Talk:ReachLocal

Notability
This organization has been nominated for deletion and deleted several times over the last few years for failing to meet the notability guidelines. I'm reading through the article and noting that it has all the same issues as it had before even though it has existed for a year and a half. Almost all the sources are self sourced and self promoting. The remaining "articles" are simply business listings. Out of all the sources only one source almost qualifies as an article and that's the IPO article however this would be categorized under "routine announcements". Please keep in mind there is no inherent notability in any organization. Meaning the presumption is for non-inclusion.

I'm going through the notability guidelines regarding "Depth of coverage" and i've noticed a few items the notability guidelines specifically mention do not count as sources of notability: "Inclusion in "best of", "top 100", and similar lists does not count towards notability at all" "brief announcements of mergers or sales of part of the business," i.e. the IPO article "quotations from an organization's personnel as story sources, or passing mention, such as identifying a quoted person as working for an organization." i.e. self published articles of which there's about a dozen "inclusion in lists of similar organizations" this applies to all the yahoo finance, crunchbase, iTunes, and deloitte business listings

I think it fails on the audience criteria. there's not broad coverage I think it fails on the independence of sources criteria. the only sources with any depth are self sourced promotional material. not independent ones. I see from the edit history this article has had significant edits for NPOV and one person has reverted it instead of coming to this talk page to hash it out. I think the original deletion of the material was sound.

So what i'm asking here is for someone to show that this company is notably. What has changed since the previous deletions of this organization from wikipedia? From what i see in this article it's virtually identical save for the manipulation of the references table counting the same self promoting source up to 10 times, falsely inflating the number of "sources" used for this article.

Jesse

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The above message was substituted from by PrimeBOT (talk) on 17:22, 2 January 2023 (UTC)