Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xulon Press

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. Coredesat 05:58, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Xulon Press

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While the article does assert the company's notability, it does not do so from reliable secondary sources, which is the primary criterion from WP:ORG. The Wikipedia is not a PR wire to get a company's name out there, and not all companies are notable. I googled and found nothing but PR statements and customer (i.e., author) testimonials pro and con -- in short, nothing that proves its notability. Flex (talk/contribs) 14:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletions. —A. B. ^(talk) 21:31, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - Per nom. Subdolous 15:18, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unless citations from reliable sources are added to meet verifiability standards. Stifle (talk) 16:53, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge into the article for the parent company, Salem Communications, which is notable. Give it its own section there and leave a redirect after this article is deleted. It's useful to have a record on Wikipedia that this is printer of self-published books since books "published" by such a press with no editorial review are not a reliable sources and almost never notable. --A. B. ^(talk) 23:10, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Fine by me. --Flex (talk/contribs) 00:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Extra points will be awarded for someone that reviews Special:Whatlinkshere/Xulon Press for possible deletion candidates. --A. B. ^(talk) 23:12, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Done. Nominations submitted. --Flex (talk/contribs) 00:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Flex -- you get three extra points!

1. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Coming Evil
2. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Faith and Freedom
3. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Strange Man

--A. B. ^(talk) 14:47, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

• Merge seems most appropriate to me, per A. B. Pigman^what?/trail 21:14, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. It meets the notability standards and, as a major (claimed to be largest or fastest growing) Christian print on demand publisher, it's a rather significant subject. I found some sources and added them. It wasn't that hard - google is a wonderful thing. There are far more sources if someone would care to check. Merging isn't terribly appropriate because they are different companies with different histories and purposes. One simply bought the other last year.Wikidemo 21:53, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Good work. A couple of the pieces seem like they're regurgitating the company's positive-spin statements about itself, but nonetheless they do seem to qualify as reliable. I still think they should be merged until such time as this merits its own article, however. Salem is a parent company, and not all of a parent's subsidiaries necessarily need their own articles. --Flex (talk/contribs) 22:15, 5 November 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.