Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spoka

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 delete. Neither of the Keep !votes offered a WP:PAG based rational. Ad Orientem (talk) 00:23, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Spoka[edit]

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Contested speedy deletion RhinosF1^(chat)_{(status)(contribs)} 19:34, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - needs improvement but can be kept with very little work. RhinosF1^(chat)_{(status)(contribs)} 19:48, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I'll add newspapers articles as referencies as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Solonese (talk • contribs) 19:57, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I've reworked some of the prose to make it less promotional. All that might need to be done is to add more information with respective sources. –eggofreason^talk 20:57, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:08, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:08, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as WP:NOTPROMOTION. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:09, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:04, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - the sourcing is poor and unreliable. Fails WP:GNG, with a possible additional touch of WP:TOOSOON. The one piece that looks like it is actual journalism - the Gigabit Magazine piece, albeit quite fawning, doesn't even mention Spoka.[[1]] I Googled various combinations of Arkadin, Cisco and NTT with the name Spoka, and nothing comes up. While hunting, it appears that Spoka is a relatively new product owned by Arkadin, so I tried to see if Arkadin was notable, perhaps for a merge, and there's no coverage of them either. Cisco is listed as a partner on the Spoka site, but it appears they are just selling their equipment to them. I'm not sure how NTT fits in - they aren't mentioned anywhere, but the article's editor just went to the NTT Communications article (which is on my watchlist) and added info about this deal, perhaps hoping to influence notability with less OCD editors dropping in. The info added to NTT is just primary sources - the company's own press releases. On a related note, there are two other odd things here. A sock puppet investigation has been opened against the creator Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Solonese, and the editor who nominated this article for deletion voted keep. Hopefully the tangential items will eventually get all sorted out, but for now, this is a clear delete. I'm also going to undo the NTT adds since the sourcing is primary and thus unreliable, and I'm not sure that this info should be there. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 22:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Update - I just saw this for more info about NTT and Arkada, so this must be what they're calling Spoka now. [[2]] But it's also too fawning to be taken seriously, so this is still a delete. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 22:24, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 10:16, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Notability isn't there. There's one source that might cut the mustard (the Gigabit article [3]), although that also is more of an advertorial than anything else, and really just an incidental mention; and that's it. Fails WP:GNG. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 01:46, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
FYI Spoka isn't mentioned at all in the Gigabit article used as a source. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 23:06, 19 February 2019 (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.