Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Haitian Stock Exchange

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The result was delete. All participants have found a lack of reliable sources leading to insufficient evidence of notability. ~ mazca ^talk 23:28, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Haitian Stock Exchange[edit]

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I'm not sure this passes the WP:NOTABILITY threshold; nearly all the material is cited from a website of the same name. There seems to be very, very little information relating to this in WP:RS, and all I can really find in mentions in passing such as this (quote: "Between 2007 and 2010, Jean was president of YMCA-Haiti. He’s a founding member of the Haitian Stock Exchange and an advocate of tourism promotion") and this mention in passing right at the bottom of this article (quote: "His father is a founder of the Haitian Stock Exchange in Port-au-Prince.").

Although the website shows today's date, the copyright notices on the website suggest that it hasn't been updated since 2009, which seems unusual for an active enterprise. I note also that the banner GIF on the http://www.haitianstockexchange.com website currently seems to be served from a URL blacklisted by my ISP's content filter, although this doesn't necessarily mean anything, as this could be a false positive.

One page on the website shows a PDF of what appears to be a scanned page from Le Moniteur, the official gazette of the Republic of Haiti, suggesting that the company is actually called the Société Haïtienne de Valeurs Mobilières ("Haitian Securities Company"), which also matches text on the website. There seem to be a number of French-language hits on this, but I haven't dug any deeper than that -- but a newspaper search for the term in French comes up with nothing.

In the absence of definitive evidence of notability, I suggest we delete this article until better evidence is available.

-- The Anome (talk) 09:08, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Caribbean-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:19, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:19, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:19, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Haiti-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:02, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 09:59, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless we can add reliable citations and remove the promotional tone. Analog Horror, (Communicate) 03:52, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete no evidence of actual sources that would meet requirements to demonstrate notability. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 21:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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