Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fosshost

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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 11:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Advertisement and fails WP:GNG and WP:NWEB. Pretty much all primary sources and self reporting, no reliable sources available. Only claim to notability is a 10-day partnership with freenode (not notable both per WP:NINI and WP:1EVENT). Pretty much only self sources passing mentions, and page is a giant advertisement. Naleksuh (talk) 01:19, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:31, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:31, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:31, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, I do not see how they are notable.--Mvqr (talk) 11:40, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly, why would Fosshost advertise, since they're exclusively an open source project providing services to other foss projects, there is no commercial intent or gain for them having a page on wikipedia. The partnership with freenode was notable and caused significant interest from a large number of people, not to mention that they received support from another notable person which has an established page on wikipedia that has been on the wiki since March 2020 (which isn't even addressed in the page). The article can be improved and I will take on this task. The quality of the article is not if better quality than the SPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software in the Public Interest — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.178.54.208 (talk) 13:18, 17 December 2021 (UTC) — 193.178.54.208 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Conflict-of-interest promotion of projects has little to do with for-profit status. There's plenty of advertisement, even paid spam, by non-profits. MarioGom (talk) 15:47, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MarioGom: Yeah, and I wasn't saying that Fosshost organization was advertising either, I said the page was an advertisement. Naleksuh (talk) 17:51, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Naleksuh was a member of the Fosshost community and was removed for their conduct. This user has a personal conflict of interest in the project and their work. Their disruptive behaviour continues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.245.117 (talk) 13:21, 17 December 2021 (UTC) — 82.132.245.117 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 03:34, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete there is a single event about Fosshost that is mildly notable: the Freenode controversy. A small explanation of this at the Freenode article should be sufficient. MarioGom (talk) 15:49, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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