Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alternate (company)

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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 12:19, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate (company)

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No indication of importance, seems more like an advert than anything else --☣Anar chyte☣ 09:41, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) --☣Anar chyte☣ 09:55, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. --☣Anar chyte☣ 10:00, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Snow keep - This is a huge company, revenue $500M in 2010, $600M in 2012. German PC Magazine ranked it third under "Retailer of the Year" behind Amazon and Dell [1] in 2013, and in 2014 it won "IT Distributor of the Year." [2]. Ref here from 2009 that they are largest electronics mailorder company in Germany [3]. The German article is not great with the sources unfortunately and it's going to be hard to find sources with a name like "Alternate"... The formal corporate names "Alternate GmbH" (98,000 Google results) or "Alternate Computerversand GmbH" (10,000 results) are used for a lot of PR/business listings. I'll try to find the right combination of search terms and the best sources for coverage. —Мандичка^YO 😜 10:39, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:00, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:02, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

delete There's no content here. If someone wants to improve the article, then that would quickly change to a keep, but as it is, we have nothing in this article worth the bytes it's written on. The larger this company actually is (presumably proportional to its notability), the less accurate and thus encyclopedic this tiny article would appear to be. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:16, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Dingley, FYI, the current state of the article is not considered during AfD. WP:CONTN, WP:NRV —Мандичка^YO 😜 14:18, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is no point in using WP just to inaccurately describe a claimed $600M company as "a computer shop in Belgium", which is where the article currently stands. Either fix it or delete it as grossly misleading. It would be no loss to lose it, it would remove the inaccuracy. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:01, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If only there were a place on Wikipedia where a group of people could come together and do something like, I don't know, see what they could find, content wise, to fix an article with such clear issues that its very existence is threatened. —Мандичка^YO 😜 13:28, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:50, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I couldn't find anything in searches more significant than mentions. The @de WP has an article, but it also lacks 3rd party references. (There is one there, but it doesn't mention the company itself.) LaMona (talk) 05:14, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.