User talk:AlexisGCA

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AlexisGCA (talk) 20:04, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I would like to clean up the content and fix the citations on Egumball Inc. How do I see where the issues are? Thank you AlexisGCA (talk) 20:04, 20 October 2014 (UTC)


 * What you should be most concerned with is the deletion discussion at Articles for deletion/Egumball Inc.. I have to agree with McGeddon's rationale for deletion: There's not a single independent source that covers the company in any detail. Huon (talk) 20:25, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * PRWire and PRNewswire are press release outlets - we disregard them for notability. Likewise the company's own site. Not independent. A ranking of 58th out of 500 is not notable. It's better than 58th out of 59, but as we don't know how the rating is achieved, it doesn't mean much. We also disregard Alexa ratings unless they are low - because that almost certainly means non-notable. (Higher positions can be fiddled, just as Facebook likes and YouTube views can - and are.) Read WP:CORP about notability for companies, and WP:RS about the reliable independent sources everyone's going on about. No PR stuff, Facebook etc, CrunchBase, LinkedIn, forums, wikis, weebly or wordpress pages, supplied profiles, 'interviews' where the thing was cooked up by the PR people (who usually can't understand how we spot it), and no mere mentions in articles about something else or in lists of things. Don't be too down-hearted if this goes legs up. The vast majority of companies don't get articles. Even one with a very large turnover whose products were on millions of American tables every day. (They made own-brand goods for chain stores - not a thing left the factory with their own name on it.) MelanieN is saying 'delete', and she's the one I usually pass requests for help to. She's rescued things I had no hope for, but obviously she's had no luck with this one. The discussion looks to be fair so far (last poster Deli nk) - they're not 'delete it at any cost' people there. Peridon (talk) 21:14, 20 October 2014 (UTC)