User talk:Lolawrites
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LogiGear
[edit]Your problem is to establish Notability, a requirement to have a Wikipedia article, which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the subject thought it important and significant enough to write substantial comment on? More at WP:Notability (organizations and companies) and the WP:FAQ/Organizations.
Your references at present are:
- A report of Mr Nguyen speaking at a conference. There is a bit about LogiGear at the bottom, but it reads very like a press release.
- An interview with Mr Hackett, mainly about his book
- A reference to a book Mr Nguyen co-wrote (your reference was to the wrong book - I've fixed it)
- The company's name in a list of 70
There is hardly anything there about the company - not enough to show that it is notable.
Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:14, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Your new references
[edit]I'm afraid I'm still not convinced. What you have added is another listing of the company, apparently no.1716 in a list of 5000; one that I can't read, so I don't know what it says; and two about Vistacon which don't mention Logigear.
The thing is, Wikipedia is not a business listing directory, and does not expect to have an article about every company. To avoid speedy deletion, an article has to say why its subject is important or significant; to be kept in the longer term, it must show notability by significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources, and you haven't got that.
You can try putting it live if you like, but unless there is better sourcing than this I do not think it would survive a challenge on notability grounds. JohnCD (talk) 21:28, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Your user page
[edit]I have deleted the copy of the article you put on your user page, as I see it is already in the main encyclopedia space, and that's not what user pages are for: they are for saying a little about yourself and your Wikipedia activities, if you like, to help communication with the other volunteers here to help build the encyclopedia. They are not for "extended content unrelated to Wikipedia" such as copies of articles - see WP:UPNOT and WP:FAKEARTICLE. The user sub-page copy at User:Lolawrites/LogiGear is not a problem; when you no longer need it you can put {{db-u1}} at the top (two curly brackets each side) as a request to delete. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 12:01, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article LogiGear is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LogiGear (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. CorporateM (Talk) 18:45, 3 December 2014 (UTC)