Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of notable funded companies

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 20:28, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of notable funded companies[edit]

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A list Y Combinator, lacking references. Name is horrible as it doesn't limit itself to Y-Combinator companies, Apparantly created to be a primary source for this information. Previously part of the main Y-Combinator article SimonLyall (talk) 09:13, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:59, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The article is less than a day old. Give it time to grow. No sense rushing to the AFD straight away. You could've tagged it for references needed, or used the talk page to ask where the information was coming from, and the article's creator would've surely told you. Searching for news stories with the numbers listed and the name of the companies involved, will surely provide some sources. Anyway, showing how many notable companies got start up funding from the Y Combinator company, is quite reasonable for an encyclopedia topic. Dream Focus 19:23, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See this [1]? There are some news stories about some of these companies getting money from Y Combinator. And I'm sure on their official company website, they list how much they gave to what companies as well, so the verifiability WP:V policy required by Wikipedia, is easily met. Dream Focus 19:27, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note - Actually one of the problems is that the Y Combinator website is not complete. Hence the external lists that people are maintaining and the problem with references. The article content itself is directly copied from an old version of the Y Combinator article which previously housed the list (which did not get updated or refed etc). The article name itself is worse than awful - SimonLyall (talk) 19:49, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This exhaustive list of Y Combinator's clients seems to violate WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:NOTDIR and WP:LINKFARM. The article's title makes no sense. Nearly all of its references link to blogs and YouTube. Most of the entries aren't notable; the parent article already mentions some of the company's most notable customers. — Rankiri (talk) 15:02, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete with extreme prejudice. Abductive (reasoning) 17:42, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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