Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kano (company)


 * 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 delete. Consensus that there are insufficient sources that meet all of reliable, independent (particularly), secondary and significant coverage about the company itself. Nosebagbear (talk) 19:25, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Kano (company)

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I've speeded this article twice in the past as G11 and G5, but the new version was created by a good-faith editor. Anyhow: referenciness is provided in the form of a handful of news stories that are based on press releases. It is not the spam it once was, but I do suspect it's a solicited contribution abusing the good faith of a decent editor outside what seem to be his normal areas of interest, I don't think it establishes WP:GNG and it certainly fails WP:CORP. Guy (help!) 17:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. The subject has garnered feature-level coverage in an array of reliable sources. Jweiss11 (talk) 12:05, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Question, can you provide links to references that meet the criteria for establishing notability please?  HighKing++ 16:06, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * HighKing, I think the five sources already referenced in the article go along away toward establishing notability. Some quick searches turn up more:, , Jweiss11 (talk) 16:27, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:22, 10 April 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Lacks in-depth coverage in reliable sources. The sources in the article seem to press releases and the ones provided in the AfD are about product releases and other trivial topics that fail WP:NCORP. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:34, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, buidhe 17:47, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I cannot find a single source meets the criteria for establishing the notability *of the company*. The references are based on company announcements and fails WP:ORGIND and/or WP:CORPDEPTH.
 * This from USA Today, this from CNBC and this from The Times are simply generic company-profile PR pieces. There is no Independent Content whatsoever, all of the information in the article concerning this company is provided by company executives (quotations/interviews) or the company themselves (number of units shipped, funding amounts raised, number of apps, etc). Fails WP:ORGIND
 * This from The Telegraph and this from Tech Crunch are entirely based on company announcements - one talks about the launch one of the company's products and the other talks about their announcement of upcoming layoffs. Fails WP:ORGIND.
 * This from VentureBeat is one of many articles in different publications all based on the joint announcement and dated from June 19/20 2019. Fails WP:ORGIND.
 * This from The Guardian and this from The Telegraph barely mentions the company but primarily information on the product which isn't the subject of this article, therefore fails WP:CORPDEPTH and WP:ORGIND
 * While lots of articles mentioning Kano can be found, they invariably are based entirely on information provided by the company or are reviews of one of their products. Topic fails GNG/NNCORP.  HighKing++ 16:06, 21 April 2020 (UTC)


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