Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/24 Hour Knowledge Factory (2nd nomination)


 * 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   redirect to Follow-the-sun.  MBisanz  talk 04:00, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

24 Hour Knowledge Factory
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WP:VSCA; reads like a spammy essay. KurtRaschke (talk) 17:49, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Kind of self published. Borock (talk) 18:28, 30 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Agreed... Fail WP:RS. The article is also a copyvio as far as I can see... --Pmedema (talk) 18:30, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I am not sure if this is the right forum, but the page is not a spam and please verify carefully the sources of article before flagging it for deletion. The content is verifiable and doe nit violates any copyvio Billyoffshore (talk) 19:03, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. All sources given in the article were (co-)authored or supervised by Dr. Gupta, the apparent inventor of the term, as are most of the 62 google scholar hits I find for "24 Hour Knowledge Factory". The only third party in-depth coverage I find is at, and I'm not even sure if that's a reliable source. In my opinion the term /concept fails WP:NOTE, and the concerns from the last AfD, of which this is a repost (in violation of GFDL, since that one was authored by User:Yuu.david) have not been adressed. Amalthea Talk 23:32, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Also note Follow-the-sun where the concept is already described. Might be a merge-target for some of the content? -- Amalthea Talk 23:36, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete for the reasons mentioned above. And there is a distinct smell of COI here: I found this statement, "The author of this page is contributing to the English version of Wikipedia," at the bottom of the last of the 'sources.' Drmies (talk) 02:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep (or refactor/merge with Follow-the-sun, ala Amalthea )  I agree, that the article as-is reads very spammy and lacks sufficient links to put into proper context; however, the concept is gaining traction in both academia and the business community (as signaled by the WSJ article, testing at IBM, etc.).  Overall, it's a legit concept and should be retained as a reference for the broader community.  I am not an author of this Wikipedia article, however, I am sufficiently familiar with the material that I would be willing to rewrite it or refactor it with Follow-the-sun should we decide it is worth retaining in some way.  (WolverineMatt)
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 * "Gaining traction" and "legit concept" is not enough to pass WP:NOTABILITY. For encyclopaedic inclusion it must already be notable. -- Amalthea Talk 10:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to Follow-the-sun. The concept is definitely notable, and there is verifiable material here that can be useful there. I think that more than a short explicit section about "24 Hour Knowledge Factory" would be undue weight though since, per above, the term seems hardly notable outside of Dr. Gupta's research, and I too am worried about conflict of interest, particularly since a surprising number of new accounts are caring about these articles. --  Amalthea Talk 10:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)


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