Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LawyerLocator.com


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The result was   delete. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 22:04, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

LawyerLocator.com

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No assertion of notability, and notability not demonstrated. There are a lot of sources listed, but a closer look indicates that they don't amount to substantial coverage in reliable, independent sources. Many sources don't even mention LawyerLocator.com. It almost seems like a coatrack, in that the entry and the sources are about LawyerLocator.com's parent company, LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, which of course already has its own Wikipedia page. As of the posting of this AFD, there are 20 sources, but consider this:
 * Source 1, Law.com, is a passing mention that Mac users can't use LawyerLocator.com, not substantial coverage
 * Sources 2, 3 and 4 (NYT, WSJ, WSJ blog) do not mention LawyerLocator.com, ony the parent company
 * Source 5, factoidz.com, is promotional - it is a listing that offers a coupon for LawyerLocator.com
 * Sources 6-11 do not mention LawyerLocator.com
 * Source 12 includes LawyerLocator.com in a list of legal directories, but there's no actual coverage
 * Sources 13 & 14 don't mention LawyerLocator.com
 * Source 15 mentions the "Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator Web site", but gives a different url for it, not LawyerLocator.com
 * Source 16 is another passing mention in a directory
 * Sources 17-20 don't mention LawyerLocator.com, and are primary sources

I strongly suspect this article was started for promotional reasons, and the history suggests that it's being edited by a PR team. Notability just hasn't been demonstrated here. Dawn Bard (talk) 16:43, 9 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Concur with nominators findings. Wikipedia is not a place to promote a website. Phearson (talk) 17:29, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. --  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 17:56, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - concur with notability concerns, promo concerns of nominator. --Nat Gertler (talk) 04:19, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.