Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MoneyTap

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The result was delete. Sandstein 20:01, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MoneyTap

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Madeup references. Doesn't pass WP:ORGCRIT (Some press releases and some raised capital).

Also note: The author was blocked for sock puppetry and paid editing ref Bishal Shrestha (talk) 01:10, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Bishal Shrestha (talk) 01:10, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. Bishal Shrestha (talk) 01:10, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Bishal Shrestha (talk) 01:10, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Company received a substantial amount of funding (namely 9 million USD) and Sequoia Capital played a role. It got bonafide press articles too from sources such as Business Standard, The Economic Times, The Financial Express (India).[1][2][3][4] On top of it, it serves a market that can be tapped and it keeps people from from being gauged by the credit card companies. Furthermore, about 20% of India is still unbanked so their app will be very helpful to these people too. So the company is doing a lot of social good and worthwhile things via the service they are rendering to their customers. As far as awards, in October 2017 Moneytap as selected in the 20 Global Startups for The India Fintech Awards Demo Day by India Fintech Forum. India is still a developing country, but it has a lot of potential. And if it economically rises, it would lift a tremendous amount of people out of poverty. The Chinese lifted a tremendous amount of people out of poverty and India will probably be the next country to do so.And India is a democracy too unlike China. It would be tremendous thing to see India's economy grow fast and it would great if Wikipedia played a role in this matter and did not hamper it with being picayune about featuring its innovate companies that are getting press. I haven't look at the editors past edits, but I think this is a distraction as the articles has reliable sources and the company appears to have a lot of growth potential.Knox490 (talk) 19:05, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Knox490: The Business Standard ref ([this) is coming from a syndicated press release as mentioned at the bottom of article. A google search on the title of the press release gives a lot of same results, which is possibly a scenario of bulk press release. Also their website (here) mentions all about their press releases, which shows all the places the same press release has been published. The Economic Times ref(this) is a raised capital article, which doesn't support WP:ORGDEPTH as it is a trivial coverage. As for other refs, I couldn't find anything but I doubt their legitimacy too because outreaching to these newspaper for certain amount is definitely possible, and the bulk press release history supports this claim. Again, keep in mind that the author was blocked for sockpuppetry as I mentioned in the rationale. Regarding being selected in top 20 Global startup doesn't qualify to be notable. There's nothing to be sentimental about the country here. If the topic doesn't qualify to be notable, it should not exist yet. Bishal Shrestha (talk) 00:07, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:11, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages not a platform for promotion. I am unable to locate any references that meet the criteria for establishing notability, topic fails GNG and WP:NCORP. References listed above are press releases. HighKing⁺⁺ 12:18, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:NCORP. Coverage is limited to 'business as usual' press releases and their rewrites. Usual variety WP:CORPSPAM that we have to prune. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:39, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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