Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cybernautic

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The result was delete. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 02:55, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cybernautic

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Spammy article for a company apparently written by its president & CEO. There are a lot of spurious web hits, but I can find one shortish mention from Gnews. Despite the article's claim of a big Facebook fanbase, I think it means that the Extreme Makeover project for which Cybernautic designed a page has a big fanbase. I cannot find the " significant coverage in [reliable, independent] secondary sources" that it would take to pass WP:CORP. Glenfarclas (talk) 23:22, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the lists of Business-related deletions and Illinois-related deletions. —Closeapple (talk) 01:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. —Closeapple (talk) 02:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, spammy, minimally notable entry. Hairhorn (talk) 00:08, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I can't find significant coverage for this company. Joe Chill (talk) 00:10, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete, an online business with no showing of minimal importance other than a claim to have Facebook fans. Note that cybernaut itself redirects to User (computing). (Ah, the Nineties!) - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:25, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Rather blatant self-promotion. I especially got a laugh out of the user putting himself in the same short list with State Farm Insurance and Mitsubishi. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:18, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Cited Sources - Documentation for the Extreme Makeover:Home Edition episode page on facebook [1] has been added as well as the blog coverage [2] and a national magazine article [3]. This site was the first episode site for the TV Show that did not crash during development and this was considered newsworthy by Rackspace and Information Week Magazine. - cparker6 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:28, 9 January 2010 (UTC). — Cparker6 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Blogs, Facebook, etc are generally not considered reliable sources. That leaves a single article in a trade magazine, which is a pretty shaky foundation for notability. Hairhorn (talk) 23:58, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Looks promotional to me, but shows little to promote. Peridon (talk)
Delete. Fails Wikipedia notability under WP:LOCAL/WP:CORP; some local subcontractor for the contractor used by a production company for an episode of a TV show. No WP:RS for WP:Wikipuffery like "one of the largest web design firms in the State of Illinois" — barely enough claim to avoid WP:CSD#A7, and even the Rackspace press releases refer to Cybernautic's size as "its estimated 200 client websites". IW article looks like an enhanced press release. Regardless, WP:Autobiography so cherry picked confirmation bias. There are more Google News articles about Cybernautics, a California web hosting company that was bought out a year before this Illinois one claims to have started. Also not(?) to be confused with similar local firm Cyberdesic (bought by Rocky Mountain Internet right after Dave's World, 1999) or Cyberonic or the dozen other firms named various forms of "Cybernetic" just in Illinois. --Closeapple (talk) 01:35, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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