Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vendmax

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 06:57, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ad. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:53, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, ad. Shauri 02:05, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Ad. Dlyons493 03:25, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Ad. *drew 03:30, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Ad Amren ^(talk) 03:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC
• Delete Amen Avalon 04:57, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment, no vote. I don't know how notable this company is but it appears to be a legitimate vending machine company. See their website. If kept, the article needs to be completely rewritten so that it does not read like an advertisement. ♠ DanMS 05:55, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • This isn't an article about Vendmax the Canadian vending machine company. It's an article about Vendmax, a software product of the U.S. Streamware corporation. (WP:CORP has notability guidelines for both companies and products.) Uncle G 14:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Uncle G is correct. My apologies, Uncle G. I should have read the article more carefully. Changing my vote to Delete. I wonder if the software company is impinging on the trademark of the vending machine company. ♠ DanMS 16:56, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• This article about the vending machine company is not a simple parroting of the company's "about us" page or its press releases, and thus means that the Canadian company satisfies the first WP:CORP notability criterion. However, I have yet to find any independently written published works about the computer software. All articles turn out to be simple regurgitations of Crane Streamware's own press releases. A wide circulation of press releases and submitted business directory listings by the vendor of the software itself is not grounds for an encyclopaedia article. Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages nor a product catalogue. There has to be evidence that people know about the software product, and the litmus test for that is whether other people have published things (manuals, reviews, courses, guides, commentaries, and so forth) dealing with it. No-one has, apparently. Unless completely rewritten to be about the notable company rather than the non-notable software product, delete. Uncle G 14:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete ad Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 17:01, 25 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.