Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Sawyer Software

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The result was delete. Hog Farm _Talk 13:47, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Sawyer Software[edit]

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Article on non-Notable company, fails WP:NCORP. This article has been tagged for the Notability issue for 6 years. It has been also been tagged as written like an advertisement for 9 years. I would say the article is nothing but a product advertisement, but that's not quite true. It also includes non-notable awards that the company almost won, as well as several 3rd-place awards that employees have received... when they were in high school. Even if this topic were deemed Notable, the content is so bad it would require WP:TNT and restarting the article from scratch anyway.

Note that this is the state of the article after the worst crap has been cleaned out. Various editors have been doing assorted free-maintenance and free-cleanup on this ~~article~~ advertisement for 11 years now.

I preformed a Google News search looking for any sources to support Notability. I checked all 15 search hits. About the "best" I source I found was this source reporting that this company had been hacked and leaked information for 60,000 accounts. However that source accepts paid advertorials disguised as native content, which you can see listed if you click the "advertise with us" link on that page. That clearly disqualifies the site from being considered a WP:Reliable source. Alsee (talk) 14:16, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Alsee (talk) 14:16, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Technology, Computing, Software, and California. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 14:59, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as spam. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:16, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - seems fairly straighforward. Argymeg (talk) 17:23, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:NCORP and WP:GNG.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 01:42, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: An article created and extended by WP:SPAs Bluelockpad and MarkOfTomSawyer, setting out the company's wares. Searches find passing mentions and announcement coverage but not evidence of attained notability. AllyD (talk) 09:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Only sources are award lists, and dead links from Tom Sawyer. No Notability at all. Gabe114 (talk) 12:54, 22 March 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.