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Mollenkopf

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A small office supply company. All the references about it are press release wire stuff and ultra-low-value business churnalism. I can't find any significant coverage of it in any reliable source. I don't think this company passes WP:NCORP or WP:GNG at all. A PROD on this basis was removed in 2013. There isn't a DE.wikipedia article about it; I don't think there ever has been. Note that there are a couple of other German companies with Mollenkopf in their name, but they're unrelated companies in different markets. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 09:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 09:27, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 09:29, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. More or less per nom, after a (second) search for sources. The article was started as a copyvio of the company history, in German. (That page has not been archived in its then form; the current company history page is here, but I can't get it to show me anything but the first date-point.) The creator, VIGIL150, subsequently translated part of it, leaving out the rest. I cleaned up the translation, restoring the omitted bits and (I hope) avoiding copyvio, and listed the company history as source. (My version.) But I didn't find any further coverage, so I PRODded it. All of this was in October 2013. A UK IP deprodded it, in the same edit adding, in a list under the existing "Sources" heading, 5 additional sources that they described as independent. 3 of these are from "pbs", which looks like a business magazine but is the marketing consortium mentioned in the text. One of those is irretrievably dead. In any case several of the 5 are mere mentions; for example the one with the misleading link text "awarded 'face of the industry'" is about a "company face of the year" award and just lists Mollenkopf's exec. as coming third. The best of the lot is the last, a short article on the ecological advantages of online procurement that appears to cite Mollenkopf as its only example. The article has remained substantially unchanged since, and I find no evidence the company has achieved notability. (I can't even substantiate the Avis Best of Germany award.) Yngvadottir (talk) 09:46, 20 September 2024 (UTC) ... PS: The same user created an article on the company at de:Mollenkopf (Bürobedarf); it was speedy deleted as promo and non-notable. Yngvadottir (talk) 09:54, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]