately, I failed to respond to his last message, figuring he had gotten along fine until I recieved the AfD notice. --jonny-mt(t)(c)Tell me what you think! 05:07, 12 November 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.