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The result was merge‎ to Paltalk. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:11, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles about companies must meet WP:NCORP requirements. This one clearly fails them.

1. [1] Puff piece by WP:TECHCRUNCH, an outlet infamous for its COI articles

2. [2] Very brief and clearly promotional article, even including calls to action with a link to the website. Fails WP:ORGIND.

3. [3] non-independent interview article, doesn't say anything of substance about Tinychat.

4. [4] reads like a routine announcement, not deep enough coverage to satisfy ORGDEPTH.

5. [5] Reproduction of another WP:TECHCRUNCH puff-piece.

6. [6] Routine announcement, doesn't say anything about the company in any depth (WP:ORGDEPTH). Also relies on TechCrunch.

Other sources I found were PR articles and top 10 lists. This article was also created by an editor with the same name as a co-founder of this company [7]. Badbluebus (talk) 23:12, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Business, Companies, Internet, and Websites. Badbluebus (talk) 23:12, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 08:09, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Couldn't find any good sources either. I found this article that alleges that two celebrity investors used the software to "flirt with underage girls", but the article states that these are merely "rumors". At best, this source is unreliable, and at worst, it's a violation of WP: BLP and should not be added to the article. I also found a book called "Introduction to Omegle" by Gilad James, PhD. I thought that this source would be reliable, but the author's LinkedIn profile indicates that their PhD was obtained from a "distance learning institution". This, regrettably, makes the book an unreliable source. HyperAccelerated (talk) 05:35, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Previous WP:PROD candidate, ineligible for soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:49, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Paltalk as an alternative to deletion, since that's its parent company. There's enough sources including Techcrunch (some have bylines and not all of the articles are just rehashes of PR statements) and brief mentions in academic overviews of videochat services, that it should be mentioned on a suitable page, even if it does not meet NCORP on its own (it's at best borderline). -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 00:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  If this is closed as merge, please ping me and I will carry out the merge. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 17:36, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to see if there is more support for a selective Merge.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:01, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Paltalk per Patar knight, at the time both paltalk and tinychat articles did meet WP:NCORP. Why is it voted to be deleted now? Koltinn (talk) 13:19, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete or merge/redirect to Paltalk as volunteered by Patar knight above. The format/funding info and references in the article may have been sufficient in 2009 but fall short of the subsequently refined WP:NCORP criteria. And the present Paltalk article is long on lawsuits / short on acquisitions, so could benefit from the introduction of a broader view, including brief coverage of their operation of Tinychat over the past 10 years. AllyD (talk) 09:01, 26 December 2024 (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.