Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mountain View Alliance

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) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mountain View Alliance[edit]

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No coverage in independent, third-party sources. ghits limited to press releases. Non-notable organization. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 20:27, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 22:27, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~~ User:brholden I rewrote this into past tense. This was a real organization that put together a large trade show. It was composed of major industry organizations. The article is factual, and there is no particular reason to delete it.

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 01:01, 15 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There is nothing in this article that asserts any notability. scope_creep talk 16:15, 03 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge. Although probably yes and yes to the last two comments. It did seem to exist and a case could be made that it deserves a mention somewhere on Wikipedia. The question is if it really did exist but if it was independently notable enough to meet Wikipedia guidelines, and that seems "no". Since it seems defunct after a couple years, probably will never get notable enough. Normally I would suggest a merge, but there seems not much content here worth merging (nothing sourced to a citation at all, just a bunch of urls to top-level web sites and a press release). The article seems to be in marketingspeak? From the list of companies, it might have something to do with computer networking or telecommunications perhaps. Probably not solutions nor ecosystems so that language is just confusing to normal readers. Or maybe it dealt with toy "building blocks", or was a tourist organization that organized groups to view some kind of mountains? :-) At the risk of "scope creep" (the concept, not the user) SCOPE Alliance has some similar verbiage and had a notability tag for three years. Maybe both could be merged into Commercial off-the-shelf although that article seems to be about a particular US Government meaning of the term, and not sure this group was only selling to the US Government or if that article should be broadened to cover the more generic meaning of the term. W Nowicki (talk) 23:18, 15 September 2013 (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.