Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prometheus Fuels

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Sandstein 08:22, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Prometheus Fuels[edit]

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Prometheus Fuels is a small tech start up that does not meet Wikipedia's GNG. They currently have 25 employees listed on Linkedin. Their references primarily consist of paid media from unreliable sources. They have no press coverage from reliable sources, other than the Bloomberg article. This article's sole purpose is to serve as an advertisement for the company. This a good example of unambiguous advertising or promotion. User talk:DrAngstrom is a SPA that was heavily involved in the creation of the Prometheus Fuels page. Additionally, User:DrAngstrom admits to having a COI on his talk page and is most likely an employee of the company. Sonstephen0 (talk) 17:46, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 17:56, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 17:56, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 17:56, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP Science magazine https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/former-playwright-aims-turn-solar-and-wind-power-gasoline Motor Trend published in MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/recycling-combustion-creating-fuel-from-carbon-dioxide/ar-BB17xG6q also gave them significant coverage in a reliable source, as well as the Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/in-silicon-valley-the-quest-to-make-gasoline-out-of-thin-air you mentioned. Dream Focus 17:57, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note that DrAngstrom had nothing to do with the current article, just an earlier draft that got deleted. Someone else created this article months later. Dream Focus 18:11, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:28, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Unambiguous promotion appears to be a stretch but WP:CSD is the first place to take that claim. WP:COI and WP:NPOV can be addressed through improvements to this short article. Evidence of notability appears to be good based on the cited souces here. ~Kvng (talk) 21:22, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Kvng: as a point of information, prior to this AFD, a speedy deletion tag was placed on this article asserting unambiguous promotion. I declined that request because I did not view it to be unambiguous. So just to answer your process question (your first sentence), the proper process was followed. --B (talk) 12:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I created the first draft of this page after learning that User talk:DrAngstrom had written one which I felt wasn't up to Wikipedia quality standards. In addition, from what I can tell they are indeed currently working at the company (a classic COI). However, I don't know them personally and can confirm they were not involved in the creation of the page at all, or my impulse to create it. Quite the opposite — because of that I decided to discard their old material and write a fresh entry based on the several publicly-available sources I found (which don't appear to be paid? 🤔 unsure). It seemed that a relatively new company (late 2019) with as much already written about it was important enough to merit an article. Not really surprised an employee felt the same, but equally unsurprised they didn't know how to do it properly. I've been a casual contributor for 14 years and did the best I could.

–OrinZ (talk) 22:25, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per above. - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (^talk) 18:27, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.