Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethernet Exchange

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Ethernet Exchange

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Outdated, was future-looking when initially written, into a market that failed to materialize. Not a thing in 2024. No inline references, general references are decade+ old marketing materials. WP:PROD nomination of article was contested by Kvng on the basis of WP:NOTTEMPORARY, but the article was never notable to begin with (fails WP:SIGCOV, "press releases [...] are not considered independent", WP:SPIP "press releases [...] are not valid routes to an encyclopedia article", WP:SBST "routine news coverage such as press releases [...] is not significant coverage", WP:PRSOURCE "A press release is clearly not an independent source"), so bringing it here for a full AfD. DefaultFree (talk) 18:43, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Computing and Internet. DefaultFree (talk) 18:43, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
• Comment' - I reviewed the cited sources before deprodding and they don't look like pure press releases. It is industry press with bylines and I assume some editorial control. ~Kvng (talk) 19:37, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

  Reviewing each existing source:

  • [1] is a (dead) marketing page published by a service provider (archive)
  • [2] talks about MEF 26 ENNI and how it could potentially enable the creation of ethernet exchanges in the future, but does not claim that any are extant
  • [3] is a (dead) "article based almost exclusively on a press release" (archive, press release)
  • [4] is based almost entirely around interviews with Equinix's chief marketing officer and a Virgin Media director.
  • [5] is an "article based almost exclusively on a press release" (press release)
  • [6] is an "article based almost exclusively on a press release" (press release)

  DefaultFree (talk) 22:00, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

• Delete: Business wires and various blog posts are all I can find. I agree with the source analysis above, I'm not seeing enough coverage to keep this. Oaktree b (talk) 22:43, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
• Delete: Sourcing seems limited to pretty much only press releases from 2011/12. Nothing seems to have come of this, and I wasn't able to find anything other than press release from what was discussed above. StreetcarEnjoyer (talk) 19:54, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
• Delete based on DefaultFree's source analysis and my inability to find anything better. ~Kvng (talk) 21:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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