Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virtuozzo (company)


 * 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 no consensus. ‑Scottywong | chat _ 16:58, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Virtuozzo (company)

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I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing General notability guideline and the more detailed Notability (companies) requirement. " It was deprodded by User:Kudo417 with the following rationale on talk: "This article is notable because they are the company behind OpenVZ, a widely used paravirtualization system. Notability for OpenVZ can be easily verified", to which I replied that WP:NOTINHERITED. Given no further discussion has taken place for weeks, I see no recourse but to progress this discussion here. As I discussed in my Signpost Op-Ed, this is a good example of Yellow-Pages like company spam. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:01, 28 March 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   10:46, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   10:47, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:27, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:27, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:22, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete: The referenced text is predominantly routine coverage about ownership changes (much concerning the period as SWsoft, making it also debatable whether two articles are worthwhile if this article survives?). My own searches are not locating WP:RS coverage of the company. Fails WP:CORPDEPTH, WP:GNG. AllyD (talk) 06:20, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to OpenVZ. This company is well-known in the industry as the company which originally developed OpenVZ. Since it is only really notable for that, it possibly isn't notable enough for an article in its own right, but I think a redirect would be justifiable. SJK (talk) 09:41, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per above, about half of current refs border on primary / fail WP:GNG. Just pulled a lengthy WP:Out of scope from SWsoft and tagged for advertising. I was initially leaning delete but a quick search of G-News sans "(company)" displays several recent refs here and here as well as Silicon, CW and Geekwire. Also caught links in Russian and Chinese amongst routine spammy pr. Needs to differentiate between product v. company as this causes convoluted confusion & cut down advertisement throughout.Jppcap (talk) 21:39, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment I went through the references you listed. With one exception (Computer Weekly), the rest are WP:PRIMARY sources as they rely on company-generated information/data with no additional analysis. -- HighKing ++ 14:13, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Final relist. To evaluate sources provided by.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, f  e  minist  05:21, 20 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete as corporate spam on an unremarkable private company, with copy such as "... a pioneer in the operating system-level virtualization field ...". Not suitable for inclusion at this time. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:44, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment - Pinged back and did a broader search rn and this looks like a case of WP:NEXIST. Alas, a number of primary refs / some overt advert cut out. Above refs added to a temp "External links" header to work through & Russian/Chinese added. Needs more eyes on the current text, as plenty of advert still to revise.Jppcap (talk) 22:45, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep as Find sources:books; scholar; HighBeam negates Not Inherited. Burroughs&#39;10 (talk) 04:45, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * WP:THEREMUSTBESOURCES is not a valid argument. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:25, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's why above links are included.. Click-through and found:


 * Scaling Up? Virtuozzo Performs
 * Virtuozzo Plays Well With Others
 * Ghosts In The Machine
 * Intel Taps Linux Developer for IA-64
 * Virtuozzo и Packet анонсировали облачный сервис гиперконвергентной инфраструктуры
 * Job No. 1 for Virtuozzo’s new CEO: Educating the IT world on the company’s unique position
 * Now On Its Own, Virtuozzo Seeks Container + VM Co-existence
 * Virtuozzo and Jelastic Join Forces to Create Virtuozzo DevOps Burroughs&#39;10 (talk) 16:26, 27 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep There are adequate sources that meet guidelines and establish notability. For example, the book references by Burroughs&#39;10 and the Computer Weekly article mentioned by Jppcap -- HighKing ++ 14:18, 29 April 2017 (UTC)


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