Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stevens Transport Inc


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The result was   delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 09:19, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Stevens Transport Inc

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Almost certainly a product of paid editing, this article comprehensively fails the inclusion criteria at both WP:CORP and WP:GNG. Note that it was speedily deleted on 23 June 2011 under the title Stevens Transport as "unambiguous advertising". Despite the mass of "references", none of them indicate significant coverage in independent sources. Virtually all are to auto-generated and/or self-published databases, e.g. Bloomberg, Yahoo, Google, Hoover's, B2B Transport Market, etc. Of the reminder, one of them is blatantly deceptive—this is supposed to verify that the company received the 2012 "General Mills Refrigerated Carrier of the Year" award. The source mentions no such award, nor does it mention the company. The other two are this page from an ambulance-chasing law firm offering their services to anyone who's been in an accident with the company and this two-sentence blurb from D Magazine which notes that the company founder's house is one of the "100 most expensive homes in Dallas" with 6 fireplaces and 2 wet bars and valued at $13,886,900. Voceditenore (talk) 16:20, 7 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Voceditenore (talk) 16:53, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Voceditenore (talk) 16:53, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Voceditenore (talk) 16:53, 7 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, j⚛e deckertalk 00:29, 15 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. And salt Stevens Transport Inc. and Stevens Transport, Inc., too.  Agree with nom.  One "tell" about a paid editor is the odd wording about the firm operating in about 48 states, converted without understanding of the U.S., perhaps from a statement in one source, a so-called Yahoo Finance page.  I am interested to observe that such a "Yahoo Finance" page, actually at biz.yahoo, exists for a company like this, seemingly based on info from the company alone.  The section on "Stevens Transport Inc" in the news gives bad, unrelated hits on Benghazi news involving a journalist named Stevens and mentioning "transport" in the news article.  This lets me know to downgrade my view of any such Yahoo finance reference. -- do  ncr  am  16:42, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. A agree with the above - the refs in the article are not independent coverage in reliable sources, and I didn't find any from a Google search. --Michig (talk) 08:14, 22 July 2014 (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.