Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LiteSpeed Web Server

LiteSpeed Web Server

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Claims to be the 4th most popular web server, but I can't actually find any WP:RS which talk about it. You would think that a web server which supposedly drives 2.9% of the sites on the internet would have tons of stuff written about it. The fact that I can find so little leads me to believe that the reported statistics are dubious. My guess is that most of the sites which use this are parked domains and things like that (but that's just speculation). Lots of mentions in hosting provider how-to documents, but that's not what we need. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OpenLiteSpeed. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:04, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 13:13, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 13:13, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – I feel pretty stupid since I've been attempting to maintain this article without actually looking into detail about its notability, but in any case... the software appears to be used almost exclusively by large, commercial web hosting services, and as such there are very little WP:RS that even mention it; any articles about LSWS are apparently published by companies who use the software themselves, or are otherwise connected. So yes, the statistics are likely biased or fudged. Oh well. -- Pingumeister^(talk) 14:47, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Hello, my name is Dmitri Tikhonov -- I am a programmer employed by LiteSpeed Technologies, the maker of the LiteSpeed Web Server. Obviously, I would like to see to it that this page not be deleted. In reply to the original criticism, the 2.9% figure comes from W3Techs, which is used as WP:RS in many Wikipedia articles. The position that W3Tech statistics are fudged has to be proved. Other than W3Techs, LiteSpeed Web Server is mentioned in NetCraft web server surveys from February and May of this year. Would you call NetCraft numbers biased? In regards to LiteSpeed Web Server usage: yes, we proudly serve the needs of our customers -- large, commercial web hosting providers. It does not make our software product less legitimate than Apache, Nginx, or IIS. I would like to be given an opportunity to improve this Wikipedia page to adhere to standards so that it is not deleted. I can look for, and include in the page, more -- or different -- WP:RS if that is what it takes. LiteSpeed Web Server is the fruit of many years of labor, of ingenuity and sweat of hardworking people. Please be fair to them. Dmitri tikhonov (talk) 03:05, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am quite concerned here about the conflict of interest you pose, if you are willing to be a major contributor to the article. Please read the policy guideline here: WP:COI. Also, nobody is being unfair to the creators of the software. I am a software engineer myself, and I frequently work on software which I know does not meet the notability standard for Wikipedia. It's not about the quality of the article or the quality of the software in question. Please read the general notability guideline here: WP:GNG. As for the topic of the LightSpeed Technologies organization, there is a specific notability guideline for organizations here: WP:ORG. Please do not be offended that this article is being considered for deletion. Cheers, -- Pingumeister^(talk) 09:57, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]