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The result was Delete. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 14:55, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CloudOne

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• Delete - Conflict of interest, not-notable (General Notability Guideline), technically a mute point, and Original Research.

A) Fails WP:COI - The creator of the article is a vice president of the company

John McDonald (Vice President of Services & Support) =?= Jpmcdon;

B) Fails WP:GNG - This company does not have sufficient coverage in reliable sources to meet the general notability guideline.

C) Fails WP:Pokémon test - If Wikipedia has an article for every 25 employee company, we will have a business directory of all small and not notable companies. Do not include in a list of non-notable companies.

D) Fails WP:OR reference 1 is self-published from their own domain http://www.oncloudone.net/Docs/pr/IBM, reference 2 does not mention CloudOne, reference 3 is self-published http://www.oncloudone.net/Docs/pr/Diem  kgrr ^talk 21:55, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as non-notable. The only press coverage of this company is two of its own press releases. Not enough.--Chaser (talk) 00:27, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

comment the two references are not even in the press. The two references are original research. It's them writing about themselves.  kgrr ^talk 01:03, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I understood. That was my point.--Chaser (talk) 01:19, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. (GregJackP (talk) 02:36, 4 April 2010 (UTC))[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTSOAPBOX and WP:NOTDIRECTORY.--BruceGrubb (talk) 08:24, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 10:37, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:57, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:57, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Non-notable "cloud computing" consulting business, referenced only to internal sources and blogs. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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