Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Certiport's Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office 2012


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 00:56, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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Not-notable student Competition of some year. Organized by presumably not-notable company: Certiport. Only 3 affiliated web pages are linked (two on certiport website, third is press release of certiport). `a5b (talk) 11:27, 9 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. Google Web search for (certiport "microsoft office" competition) yielded lots of Certiport's own web pages and press releases, but no evidence of in-depth coverage by independent media.  Searching Google News for these terms produced nothing.  Searching Google News Archives for the same terms yielded lots of press releases, and a few local stories on contestants; the latter included very little background material on the competition itself, generally including no more than a paragraph or so that appeared to be taken straight from a Certiport press release.  Fails WP:GNG.  Ammodramus (talk) 12:26, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep. This article could easily be renamed to remove the year from the title and the content refocused on the competition in general, so I looked for sources based on that idea. Looking in the Google News archives, this 2010 CNet article is an OK source. There are a couple results in a Microsoft magazine: 2005 and another from 2005. I also found some local stories like Ammodramus mentioned: 2006 Singapore, 2010 Nigeria, 2011 Nigeria, 2010 Malaysia, 2010 US, 2011 US, and more behind paywalls. It seems like enough information is available in those articles to write a short article without original research, so I'll default to keep, but I don't know if it's substantial enough to really be notable. The company has similar notability - there are some short news articles about it, but not a lot of them. Dreamyshade (talk) 06:56, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Theopolisme   ( talk  )  22:23, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete as hilarious as it would be to think that there's some wacky alternate-universe Olympics out there where the games are things like spreadsheets, this seems to be a non-notable contest with a top prize of just $5K. Article seems to exist as a means of sneaking a mention of Certiport (and some external links, naturally) in through the back door, so to speak.  There was once an article on Certiport itself but it was deleted ages ago. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  00:10, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
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