Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PushToTest

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 redirect to Frank Cohen (Entrepreneur). MBisanz ^talk 00:41, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PushToTest

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Corporate puff piece, inflated by passing mentions and directory listings. And how is "finalist" for a Top 100 listing is supposed to be meaningful? Ultimately, seems to be part of a walled garden of corporate puff-pieces which have the smell of paid editing about them. Calton | Talk 17:37, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Almost all the awards mentioned are for the principals in other contexts, or for their career generally. The author seems to specialize in creating articles about both companies and their principals, thus attempting to get multiple articles out of the same material. In this particular case, the two principals seem to be in fact notable--from their work elsewhere. The awards for the product itself are insignificant. (I am checking their other articles; I have just nominated one for afd, and expect to nominate a few others--though not all. If this is paid editing, some of the clients are notable. )

I have learned to be very skeptical about articles which use "nominations" as the basis for notability--except for a few very major awards where the nomination itself is highly selective, such as the Academy Awards, or the Man Booker. I am also skeptical about awards such as the Red Herring for companies that show promise or are positioned to grow or are notable among new companies--this normally means not yet notable DGG ( talk ) 19:36, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - There isn't much for this article, the "awards and recognitions" section only mentions the finalist for Red Herring and Kevin Surace's awards (which may be somewhat relevant but not exactly to the company). Google News archives provided results here, here, here (DEMO Conference 2002), here (2001 comment from Frank Cohen through an article, not really useful), here (brief mention), here (not really useful either as it is written by Frank Cohen), here (announcement for TestMaker) and press releases here with two more here and here. It seems the press releases, as usual sometimes, outweigh the non-PR. Additional searches did not provide anything else. I think it's probably too soon so I have no prejudice towards a future article. SwisterTwister talk 21:14, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - A 10 year open-source project (assuming the popularity/usage is true) should be listed, though the article could be shortened to focus mostly on that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.59.129 (talk) 23:02, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There is no substantial 3rd party reliable source coverage. Mcewan (talk) 21:13, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - This is very similar to other open source companies and projects which are listed on Wikipedia such as smartbear, soapui, joomla, red hat, Selenium (software) etc. 3 million downloads make this noteworthy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.164.217.162 (talk) 23:10, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Frank Cohen (Entrepreneur). Google, Google News and Google News Archive searches for ("pushtotest") yield nothing in the way of in-depth coverage: lots of the company's own websites and press releases, some passing mentions in articles on other subjects, but nothing detailed enough to satisfy WP:GNG. Searches combining the company's name with various terms likely to occur in financial journalism, e.g. ("pushtotest" "earnings") also yield nothing in-depth (though note that the company isn't public, so there probably won't be much investor-oriented press). Much of the current article is about Cohen and CEO Kevin Surace, possibly reflecting the paucity of sources on the company itself. A redirect would allow expansion of the section and ultimately separation of a free-standing article if better coverage were later found. Ammodramus (talk) 19:46, 9 January 2013 (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.