Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scintilla Iceland


 * 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.  Sandstein  18:48, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Scintilla Iceland

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Only one thin reference to a blog (not a WP:Reliable source) even hints that this company may meet WP:N or WP:CORP. Removed CSD because it "barely" escapes db-corp in my mind, but it could go down that way. AFD is a "stronger" deletion than CSD because it prevents the same text from being put back, forcing anyone who wants to write about this company to do a rewrite, hopefully with sufficient references to withstand AFD. Note that this page was at AFC but moved to the main encyclopedia by its primary author,. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  17:04, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  17:04, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iceland-related deletion discussions. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  17:04, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment AFC comment which may be relevant to this discussion and any future AFD, deletion review, or AFC on this article or topic. The key item is the one reference which, while a blog and therefore not acceptable, strongly hints that other suitable sources may exist about this company.  It's up to the proponents of this article to find and add such sources before this AFD closes.


 * davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  17:11, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment While a draft, this page was named . I'm putting this here mainly for the benefit of any future discussion that may happen concerning this topic, it is not relevant to the current discussion.  Not to be confused with Scintilla, which is a disambiguation page. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  17:24, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep there is substantial coverage about the company in the Icelandic media, such as in Kjarninn, Morgunblaðið, Fréttablaðið and Fréttatíminn. Alvaldi (talk) 19:03, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * can you find two unrelated independent-source, reliable-source articles that provide significant coverage? If the sources are offline or in "picture only" format like the links above, can you provide an English-language summary of the whole article and, if the whole article isn't about the company, a summary of the part that is and tell us how much of the article is about the company? In the alternative, point me in the direction of a free picture-translation web site. This could help demonstrate the company's notability.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  01:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * All the sources I linked to are archived on timarit.is which is a joint website of the National Museums of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands and archives most or all printed newspapers in those countries. It used to have a feature which allowed the reader to view a text only version of the articles but it seems to have been discontinued. This article from 2015 on page 13 from the Morgunblaðið (the largest major newspaper in the Iceland) covers Scintilla's history, key employees and products. This article from 2018 from Dagblaðið Vísir (a major newspaper in Iceland) on page 38 covers the company and its products. From 1910 to 2009 there are 14 separate pages that feature the word Scintilla in the Timarit archives. From its founding in 2010 to 2020 there are 143 separate pages, and that excludes the last three years of the Morgunblaðið (there is a 3 year grace period before their papers are displayed in the archives). Browsing through the headlines, there seem to be regular stories about new product lines from them and grants that they have recived. The founder of the company, Linda Björg Árnadóttir, also has several articles featuring her . Alvaldi (talk) 16:08, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete or Stub down - I have not reviewed the sourcing, but this is an advertisement masquerading as an article. A G11 might have been in order, but we are here.  Robert McClenon (talk) 19:05, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Per Wikipedia guidlines, deletion is not cleanup. Removing the promotional parts out of the article would still leave some meat on the bones that can be sourced. Alvaldi (talk) 19:58, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as a blatant advertisement. Practically all of the available coverage is in the sponsored sections of the newspapers or in those sponsored / filler material sub-papers printed alongside the main paper. Not a clear WP:GNG pass for me. – Thjarkur (talk) 16:20, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * how do you respond to this? davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  18:02, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Promotional article. 1292simon (talk) 07:54, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Looks and reads like an advertisement, and I'm not convinced by the references offered above. They look to be more the same, churnalism. Fails WP:ORGCRITE, WP:SIRS. WP:PROMO.   scope_creep Talk  09:49, 6 November 2020 (UTC)


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