Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flok

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Thanks everyone who participated. Please keep all responses to closure civil. If you wish to contest the results, please visit deletion review. Missvain (talk) 00:00, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flok

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promotional article on minor company. The references, even venturebeat & chrunchbase, are essentially press releases or are mere notices of funding. DGG ( talk ) 17:39, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as there's simply nothing all for any basic notability, newly started company with nothing at all outstanding yet. SwisterTwister talk 18:47, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 18:48, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

·I've edited the page to remove promotional aspects, but believe it should not be deleted. The article cites real, major , 3rd-party news sources including VentureBeat and CMSWire, and these are not company-sourced press releases. "Essentially press releases" is a judgement call, not fact. This company has raised millions from a major VC, creating significance. Here are is a list of companies backed by General Catalyst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Catalyst_Partners#Investments

As precedent, here are a few similar companies that have pages:

°https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelUp

°https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belly_(loyalty_program)

°https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopkick

Rickmangold (talk) 14:18, 9 June 2016 (UTC)RickmangoldRickmangold (talk) 14:18, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - If you believe those pages are inadequate, then perhaps. we can bring those up to AFD, too. GAB^gab 14:23, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LevelUp and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belly (loyalty program). Shopkick seems a much more established business with reasonably good sources, tho it needs some work to remove promotional elements. Most such companies are non-notable, but this does not mean that all of them are. We should have articles on major companies if they are properly written. DGG ( talk ) 05:01, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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