Jlk0221

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A tag has been placed on Peerless Network, Inc., requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
• It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Hello Jlk0221, I read all your questions at Cabayi talk page which I think you did. Actually the nomination was right due to the way the article was writing. Your article sounds like an Advert. I just made an edit to the article, by fixing the issue raised. You are welcome to the Wikipedia Teahouse where you can ask your questions. Happy editing --Music Boy50 (talk) 22:29, 3 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Peerless Network, Inc. is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peerless Network, Inc. until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. —Oluwa2Chainz »» (talk to me) 21:48, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Given that the discussion is at Articles for deletion you might want to make your vote clearer than Support. WP:DISCUSSAFD offers guidance. Cabayi (talk) 08:48, 8 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hey there! Your article is now located at Draft:Peerless Network. Feel free to continue working on it there! --Cerebellum (talk) 15:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

OK, as promised I did some research and here is my opinion on the notability of the article. I understand that you want to include the article because the technology that Peerless has developed is important. However, Wikipedia can't just take your word for it - we need sources showing that the technology is important. I think the sources do show that, but just barely.

We need reliable, independent sources. The patents are not independent, so they are not good sources. The Bloomberg and Inc.com pages are just directories, they are not reliable. The WN.com article appears to be a press release, so it is not reliable. The FCC document is just an official document, not an independent source showing that someone has taken note of this company.

However, you have three good sources: the articles from Telecom Signalling, Crain's Chicago, and Web Host Industry Review. As you've noted, articles are organizations are generally assumed to be advertisements, so the notability guideline for them is especially strict - we disallow local media and media of limited interest and circulation. The Crain's Chicago piece is local, and the other two might be considered limited interest, but since you have three I think you are ok. I found one more article as well, which brings us up to four reliable sources. So, in my opinion, the company is notable.

However, before we publish it, we have to remove any promotional material. Take out the press release link and the directory links, and remove unsourced claims like "Peerless Network carries 8 Billion Minutes of Traffic per Month." Once that's done, go ahead and submit the draft for review. This article is a borderline case for notability so I can't guarantee that it will be accepted, but I'd say there's a chance. Don't give up and keep working on the article! Let me know if you have any questions. --Cerebellum (talk) 00:26, 10 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

I have copied what you wrote on my talk page to the draft talk page at Draft talk:Peerless Network, so that you do not have to write it out again, and anyone reviewing the draft can read it. It reads convincingly, and if sourced it would greatly improve the article, but unless backed up by sources I am afraid it will not be effective, because Wikipedia does not make the subjective judgement Is this important or significant? Instead, the WP:Notability test asks the more objective question Is there evidence that people independent of this consider it important or significant?

Two of our fundamental policies are Wikipedia:Verifiability which requires reliable published sources so that a reader can check on Wikipedia's facts, and Wikipedia:No original research which says that Wikipedia can only report what the sources say, not its editors' deductions from them. Specifically, the No original research policy includes WP:SYNTH: "Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources."

Your sources show that the company has a number of patents, but the conclusions that those inventions gave "a major contribution to why the majority of Americans and US businesses now enjoy significantly reduced telecommunications rates" and make "the process of placing a wireless phone call significantly less expensive" are not documented by the sources, and so not usable. Was there no comment in the trade press, or in technical journals, on the effect on the telecoms market of these innovations? JohnCD (talk) 22:28, 29 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

I guess that you work for Peerless. In that case, you should read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. You will see that COI editing, while discouraged, is not forbidden, but you should generally submit drafts or make suggestions on article talk pages, rather than editing directly.

What is required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use ("Paid contributions without disclosure" under section 4), and in some jurisdictions by laws against covert advertising, is that you disclose your interest in any edits for which you expect to receive remuneration, either directly or as part of your paid employment. You can do that by a statement on your main user page User:Jlk0221 on the lines of "I am employed by Peerless Networks and edit Wikipedia on their behalf". JohnCD (talk) 22:29, 29 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Actually - I am not an employee - and I was simply trying to find a topic to cut my wiki chops on, and thought this might be a good one since I knew of the company and they didn't already have a presence. I thought learning about Wiki would be important -- and fun (I was wrong about the last part.) I have to say as a side note, that the process is very difficult, not because following the guidelines is hard (I honestly think I did that from the onset - and actually met all "notability" criteria, wrote in a neutral voice and only provided facts), but it seems that if the article is about an organization, the assumption is that it is an advertisement (just my novice opinion).

Anyway, as I am still learning here - I don't know where or how to make my final argument for inclusion, so I'll just state it here in the hopes that this is correct. Per the notability guidelines for Organizations - this article and Peerless absolutely meet these requirements - and I've provide ample 3rd-party links to satisfy this criterial. I've also backed that up with links to all of Peerless's patents (which I understand don't qualify as verifiable on their own, but per the guidelines - can act as strong support). Peerless has been in business since 2008, employs 100+ persons, earns an estimated $80+M in revenue (although as a private company, they don't publish their revenues), and has been recognized as outstanding in its field, owns other companies which are listed on Wikipedia (and is mentioned there - with a now-dead link), and employs persons who are notable on their own. Additionally, they've been awarded nine US patents for telecommunication services. Per my interpretation of the guidelines, this article and its subject meets them and should be published on Wikipedia (which is what I honestly care about). Thank you.Jlk0221 (talk) 17:34, 30 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

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