Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Squared Designs

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. Eluchil404 05:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Squared Designs

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Non-notable company, reads like an advert. NASCAR Fan24^{(radio me!)} 21:26, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

• Weak delete. Does assert some notability, but without specific cites for those NYT/etc articles, no way to verify that they actually support the claims of notability. DMacks 21:30, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

• Trying it myself, I get zero hits at NYT's archive search or at Newsweek's archive search. DMacks 21:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Weak KeepIt probably would have been best to contact the editors who edit this article for some sources. The article wasn't even tagged with a needs more sources template before this Afd. Surely it can't be that hard to find sources of the NYT etc articles. I'll try to find some sources and if I can't find them then I will change my vote to delete. AngelOfSadness talk 21:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment Okay. I'll try to remember next time I AFD an article as I'm new to this. NASCAR Fan24^{(radio me!)} 21:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment I slightly new to this aswell but the deletion policy says to consider other alternatives to deleting before marking the article for CSD, PROD or Afd. One of them is the cleanup tags like the "needs more sources" one I mentioned earlier. AngelOfSadness talk 21:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Nomination withdrawn Added {{refimprove}}. Looks like I jumped the gun. NASCAR Fan24^{(radio me!)} 21:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC) Delete per AngelOfSadness, below. NASCAR Fan24^{(radio me!)} 22:15, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Too late I think…already several comments support deletion, so at best you could (as you seem to have already done?) change your mind and add a comment about why you now support keeping. DMacks 22:09, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

• (ec) Delete - I can't find the NYT reference or any of the indications that it's been the subject of multiple, non-trivial reliable sources. The article reads like marketing copy, as well - it's a bullet-point list of achievements and new product releases, with no indication of why it's important. I don't see it meeting WP:CORP. Tony Fox (arf!) 21:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - I can't find any sources that back up the claims in the article. AngelOfSadness talk 22:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

• You might want to strike your above "weak keep". Tony Fox (arf!) 22:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks I forgot about that when writing my delete comment AngelOfSadness talk 22:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

• I'm finding a bit of notability for Kamarin Lee (won several awards for entrepreneurship ([1] in addition to the Ernst & Young local competition already cited in the article), even if this particular venture isn't notable on its own merits). Maybe could rewrite as Kamarin Lee, and have a paragraph about Squared Designes (one of the ventures noted in the award PR pieces). DMacks 02:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - Even editing this article for wikistyle doesn't help...there is nothing notable about this company at all. Flowanda | Talk 08:37, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletions. -- Gavin Collins 11:21, 2 October 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.