Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CounterPath Corporation (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:09, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Promotional article, flagged since 2016. Created by SPA. Was previously deleted at AFD as advertising created by an SPA and worthy of WP:TNT. According to the article talk page, it was recreated by an employee of the company, and not speedily deleted as a recreation against a deletion discussion, as it should have been. The WP:RS sourcing situation on CounterPath has not improved in the past five years - the article as it stands is entirely composed of press releases, and a WP:BEFORE shows only press releases and churnalism based on them - nothing meeting WP:CORPDEPTH. I'd be happy to be shown wrong, but it'd have to be shown with solid RSes. David Gerard (talk) 19:22, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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• Weak keep for now. Indeed, the article needs work, and normally I would suggest merging into its parent company. However, its parent does not seem to have an article yet. However, there were public filings in the SEC database, which are reliable albeit not totally independent. This does appear to be a long-lived company at least with real customers etc. so maybe more could be found and a neutral article developed. W Nowicki (talk) 17:28, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • ah yes, it's listed. But we do need at least some RS coverage - there is literally zero present in the article right now, and if the bad sources were culled there'd be literally no article - David Gerard (talk) 18:28, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete WP:NCORP requires multiple sources (at least two) of deep or significant coverage with in-depth information *on the company* and (this bit is important!) containing "Independent Content". None of the references in the article meet the criteria. They are either standard business listings or short articles based on an "announcement" by the company - all of the articles I can find are within the company's echo chamber and I have been unable to find any "Independent Content" as per ORGIND. Topic fails WP:NCORP. HighKing⁺⁺ 16:00, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom and HighKing. No prejudice for the article to be undeleted and moved to draft if someone wants to work on it if quality RS is found later.4meter4 (talk) 22:54, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom fails WP:NCORP and WP:GNG.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 00:10, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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