Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Starmind Innovation


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 00:50, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Starmind Innovation

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Non-notable company lacking GHits of substance and GNEWS. Has a couple of minor articles that do not appear to be of substance. Appears to fail WP:COMPANY  ttonyb (talk) 18:12, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - Thanks for your feedback on the article 'Starmind Innovation' that I have created. I feel that the Starmind community (of which I am an active member, but not affiliated) is noteworthy as it reaches out thousands of users across the globe and involves some very influential people within university institutions. I based the layout of the article on the 'Innocentive' article. As I am new to Wikipedia and this is my first article I think I have not managed to properly demonstrate the notability of the community -- this is my fault, and I will try to improve the article to establish it. Could you please tell me what GHit and GNEWS mean? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DonBerryWiki (talk • contribs) 18:36, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment – GHits = Google hits and GNEWS = Google News hits  ttonyb (talk) 18:40, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * - Admittedly there were no GNEWS hits, but I check the first five pages of GHits for 'Starmind Innovation' and they were almost all relating to the community. DonBerryWiki —Preceding unsigned comment added by DonBerryWiki (talk • contribs) 19:13, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * - In addition to quoting large Swiss institutions mentioning Starmind on their home-page, I have cited Several independent news sources explicitly discussing Starmind, and linked to more than one article in major National Swiss newspaper, as well as several websites. Starmind is a paradigmatic example of a crowd-sourcing community, a phenomena that has recently warranted several books dedicated to its discussion. Therefore, I think Starmind is just as notable as, say, InnoCentive, and that article has significant Encyclopaedic content. I will link to the books discussing it too if this helps.  DonBerryWiki (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 23:59, 27 January 2010 (UTC).

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 00:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete, likely speedy delete candidate as unambiguous advertising: has received world-wide acclaim from both business and academic institutions... The business model has received several awards for its ingenuity. Open innovation websites are becoming increasingly popular for companies looking to out-source problem solving and find creative approaches to the business problems they face... Note also that the "references" provided all point to their own blog. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * - The claim about the popularity of open innovation is supported by references. The references for this article do not 'all' point to the Starmind blog -- only four of fifteen do, and these only because the blog contains independent sources such as a scanned page of a national swiss newspaper that could not be found online.  DonBerryWiki (talk)   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.187.164 (talk) 17:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * - Supposedly contentious claims removed and additional independent references cited to support claim about open innovation -- including an article from the New York Times. 86.177.187.164 (talk) 18:03, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
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