Talk:Doculabs

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[edit] Recommendation for deletion of article?

It was suggested that this article does not meet the notability requirements of a company or corporation to have an article on wikipedia. I disagree. Doculabs is a key player in the field of enterprise content management. They are linked to several times and we would be amis to not have an article on doculabs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maglish (talk • contribs)

I raised the original concern. To pass the notability requirements, a company needs to either be used to index a stock market, be listed on one of the rankings for important companies (e.g., Fortune 500 and the like), or have multiple non-trivial independent publications cover it (news articles and the like, but not press releases or company PR material that's reprinted). (Specific language of the editorial guideline is at Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations).) Does Doculabs meet any of those?

Also, please sign your posts to Talk pages by ending your post with four tildes (~~~~). When you save your changes the tildes will be automatically turned into a signature and timestamp. Thanks! — Saxifrage ✎ 22:07, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Saxifrage - Thank you for your explanation and reasoning behind your earlier thoughts on deletion. I apologize for not signing my previous talk track. I'm still learning wiki-etiquette.

The following are just a few of the "non-trivial independent publications" that have covered Doculabs:

• AIIM.org (EDOC magazine in particular) has several articles written by various authors that have cited Doculabs or one of it's analysts as an expert. Most recently, John Harney cited Principal Analyst, Richard Medina in his article "Federated Records Management -- Prototypes and Vendor Hype" in May/June 2006
• Also, Doculabs has been covered in the Chicago Tribune and the Sun Times (although, admittedly, these articles are older)
• Doculabs is also a recognized expert in Content Management technology space with hundreds of published articles

maglish 22:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem, it's all learning on the job here. :)

This looks promising. The article will need to have some of these references added to it in a way that other people can follow them up in order for the article to assert Doculabs' notability. Can you find any specific links to articles that can be directly cited as demonstrating Doculabs' notability? I imagine the Tribune and Times articles aren't available online, but if you could dig up publication information for them then we can add them as an offline reference source. — Saxifrage ✎ 23:38, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your patience, Sax. I added a few article to test the waters a bit. My goal is to establish the importance of this company within the field of enteprise content management to an outsider. Unfortunately, this is such a recently (and always developing) field. Since Doculabs was around from the beginning anyone in this field knows about Doculabs, but newcomers usually have no idea who they are due to Doculabs specific area of expertise. maglish 14:56, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sounds like an ad?

The information under the "Business" heading reads like ad copy, which I understand to be at odds with Wikipedia standards. However, the article was otherwise useful to me as an IT professional researching content management systems-- I hope it is not deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.154.191.131 (talk) 21:44, 4 February 2008 (UTC)