Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CourseTrends


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The result was   delete. The Bushranger One ping only 04:29, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

CourseTrends

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The article does not appear to describe a company that meets Wikipedia's notability criteria. Prod removed by the author, with no addition of sources, and I was unable to find reliable sources with my own search. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:55, 24 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Lack of secondary sources AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 23:22, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Zero coverage in independent reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 17:08, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - Aside from good details like the history, the article is promotional and entirely unreferenced and could probably be deleted as speedy criteria G11. My first Google News search, "CourseTrends Austin Texas" provided press releases from a website, WorldGolf.com, which looked like genuine news at first but I realized they weren't when I clicked them. Another search with the founder and CEO, Alan Stalcup, provided one of those articles again (November 16, 2006). However, my third search provided something rather interesting here (second result from the top) which seems to mention them in 2006 but it requires payment, there isn't much through the preview and jconline.com (the newspaper's website) does not provide the article for free and redirects to pqarchiver.com. Looking again at my first search, I realized there's another news article on page 3 here (last result at the bottom) which also mentions them and notes they are from Austin, Texas, suggesting it is indeed them. A search at that newspaper's website (lohud.com) provided some "Haverstraw Town Board reports" but none from 2009 and only from 2012 and 2011. After some other searches, I found this which mentions them a small number of times for a three-year contract but nothing substantial about them. Additional searches with some of their clients and their COO Warner Mizell provided nothing. Although the large number of worldgolf.com press releases is unsettling, the few news articles I found suggest the company has received small coverage but it is not enough for an article especially for notability. SwisterTwister   talk  03:04, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete The only sources I find are worldgolf.com which is a WP:PRIMARY source as they are publications of press releases. Does not seem to meet WP:COMPANY. Mkdw talk 19:47, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete No third party reliable sources covering the topic. — Ṙ  ΛΧΣ  21  02:25, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
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