Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Technical Communities


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The result was delete. Vanamonde (talk) 10:54, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Technical Communities

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I've done a fairly thorough analysis of available sources, and on balance, I don't think there's enough coverage of this company for it to meet WP:NCORP. There are two reasonably lengthy sources (noted below), but that's all I could find. Given the extreme narrowness of their audience, I feel like WP:AUD is important here: "attention solely from local media, or media of limited interest and circulation, is not an indication of notability; at least one regional, statewide, provincial, national, or international source is necessary" (bold for emphasis). I was not able to find any mainstream sources. On the whole I don't think there's enough to sustain a claim of notability.


 * Analysis of sources in article
 * 1) Federal Times: Permanent dead link, no context or title given so can't search for the article another way
 * 2) Inc. 5000 1: Business listing
 * 3) Washington Technology Magazine 1: Trivial mention
 * 4) Homeland Security Today 1:  reasonable, but a very narrow audience
 * 5) Washington Business Journal 1: Dead link, but based on the date could be  or, both of which mention Tech Comm but are paywalled so I can't assess depth
 * 6) Federal News: Dead and nothing in the actual site's archives so can't find it to assess depth
 * 7) WA Business Journal 2: Paywalled, can't assess depth, but from title is about multiple companies
 * 8) Washington Technology Magazine 1: Written by the company president, not independent
 * 9) Potomac Executive Biz: permanent dead link, can't find an active website for this, unknown if its an organization or a periodical or what
 * 10)  Washington Technology Magazine 3: Fairly deep, but aimed at a truly narrow audience - the magazine provides "competitive intelligence for executives providing contract services to the government market"
 * 11) Homeland Security Today 2: permanent dead link, the only substantial article on HST was noted above so not sure what this would have been
 * 12) Military & Aerospace Electronics: Doesn't mention company at all
 * 13) Federal Times Top 250 GSA Vendors: Business listing
 * 14) Inc. 5000 2: Business listing again

&spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 20:14, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 01:21, 4 August 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nosebagbear (talk) 12:45, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per analysis above. I have never found anything worthwhile in bizjournal sources (and they are way too narrow for WP:AUD) and even the most in depth sources don't have much really, if you take out everything that is a quote/paraphrase of a quote - they fail being independent as they don't seem to have "original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject". Nothing to indicate more coverage than every business receives.Galobtter (pingó mió) 08:31, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: delete fails WP:NCORP & WP:PROMO. Corporate spam. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with the analysis above, references fails the criteria for establishing notability, topic fails GNG and WP:NCORP.  HighKing++ 17:54, 17 August 2018 (UTC)


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