Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Del West

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The result was delete. WjBscribe 10:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Del West

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Company (valvetrain supplier) with no assertion of notability or sources other than company website. Originally listed for speedy deletion, but an admin thought it did not quite meet the requirements of WP:CSD#G11 and would be better to go through AfD just to be safe-- so here it is. Note possible violation of WP:COI, since the entire article was written by several single-purpose accounts, each named similarly to the son of the company president, Alfred Sommer. May violate WP:SPAM too, since its only source is a link to the company website. See related discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfred Sommer (aerospace engineer). --Seattle Skier (talk) 20:33, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - Sounds like spam, some references would help. Artaxiad 20:55, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep Supplying Formula 1 & NASCAR cars demonstrates slight notability. The company doesn't sell straight to the public so its not an obvious case of spam. Most articles are written by people with a personal interest in the subject. Epbr123 21:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep But only if there are references. There should be references and reviews of their products in technical magazines, and possibly articles about the business. Those who wrote the article will know better than I where to find them. I wish we could get contributors to actually realize the importance, especially when there is apparent COI. If they did that convincingly in the first place they wouldn't have to be concerned about the likelihood of having to defend the article here. There is a reasonable presupposition that those with COI who don't find them might not actually have any. DGG 05:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - I watch Formula-1 and never heard of these engines in the broadcasts (the commentators usually speak on technical specs during a race when no action is seen on the circuit). Also per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfred Sommer (aerospace engineer). If its owner-creator-main engineer gets deleted I say no way his "product" could stay. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me} 08:31, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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