Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wavii

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The result was speedy keep. apparently the feeling is that it's sufficiently notable , so I withdraw the AfD DGG ( talk ) 23:23, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wavii[edit]

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small start up with one application, which failed. The article references consist entirely of routine announcements.

accepted at AfC ,like so many similar articles, all written exactly the same. DGG ( talk ) 07:20, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep – Being small, a start up, having one application, being written like other articles (fixable), or failing are not criteria for deletion (and Wavii was acquired, it didn't fail). The news that Wavii was acquired by Google for $300M was not routine, it was news, and it was covered across a broad spectrum of media. Besides tech blogs like TechCrunch, and the WSJ, the story was covered by PC Magazine, The Telegraph, the Oakland Tribune, and the AP. There are sufficient articles where Wavii is the sole subject to meet WP:COMPANY. Merging Wavii into Google wouldn't be a bad thing, except that the article Google is already a pretty large, and the other products section is already quite full of more well known Google products like Google Translate. A worthwhile project would be to create a main article for Category:Discontinued Google acquisitions so that these various companies/products/technologies could all be described in a coherent narrative, and then some of them, perhaps including Wavii, could be redirected into that new article. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:06, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would support that idea--would you like to do it? DGG ( talk ) 04:38, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. But, I can't promise I can get to it this year. Or next. I have an ever-growing stack of projects I'm waiting to get to and this will have to go to the back of the line. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:25, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Wavii had substantive coverage before being bought [1][2][3][4][5], well in excess of your average start-up and independently of the acquisition event. Merging everything from Category:Discontinued Google acquisitions in a single page sounds remotely plausible assuming the 22 articles only have 1-2 paragraphs each (I didn't check if that holds), but the proposal is outside the scope of this AfD. By the way, a start-up being bought counts as "grade B" success, not failure. That Google bought them to kill them is another matter, but irrelevant for this discussion per WP:NTEMP. Someone not using his real name (talk) 17:46, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
What this page currently lacks is more detailed coverage of their [former] product, but that's not because sources about that can't be found. The sources I listed above are mostly about that actually. I suspect that the WP:SPA who wrote the wiki article is connected to some VC because he listed every single one of those involved in financing (see last paragraph), but hardly wrote anything about their product. I guess it was just a black box to cash in for him/them... Someone not using his real name (talk) 17:59, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Passes WP:CORPDEPTH, and per WP:NTEMP. Some source examples include:

The Wall Street Journal (newsblog)
The New York Times (newsblog)
Wired magazine
Business Insider (article published in The Telegraph)
Techcrunch
Techcrunch
PC Magazine

– Northamerica1000^(talk) 02:11, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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