Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dcode


 * 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 soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 22:58, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Dcode

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No indication of notability under WP:NCORP. Would be fine re-draftifying back to draftspace, but there's only one source here that's definitely independent (TRT World). The TechBoiler and techtaalk were clearly just copied/rewritten from the same press release, and the PhoneWorld piece is an advertisement. Startup Pakistan has similar advertising/fluff issues. Alyo (chat·edits) 19:28, 25 July 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  20:15, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Technology,  and Pakistan.  Alyo  (chat·edits) 19:28, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment –  I think Startup Pakistan is mirroring these "press releases" on Phone World and Propakistani, so not RS. But will disagree that pieces on techtaalk and techBioler are press releases, there's nothing I can find on internet being published with same or similar content, so can argue that techtaalk (published 28 Oct) copied techBioler's independent piece (published 25 oct). As far as this phone World's article is concerned, this doesn't look advertisement to me (specially due to ending comments by writer and site's history of mentioning "press releases" as in this case for very same dcode. Thanks AHatd (talk) 16:26, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The issue with the techBoiler and techtaalk pieces is that they're almost identical to each other. Compare to  That's almost identical, just a couple words difference. If you go down the two pages, you see more of this:  versus  They both probably got an info sheet and just published it "in their own words", especially since both say "Lets support Pakistani companies" at the end. And if one copied the other, that doesn't make it better. techtaalk is not a reliable source and has no editorial information or even author listed. As for PhoneWorld, there's a light grey "Advertisement" right under the first paragraph, and then again at the end of the piece. I'm assuming that refers to the piece, as there's no other advertisement that loads in those spots for me even without adblockers.  Alyo  (chat·edits) 16:43, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Like phoneWorld's article in the discussion, virtually each and every PhoneWorld article has that light grey "Advertisement" section thrice (at top, in body and at ending), like here and here. And as I already agreed that techtaalk copy/pasted techBioler opinion, so techtaalk can't be argued as WP:RS, but same is not true for techBioler. Thanks AHatd (talk) 19:47, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. <b style="font-family: Courier; color: darkgreen;"> HighKing</b>++ 18:09, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
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