Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VFS Global

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. Removing the bad faith assumptions by the nom, the concerns brought for discussion were about the coverage and if the company is, in fact notable. Numerous cites have been brought forth and it's clear that there's a significant amount of coverage that pushes this past WP:GNG. While nobody has re-written it since it was flagged in November, the solution isn't to delete it. (non-admin closure) Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 11:39, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines for a business. The company has lots of hits on Google News but, if you look through them, they're the same few publications. I'm suspecting a PR department was involved in those articles. Also, the article was published by a Single Purpose Account (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Smoothtie ). The page has been flagged as an advert since November and no one re-wrote it, which is a sign of the lack of notability of the subject and the possibility that the page was created as a part of a PR campaign. Delete please. CerealKillerYum (talk) 19:28, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 19:47, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 19:47, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 19:47, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep In the article there's this article in The Star, which is pretty decent. Other news coverage is this article in Times of India. Since VFS global is a major company in outsourcing of visas, there's couple of books with coverage on it: [1] and [2] and there's also this lengthy paper which talks a lot about VFS global and its "dominant position in the Schengen visa processing market". Galobtter (pingó mió) 19:16, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The subject has enough coverage in the news to pass WP:GNG. Also as Galobtter mentioned, it is a major player in visa services across the globe, and also provides services to governments of many countries. KCVelaga (talk) 02:04, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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