Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CarSwitch.com

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The result was delete. Tone 08:06, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CarSwitch.com[edit]

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Non notable online market that falls short of WP:ORG as it lacks in-depth significant coverage in reliable sources Celestina007 (talk) 21:34, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Celestina007 (talk) 21:34, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions. Celestina007 (talk) 21:34, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Arab Emirates-related deletion discussions. Celestina007 (talk) 21:34, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as the following sources passes WP:SIGCOV: 1, 2 3 4 TruthGuardians (talk) 03:19, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Per two of the sources that are already in the article and the sources provided by TruthGuardians. SL93 (talk) 05:28, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Previously deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CarSwitch. Article has not been improved since then and the sources read as routine coverage and some puffery to me. Both Gulf Business and Arabian Business seem to be owned by marketing companies so I'm wondering about their reliability. (I admittedly live outside of their coverage area.) --Michael Greiner 00:52, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The company established back in 2016, and the previous version of this page deleted two years ago. The company has good coverage on sources like UAE's longest-running English daily news paper Khaleejtimes and thenational.ae https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/motoring/how-to-sell-your-car-remotely-in-the-uae-everything-you-need-to-know-1.1015500 https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/make-the-switch-without-a-hitch, and USA's entrepreneur.com https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/292374 and Forbes magazines https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarwantsingh/2020/07/21/new-digital-retailing-business-models-in-used-car-market-take-center-stage-with-covid/#254adefb45c4 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annajacob8 (talk • contribs) 18:30, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, this is nowhere near passing WP:NCORP, which specifically requires significant coverage in multiple independent reliable secondary sources. There are no such sources in the page. Of the four in this version:

the only information about the company is "CarSwitch.com, an online marketplace for certified used cars"
is a press-release, complete with "supplied photo" of the owners of the company; it contains no independent information
is about a different company; the information it gives about this one is "CarSwitch.com, a UAE platform for buying and selling certified used cars"; another sentence begins "Imad Hammad of CarSwitch.com was also set up, in 2016 ...", so is clearly not independent
is a permanent dead link to a completely trivial award ("entrepreneur of the week", no less)

This is also – despite denial by the page creator – obviously undisclosed paid editing just as the previous version was.

Note: the earlier title, CarSwitch, was most recently deleted on 19 July 2020 by Michael Greiner as G4 (nominated by me). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:54, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Justlettersandnumbers, thank you for the spot on analysis. Of recent I’ve become quite tired of drawing up tables & analyzing obvious unreliable sources. Thanks for the assistance. Celestina007 (talk) 17:40, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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