Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TechSmith

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 soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:07, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

TechSmith[edit]

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All of the references are to company website, company YouTube or deadlinks. Two of the four are about an awards competition the company held one time, in 2011-12. Fails NCORP. David notMD (talk) 12:04, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Although not mentioned in the article, TechSmith does have current screensave software programs - Camtasia and Snagit which are the subjects of articles - and an article about discontinued software: Jing (software). These share the same weakness as the parent corporation article, i.e., lack of independent references. David notMD (talk) 12:12, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: As recently as July 2022, the article was four times longer and had 18 references. The subsequent Edit summaries justified the cuts as removing promotional content, but it is possible that references supporting notability were lost at that time. The editor who had added most of the deleted content has not been active since 2012, and so cannot be invited to comment here. David notMD (talk) 15:23, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies and Michigan. Shellwood (talk) 14:22, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Interesting. In going through the first 100+ hits of "TechSmith" in Wikipedia Library, most of the independent secondary coverage focuses mainly on Camtasia and Snagit in the form of product reviews, and could be added as sources to those pages. Everything else appears to be press release-driven media coverage originating from TechSmith. In this case there appears to be a stronger case for keeping a couple of the product articles and most likely deleting the article on the company itself. Cielquiparle (talk) 23:10, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 12:00, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Agree with the above comment, not much coverage for the company, mostly for the software they publish. Oaktree b (talk) 19:28, 5 December 2022 (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.