Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CastingWords

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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 wasdelete.—♦♦ SʘʘTHING(Я) 10:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CastingWords

Fails under WP:CORP. One of the articles given holds no mention of the company, the other is a premium access account. The Tech Crunch link only talks about the business plan prior to creation and nothing else --Wafulz 21:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

  • I created this article and have absolutely no relation with this firm, I am just a member of amazon mechanical turk and have found that this is a major player there. they have been mentioned in several pages and I originally looked them up on wikipedia but found no entry so decided to add one. Thebt 20:40, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I also wanted to mention that I believe that this falls under WP:CORP because it does have several mentions in at least 2 very notable publications (economist and NY Times) so it cannot be considered trivial by the WP:CORP definition. also, the articles were from the publications themselves and not press releases so this clearly is not excluded by the WP:CORP guidlines.

20:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

  • I am not going to comment on deletion or not, as I am a founder of this firm. I'm just going to state - A) We did not ask for this entry. B) The NYTimes article does mention us - but they screwed up the name spelling it "Casting Words". I don't want to junk up Wikipedia, but if the only problem here is a lack of media, there are a number of other reports - a recent salon article comes to mind: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/07/24/turks/index_np.html. I feel incredibly weird even commenting on this, if it's out of line just say so and I'll shut up. -- Nmcfarl 01:33, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Nmcfarl 02:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC) -- I feel even weirder editing the page so I'm not going to do that but clearly the 2 articles cited should be listed as:
  • Comment None of the articles actually mention CastingWords (or any derivations of the name thereof)- Amazon Mechanical Turk already has its own article if that's what you meant. I'm not sure what you're trying to point out. --Wafulz 17:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
    • All three of those articles mention CastingWords. If the requirement is that they are exclusively on CastingWords, they are not. But all three of them include at least 1 on paragraph on the topic of CastingWords. Pages E8 (online p2 - paragraphs 19-21), and TQ11(online p1 'graphs 7,8), and the first 3 paragraphs of page 2 of the salon article. Nmcfarl 17:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete all - no notability has been established. An interesting business model and the article can be reconsidered if this goes big. BlueValour 22:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - The Woman Who Sold The World 16:56, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - Angelbo 20:56, 20 August 2006 (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.