Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Instant messaging manager
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete. Tawker (talk) 19:24, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
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Fails WP:GNG. As the lead makes clear, the article seems to exist to promote products of certain companies, explaining why such software is necessary. Sources here as well as those that I'm finding when I look for them, are almost entirely primary, promotional, about different subjects altogether, or through unreliable sources. — Rhododendrites talk | 23:18, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
- Note: additional COI issue - It appears the page creator, Donnymo has a short user contrib history that consists largely of editing articles to include this information, including links to the companies and descriptions of their products (Akonix and IM Security Center are the ones that stuck out). (see Instant messaging, Instant messaging again, Greynet, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger again, Yahoo! Messenger again, Windows Live Messenger, MSN Messenger -- I stopped there). --— Rhododendrites talk | 23:27, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:00, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
- Delete. Too promotional. The article sounds almost defensive, as if it's attempting to justify the existence of these products. Even if this topic were notable, the article would need to be rewritten from scratch. I don't see much point in keeping a one-sentence stub. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:19, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
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