Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IndiaMART (2nd nomination)

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The result was keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:10, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

IndiaMART

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promotional article on dubiously notable online marketing firm, which includes among its promotion for its clients awarding them a non-notable award. "Some of the popular names that have been associated with this event are...." The refs, wherever published are either notices or PR. The previous afd was closed saying "promotion can be removed", but though I and Brianhe have tried, it keeps getting added; and if it were all removed, there would be nothing left. DGG ( talk ) 18:02, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete as advert masquerading as an article. Most sources are press releases, so fails WP:GNG. Joseph2302 (talk) 18:11, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• See WP:NEXIST – "notability is based on the existence of suitable sources, not on the state of sourcing in an article". North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:04, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 23:51, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 23:51, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 23:51, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as questionably notable, even with some links here and there, this can be deleted for now at best until better is available. SwisterTwister talk 23:52, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Promo junk failing WP:CORP. Interesting how three out of five named awardees of their IndiaMART Leaders of Tomorrow Award are familiar to me from the spam or COI noticeboards, or both: Flipkart (both); Cloudnine Hospitals (both); Zee Business (COIN). Of the remainder, one was PRODed by DGG and dePRODed by the SPA creator [1]. Without the dubious awards they give or receive, including the section just mentioned, the amazingly PROMO and WP:CRYSTAL section titled "Future Projections", the paragraph on their "brand ambassador" celebrity, and a cite for a subsidiary whose article was just deleted as non-notable [2], there would be ... let's see one whole citation concerning routine startup funding. Brianhe (talk) 10:29, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep, I am surprised to see Article for deletion at India's largest B2b online marketplace and world's second largest after Alibaba. (Review all new references added in the page) I can ignore the fact of 200 crore in annual revenue, but cannot ignore 20,000 crore of annual sales handled through its portal. Every newspaper and news channel in India covers India's largest online marketplace 3-4 times in a year. When I was looking for references, there were atleast 3,000 qualified references. (Google News) It is one of India's first and leading online portal. If the article is badly written, the focus must be on working rather than deleting without making a thorough research. It has completed several acquisitions and investments in several startups of India. If still you are not convinced, please delete Alibaba Group too after it, it's only 3-4 times bigger than Indiamart. Probably Microsoft can be considered for deletion after it, as it only sells computers and softwares which most of the people don't use or know about it(same is with Indiamart).Harshad.mehtashell (talk) 17:34, 27 January 2016 (UTC)— Harshad.mehtashell (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
• Keep IndiaMART is a 20 year old company, the largest B2B marketplace in India covered by reliable and notable publications like Business Line, The Indian Express, one of India's renowned newspapers, The Economic Times, among others. Rewrite in an appropriate language with only relevant information and references instead of deletion. Gayatri0704 (talk) 17:47, 27 January 2016 (UTC)— Gayatri0704 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
• Definite Keep- The company has a wide coverage and is one of the Promising Internet Companies of India (as quoted in the different reliable sources). It has a wide media coverage and is one of the early birds in the Indian B2B marketplace. 1, 2, 3, 4. I don't entirely agree with the nomination, notability requires multiple sources, and this piece has multiple required sources in a greater depth. Kavdiamanju (talk) 03:23, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep When i look at the current version of the article, i find it a neat and clean article, satisfying all the Wiki norms and guidelines. The marketing fluff and the Future Projections section talked above are probably removed, and right now it appears as a perfect article with all necessary references from reliable sources, having international recognition and high Alexa ranking. I would recommend keeping the article. Vishal0soni (talk) 17:24, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep meets notability guidelines, article may have been improved as current version has lead section with similar type of information to that in the Apple Inc. article, and a history section which provides relevant information with references. It may still seem slightly promotional, because of the awards section (but they appear to be notable), and the events section, which is of unclear significance as one source there is a press release, "Emerging Business Forum", from http://corporate.indiamart.com/2011/11/09/indiamart-com-launches-emerging-business-forum-for-smes/), and the other is probably based on one, but that is not a reason for deletion. Peter James (talk) 19:22, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

as for comparison with the apple article, see WP:EINSTEIN. DGG ( talk ) 23:16, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep – Meets WP:CORPDEPTH, per a source review. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:03, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep agreed with User:Northamerica1000, anyone who resides in India knows what Indiamart is. Only reason it was marked for deletion as it wasn't referenced properly earlier, the last AFD was also keep and this also will be a keep. Amitbanerji26 (talk) 15:10, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Close and Keep, with the current clean up by Peter James, page is a keep for me. Ireneshih (talk) 06:22, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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