Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Checkmarx (3rd nomination)


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 00:25, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Checkmarx
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A previous article on this company was deleted as non-notable; the present version was created just a few days ago. It was full of promotional language and marketing speak, most of which I've removed. However, I'm not satisfied that what remains meets our sourcing and notability requirements. A large majority of the references are still to the company's own publications, and even the seemingly independent sources used to establish notability are suspect. (For example, one of the claims to notability is an award at a regional OWASP conference, though the company itself sponsored this conference. Also, some of the media coverage is quite clearly simply reprints of Chekmarx press releases.) Psychonaut (talk) 19:08, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The promotional language was re-inserted today by the article's original author. I won't remove it again for fear of starting an edit war, but will wait until this AfD is complete. —Psychonaut (talk) 06:36, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete and salt: an application security company that develops next generation static code analysis software. Highly unusual circumstances would be needed to make such a business an encyclopedia subject, and trade awards nobody outside the industry has ever heard of (if anyone inside has) do not make such a case. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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