Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pluggd

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The result was Delete with no prejudice against anyone creating a redirect at this title. Hut 8.5 20:56, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pluggd

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. The company was mentioned in two reliable sources, but in the context of discussing its founder, who may have a bigger claim to notability; the company's coverage was pretty much in passing. I looked for other sources but except few more mentions in passing (~~ex. a sentence in [1]~~) I don't see much. I don't think such mentions are enough to make this pass cited notability policies. WP:NOTYELLOWPAGES, and WP:CORPSPAM. Thoughts? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:58, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The Economic Times piece linked above is about <pluggd.in>, which was a different venture (subsequently NextBigWhat). AllyD (talk) 08:20, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 08:23, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: The 2006-7 start-up coverage related to the firm's original proposition before they "witnessing iTunes “suck the air out” of the market" [2]. I have added a brief summary of their subsequent refocus and then acquisition by another firm. There is already brief coverage at Limelight_Networks#Acquisitions which seems sufficient but perhaps could be expanded to "August 2011 the company acquired Delve Networks, Inc. (formerly pluggd.com), a privately held provider..." if it was felt appropriate to selectively merge a trace history of the original start-up. AllyD (talk) 08:31, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A redirect to Limelight Networks would be preferable to outright deletion, thank you for finding a valid target. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:28, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as it is mentioned at the parent company article as is, that's all there's to say since it's no longer an active independent company. SwisterTwister talk 22:19, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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