Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/X-Cart

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. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:57, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

X-Cart[edit]

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Subject fails WP:NOTABILITY. Article was created by an WP:SPA advertising-only account (Ambal-ulsk) with no other edits other than related to X-Cart. Was speedied twice as spam under this spam article, however, it was also speedied a ton of times under a multitude of others such as, Xcart, XCart, X-cart and X-Cart shopping cart. Article is one part of a massive Marketing campaign by Qualiteam Software Ltd. Has links but paid press kit reviews and trivial coverage or mentions fail WP:CORPDEPTH. Lacks "significant coverage" in independent and reliable secondary sources. Equally, Wikipedia is NOT a "vehicle for advertising" Hu12 (talk) 18:42, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

X-Cart is the 1st PHP based shopping cart software in the world. If you check dates you'll see it was created before oscommerce. Almost every web developer worked or working with X-Cart. Just google for "x-cart" or "xcart" you'll see number of mentions. I see "About 4,590,000 results" right now.We had more content with more proof-links, but someone deleted the most of the content. Also, why do you keep other similar articles? See links to them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_shopping_cart_software - the most of articles should be deleted according to the aforementioned rules. We are not mentioning our features and other marketing bla-bla-bla like others do. And the most of them are not having number of mentions in the Internet as X-Cart has. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ambal-ulsk (talk • contribs) 10:25, 18 February 2013 (UTC) --Ambal-ulsk (talk) 06:45, 19 February 2013 (UTC)— Ambal-ulsk (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

"We had..."
"We are not mentioning our features..."

Please See public relations, and marketing and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. :The nature of Wikipedia means that you can't make a convincing argument based on what other articles do or do not exist; Pointing out that your competitors exist does not prove that X-Cart should also exist. Your contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote X-Cart which is never appropriate, particularly when it there is a conflict of interest as it violates Neutrality (a fundamental principle by which Wikipedia operates). Additionaly reporting competitors negatively in an attempt to get them deleted is never a sign of good faith. Equally Wikipedia is not a place to to promote your products. --Hu12 (talk) 15:31, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:10, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete. The article is tainted by the spam, of course, but on the merits I can't find enough sources to justify the article. That said, there may be sources in Russian that I am not equipped to evaluate, and the Paypal announcement (had it received media coverage rather than press releases) would be notable indeed, I believe. But I don't think we're there yet. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 14:00, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ‑Scottywong | speak _ 21:15, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, doesn't seem notable.^King Jakob _C2 00:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not notable? X-Cart based merchants process 1 billion USD in sales annually, but I fear I can't put a proof-link for that here. Number of X-Cart user forum members is more than 30,000 at the moment and growing - see the proof in the bottom at http://forum.x-cart.com/ Also, X-Cart is the Platinum partner of PayPal - see https://www.paypal-marketing.com/paypal/html/hosted/emarketing/partner/directory/#s=all,s00&k=x-cart&n=34161289&m=p , PayPal doesn't give their highest partnership level to "not notable" solutions. One more example - a hosting provider based in Atlanta, GA, USA, one of hosting providers who provide X-Cart within their plans. I quoting their site: "With over 2300 hosted X-Cart sites powered by EWD Hosting, you’re in great company" ^[1] - this is just one of hosting companies who provide X-Cart Hosting.Ambal-ulsk (talk) 12:01, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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^ ""EWD Hosting"". Retrieved 12 March 2013.

[1] ""EWD Hosting"". Retrieved 12 March 2013.

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