Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kennedy Funding

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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 was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:28, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kennedy Funding

Kennedy Funding (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

The article (and related articles: see below) appears to exist solely to promote this company (a hard money lender), its CEO and its charitable tennis tournament, contrary to WP:NOT#SOAP.

The subjects of these completely unsourced articles fail the general notability criterion and primary notability criterion for organizations and companies in that none appears to have been the subject of secondary sources or non-trivial press coverage: there are plenty of Google hits and some minor coverage at local media websites, but the media coverage all carries the byline "PRNewswire" (see PR Newswire), which means that the content is a paid press release. The rest of the hits are on pages on the company's own websites (variously named), or else to seemingly promotional posts on Google Groups and various chat boards.

While failing WP:N is not itself a reason for deletion, the absence of secondary sources or independent, non-trivial press coverage:

  • a) tends to reinforce the impression that the pages exist for promotional/advertising purposes (as does the tone of the articles, which read like lists of achievements or resumes, and also the fact that two of the three articles have been edited almost exclusively by two possible WP:SPAs whose only contributions have been to articles relating to this company)
  • b) suggests that the articles are probably OR and/or have WP:COI problems
  • c) makes it impossible to rewrite to articles for WP:NPOV, which would have been a preferable alternative to nominating the articles for deletion

I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reasons:

Jeffery Wolfer (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) A7 -- John Reaves (talk) 06:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Kennedy Funding Invitational (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

--Rrburke(talk) 19:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Speedy delete WP:CSD#G11--Whstchy 19:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete G11. So tagged. I'll look at Wolfer and the Invitational as well. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 23:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
    • OK. My !vote to G11 the Kennedy Funding article stands. The article for Jeffery Wolfer should also be speedied, but under A7. For the Invitational, simply delete. I'll watch the image. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 23:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Very Weak keep pending better sourcing for the company--we seem to have the same problem with businesses that we do with Turkish poets--we do not understand them. On that basis I have removed the tag to ensure a fuller discussion. I doubt that the man is N, so I've left it. DGG 03:29, 24 May 2007 (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.