Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Business Awards


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 18:31, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

European Business Awards

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Almost totally unsourced and ridden with promotionalism throughout.
 * (1) No sourcing is given for any of the information about the organization. I find  It  is not even sourceable to their web site, which gives no information about the  organization: only a list of judges and award winners.  The only sourcing in the article of any sort for any of the material is the statements of a few of the many recipients that they have won an award.  Looking for more, I find almost nothing except many other statements from companies they have won an award, published in press release or local news outlets. The two exceptions re two press releases:   and . They have the same extensive text about the company as does the WP article. The WP article is not a copy of either--it was here first. Nor do I think they copied the WP article--it seems they both are essentially copies of some material the company prepares for its press releases.   The second of the releases gives some additional information that the awards are primarily  sponsored by "RSM International... a worldwide network of independent accounting and consulting firms. ", and other sponsors  R|SM. The London  Stock Exchange's " ELITE, the Pan European programme set up by London Stock Exchange Group to support high growth European SMEs"
 * (2) As for promotionalism, just read the article. Sections 1 and 2 contain essentially nothing else, and the rest of the article is just the list of awards.
 * (3). This article has been here since 2006. It was shorter then, but no better. It might seem incredible that material of this sort could survive this long, but it's not uncommon here: I would call it disgraceful rather the incredible. The reason I nominated here instead of just using G11 was to call attention to the problem. (& because the awards are used as contributing to notability in about 50 WP articles. Any article dependent on them needs to be   considered for deletion).  DGG ( talk ) 18:15, 21 August 2015 (UTC)  DGG ( talk ) 18:15, 21 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep and work with WP:WikiProject Europe to find sourcing, especially sourcing behind paywalls (e.g., LexisNexis, ft.com) and in languages other than English. As self-serving as the article is (and that could be changed), it looks like more than a few companies have entered the competition and it's got testimonials (see http://www.businessawardseurope.com/about# "What other people think of the European Business Awards") from half a dozen ministers and unspecified support from a ministry of the British government (UK Trade & Investment). Alternately, redirect to a yet-to-be-written general article about business awards in Europe (see http://www.europaeischer-unternehmensfoerderpreis.de/, http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Le-palmares-des-Prix-Entreprises.html, Swedish Business Awards, as examples of other business awards in Europe). -- DanielPenfield (talk) 10:59, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Many companies have entered the competition, and a great many seem to have put  out press releases saying they won. Not everything supported in some vague way by the UK Government is notable, nor would I even regard that as an sign thatit's likely to be--any gov't and its agencies will be involved in many more non-notable thing than notable ones. Testimonials on a organization's page mean nothing -- or less than nothing-- a notable organization does not need them.  DGG ( talk ) 23:09, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 04:07, 28 August 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 01:52, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete, no convincing sources for notability, promotional tone throughout ("After rigorous face to face assessed in front of a judging panel, Ruban d’Honneur recipients are honoured and the names of the Award winners revealed as Europe’s top businesses at a glittering Awards ceremony"). I'd have speedy-deleted as purely promotional.  Sandstein   09:35, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom and Sandstein. Purely promotional article about a purely promotional award. Searches did not turn up anything which would show this is notable.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:48, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


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