Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberated Syndication

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:26, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Liberated Syndication

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Tagged as lacking notability since 2009. Basically no independent sources. Someone not using his real name (talk) 15:56, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The triblive coverage says "Launched in 2004, Libsyn was one of the first companies to offer cheap, fixed-rate online hosting for podcasts -- audio or video broadcasts that can be downloaded onto an iPod or enjoyed online. Wizzard Software, a tech firm based in Bloomfield, snapped up Libsyn last year for $15 million in stock." The rest/most of that article about Wizzard Software. Even the title of that piece is misrepresented as it's actually "Pitt grads create podcast powerhouse with Wizzard" (emphasis mine--the emphasized part was left of out of Wikipedia.) Someone not using his real name (talk) 16:02, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Evolve or delete. Did a little research and this is interesting. Evidently there was a company called Wizard Software that was around since 1995, and was publicly traded on AMEX under the symbol WZE. They tried to do speech recognition longer before Siri. After a bunch of re-orgs and renames through the years, I think they are now "FAB Universal Corporation" of all things. Libsyn was one of several minor acquisitions along the way, during the time they created a "Media" brand to do podcasting, along with Switchpod.com and Blastpodcast.com. Perhaps worth a line or two in that article. The surviving company is still traded as NYSE: FU so there should be plenty of sources for all those 18 years. One SEC-published annual report said they had a billion podcast downloads in 2007. Normally a merge into the parent company would be appropriate, but since there is no such article yet, not sure what to do. Either move this to the current name and evolve it to cover the whole history, or just delete this one and hope someone creates the new one. Agree this article is not worth saving. W Nowicki (talk) 17:32, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Follow-up: I started an article on the combined company in my user area. Quite an interesting (and complicated) history. There are a fair number of wikilinks to Libsyn or Liberated Syndication so if you delete, it is easy enough to add redirects. Not much to salvage from the old article. W Nowicki (talk) 19:33, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 01:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to FAB Universal when that article is ready. My thoughts are whilst LibSyn was a real enabler for the early podcast shows back in the day, it was really a behind-the-scenes hosting company that never gained significant coverage in mainstream media. It's a shame to see this article never got past stub status, and it seems unlikely as this service was in its prime 5 years ago. Big props to W Nowicki for working on the FAB Universal article in their userspace - that's really great! --Breno ^talk 12:01, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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