Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OpenAthens

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 keep. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 05:27, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I do not see a clear case for the notability of this software. The only provided sources are either primary or related to patents, and there is little evidence of substantial secondary coverage. The article itself is a disinteresting stub. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:01, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Products-related deletion discussions. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:01, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:01, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Jisc which appears to be the organization that runs it. Even though the Jisc article does not say much about OpenAthens? Indeed, the OpenAthens article only has sources about the trademarks, and I could only get one of them to work. Or delete if that is the consensus. W Nowicki (talk) 21:59, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  Comment - There is a brief mention of OpenAthens on the Jisc page under "services". Iskandar323 (talk) 22:05, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, albeit not even a full sentence and no source for that. W Nowicki (talk) 17:15, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Could someone please click on the word "scholar" above and comment on what is found there? Phil Bridger (talk) 19:05, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Nobody took up my suggestion above, so I must do so myself and say that there are very many independent reliable sources with significant coverage readily available. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:26, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep There are pages and pages and pages in google news search for OpenAthens, and they're pretty much all this org. Most are trivial mentions, but there are more indepth things such as https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/how-efficient-tools-showcase-library-s-impact https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/evidence-services/journals-and-databases/OpenAthens etc. Kathlene Smoot (talk) 19:41, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep It is one of the two main identity services providers to most of the universities in the world. The other one is Shibboleth Single Sign-on architecture. -Hatchens (talk) 05:49, 3 November 2021 (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.