Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ScanSource


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The result was delete. Tone 08:13, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

ScanSource

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I tried stubifying this as an alternative to deletion (since it's almost entirely an unsourced puff piece but looked like there was potential for notability), but IPs geolocating near the company's headquarters keep reverting that, so guess I'm going down the AfD path instead. Appears to fail WP:NCORP - the biggest claim to notability appears to be the "best places to work" and "Fortune's world's most admired companies." For the former, it's ~20th place on the list for several years, which doesn't seem especially noteworthy, and for the latter, I've failed to find significant coverage from Forbes explaining why it's "most admired" and it's not even in the top 100 on that list). This article is a puff piece without reliable sources, there have been a lot of IPs geolocating near the company's headquarters editing it, and the best coverage I found from a BEFORE was investment outlook and merger + acquisition news (textbook WP:MILL). GeneralNotability (talk) 18:20, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete as specified (I'd even consider for G11).  DGG ( talk ) 03:55, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment If this article is kept, it should be stubifed and semi-protected, as the promotional puffery was added by an IP owned by the company. Got flooded with WP:MILL corporate announcements when doing sources search so didn't look further, but I doubt there are no WP:RS for this publicly-listed company. Jumpytoo Talk 02:33, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


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