Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scriptorium Fonts
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no references supporting company notabilty provided or found NeilN 16:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
- Speedy Delete per WP:A7. TheIslander 17:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
I can't see any reason why this was nominated for deletion much less Speedy Delete. I'd class the delete request as attempted vandalism. -- Lumpy
- Comment - Care to explain your reasoning? --NeilN 18:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
- As noted in the article discussion, I don't see why this would have been flagged for deletion. Hell, it was flagged while I was still working on the second paragraph. I wouldn't go so far as to call it vandalism, but it's a pretty cut and dried case. This seems like a perfectly reasonable listing for a company with a substantial market presence in an industry where Wikipedia already has listings for a lot of other companies. What's the big deal? - Al --Thalkyudes 00:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- As stated in Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies), "A company, corporation, organization, team, religion, group, product, or service is notable if it has been the subject of coverage in secondary sources. Such sources must be reliable, and independent of the subject. The depth of coverage of the subject by the source must be considered. If the depth of coverage is not substantial, then multiple independent sources should be cited to establish notability. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability. Once notability is established, primary sources may be used to add content. Ultimately, and most importantly, all content must be attributable." --NeilN 00:40, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- As noted in the article discussion, I don't see why this would have been flagged for deletion. Hell, it was flagged while I was still working on the second paragraph. I wouldn't go so far as to call it vandalism, but it's a pretty cut and dried case. This seems like a perfectly reasonable listing for a company with a substantial market presence in an industry where Wikipedia already has listings for a lot of other companies. What's the big deal? - Al --Thalkyudes 00:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- Only very rarely are articles written about fonts and even rarer are those written about a specific foundry or a specific font. Most of them are on the level of a one-line usenet post saying "X font is great." I did include links to the source for all info in the entry, which was drawn from the page on Scriptorium Fonts on MyFonts and from the company website. I've found some more material, but I'm not really sure what's worth adding. I'd like to get this sorted out, because I could improve other entries in this category pretty easily. For example, the entry for Emigre looks like they wrote it themselves, and they're one of the few foundries which really has been written about a lot so there's more material out there that's well substantiated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thalkyudes (talk • contribs) 01:09, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, I've added to the links a review, an article about Scriptorium from Whole Earth Magazine and a couple of other decent sources. What more is needed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thalkyudes (talk • contribs) 01:27, August 27, 2007 (UTC)