Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comptel

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The result was no consensus. The "keep" !voters don't seem to agree with the nominator's analysis of several of the sources. However, there is sufficient doubt about whether the coverage is WP:ROUTINE to prevent a solid "keep" consensus. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 09:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comptel

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6 references are as follows:

A Comptel guide, which must be ignored as it is self-published, per WP:COI.
Techcrunch refers to a sale of the company to Cisco, and does not express any notability about the company, only that it was sold.
Billingworld refers to a contract, and is more a description of routine work, not notability.
Connectedplanet is also a contract/routine explanation of the company, therefore not notable.
Both marketwire articles appear self-promotional, and followed the second one to the "World Vendor Awards 2011" results and it seems Copmtel didn't even win an award, so the link to it being "a Finalist" is moot - it didn't win, therefore no longer a notable article.

As none of these references follow WP:CORP guidelines sufficiently, the article should be considered non-notable. Ma®©usBritish ^[Talk][RFF] 11:43, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Basing notability judgements on the article alone was a mistake - what is important is that the company really does meet inclusion requirements, and that the article therefore needs improvement, not deletion. The company is listed on NASDAQ: WP:LISTED notes that this does not automatically confer notability but is a signal that it should be easy to find, and suggests Hoover's as a starting point. Hoover's does indeed have a report available for this Company. Online searches for the company produce independent, reliable coverage (admittedly a lot of press releases have to be filtered out, though) and WP:GNG appears to be met. As for the awards - you are right it was only a finalist at the 2011 World Vendor Awards, but it did actually win it in 2010. RichardOSmith (talk) 12:23, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Yet another international software company specialising in telecommunications. References are to routine deals reported on IT trade blogs or PR aggregators. They record routine transactions about asset acquisitions or contracts entered, rather than encyclopedically notable achievements, and are fairly obviously based on press releases rather than genuinely independent sources. Google News finds some incidental mentions revolving around a lobbying scandal, but there's nothing about that in this article and I suspect that this coverage can tell us very little about this business itself. No showing of significant effects on history, technilogy, or culture of the sort that makes for long term historical notability. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 14:58, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 14:58, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:06, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Very Weak Keep - These two sources qualify topic notability AOL TechCrunch article and Billing & OSS World article. Perhaps there are more reliable sources available. Northamerica1000 (talk) 17:28, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There are 871 news results to sort through. The first is from the Washington Post, linking to an article no longer there, but if you search on their website you can see the title Cisco To Buy Comptel's Axioss Software Assets For $31 Million In Cash. Others have found coverage and mentioned it above already. Dream Focus 23:31, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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