Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Software Advice Inc.


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The result was   delete. Secret account 01:43, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Software Advice Inc.

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Promotional article for advertising advice organization. Content consists of a list of their markets, which seems to include everything possible. Awards are minor or local or both. "Fastest growing" almost always implies "not yet notable", for it's much easier to grow rapidly when you're very small. (as is this: 94 employees), The Huffington Post article is a press release, at the bottom it says: "Please contact [the author] to have your story told on these pages. "   ZD net article in this case seems to be a press release also: the President of the company  told it to the "reporter" at a resort, and he printed it. The others are the sort of local business journals that publishes anything from a local business/.

I find it incredible that this was actually accepted from afc. The least that can be expected of it is to screen out advertising.  DGG ( talk ) 17:29, 4 July 2014 (UTC)


 * It is not really written like an ad, but it just SCREAMS ad. Support EMachine03 (talk) 19:42, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:14, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Advertising-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:14, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:14, 5 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per DGG's good analysis. Only the first sentence in the entire article contains anything that describes why the company should be mentioned in an encyclopedia, and that's not enough to keep an article. The best source I could find that looked independent was this Austin Business Journal article on computer drift, that relegates it to a passing mention via a quotation from its founder. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:19, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom - although Don Formes, one of the principals, may be marginally notable. Bearian (talk) 21:49, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * While I am not convinced the company is notable (nor am I convinced it is non-notable), I do not agree with the harsh assessment of the AfC reviewer. The article doesn't read like an ad and the sources are credible at first glance.  AfC gets plenty of actual ads and almost always does a fine job of filtering those out.  --ThaddeusB (talk) 16:04, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
 * That is a fair comment, and while I sometimes like to improved passed AfC submissions to Did you know? standard, no AfC reviewer is obliged to do anything other than pass it if they are certain the article does not meet any criteria set out in the deletion policy. A article with a slanted POV but still notable may still pass. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:18, 8 July 2014 (UTC)


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