Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TechExcel DevSuite
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Article does not indicate notability. Only third-party references read like press-releases. Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:02, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:14, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Delete: I failed to find any references that don't look like paid promotion. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 21:54, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
- Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 14:54, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
- Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talkabout my edits? 19:43, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Keep The award references in the article do check out; as with many industry-specific awards it can be difficult to assess real relevance, but there are technical readership awards in there, and the suite was a Stevie Awards finalist. But there are also reliable-looking book references (I added one to the article) and others such as this in snippet view, describing it as a "market-leading defect and project tracking solution". Enough I think for a presumption against non-notability. AllyD (talk) 20:24, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Actually Stevie Awards don't help, as this is a business award, not a software one. Business award is a good point in the article about the company, but not about software. The books are a good point in keeping it, but I'm not convinced that the software of a kind can possibly be notable: it is only of niche professional interest; the article itself suggests 1500 customers. I think the answer for this question can be directly translated to keep or delete outcome by the closing admin. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 21:10, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I take your point about niche professional s/w - difficult to be firm on notability. Your comments raise a wider question: rather than an article entitled "TechExcel DevSuite", which is after all a bundling of various products, would it be better renamed to "TechExcel" and repurposed to cover the company as a business? They do also have a Service Desk product range, which appears to have some recognition (assuming I managed to see past the press releases) and which would then also have a home position. AllyD (talk) 21:25, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- I think that moving and repurposing the article to TechExcel company with brief description of products would be a good idea, but then we need at least to prove that TechExcel passes WP:NCORP. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 07:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I take your point about niche professional s/w - difficult to be firm on notability. Your comments raise a wider question: rather than an article entitled "TechExcel DevSuite", which is after all a bundling of various products, would it be better renamed to "TechExcel" and repurposed to cover the company as a business? They do also have a Service Desk product range, which appears to have some recognition (assuming I managed to see past the press releases) and which would then also have a home position. AllyD (talk) 21:25, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Actually Stevie Awards don't help, as this is a business award, not a software one. Business award is a good point in the article about the company, but not about software. The books are a good point in keeping it, but I'm not convinced that the software of a kind can possibly be notable: it is only of niche professional interest; the article itself suggests 1500 customers. I think the answer for this question can be directly translated to keep or delete outcome by the closing admin. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 21:10, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Move to TechExcel and diversify. Stifle (talk) 10:19, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
- Delete as failing GNG. Like nominator, I can't find significant coverage of this product in RS or the company as passing NCORP. Minor industry awards are not convincing. TechExcel may make good software, but I can't find any sources which cover it or its products indepth. Article appears to be written by someone (User:PattiCakes91; 28 edits) inside the company. TechExcel ServiceWise has all the same issues (written by User:Techwizization; 10 edits). Virtually everything about both articles is marketing-related. BusterD (talk) 14:54, 1 February 2012 (UTC)