Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curad

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The result was merge to Medline Industries. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:26, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. Seems like your average WP:NOTYELLOWPAGES spam. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:54, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. A national brand owned by a major medical supply company (Medline Industries) that's been around for over 60 years. Please stop calling good faith edits by editors not affiliated with the company/product "spam". It violates WP:AGF and belittles the actual problem of paid editing, which should never have been allowed. oknazevad (talk) 06:22, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

One doesn't have to be paid to create spam, spam can be created in good faith by editors not familiar with WP:GNG. A company that's been around for 60 years is not auto-notable. It may well fail WP:NORG, and so far nothing suggests that this one does not fail it (again, let me make it clear: no policy on Wikipedia suggests that company's age has anything to do with notability). If you want to prove a brand is notable, find sources, like I did here. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:13, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Per WP:GNG: If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list. (Emphasis mine.) The topic clearly meets GNG, which is the standard, not the article, though the article needs more sources and expansion. - BilCat (talk) 22:05, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- @BilCat: Would you care to share a source, or two, to prove that the topic has received significant coverage? Because the article doesn't have them, and all I see is press releases and few mentions in passing about business-as-usual activities. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:02, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Medline Industries which only has a passing mention. This will improve the suggested merge target article, and is also aligned with WP:ATD-M. Also, I do not view this article as having a promotional tone, which is complementary to merging. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:14, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Medline Industries since subject verifiably lacks independent notability. Otherwise, Delete ipso facto. -The Gnome (talk) 15:52, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.