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Nomination of Lace International Ltd for deletion

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Oneilius: Notability of this company

Moved from Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Lace International Ltd

Thank you for pointing me in the direction of WP:Notability_(organizations_and_companies), which explains what might qualify why this company may fail WPNCORP. I may have just missed the link previously, but I had felt like there was no explanation provided, so I was unsure what was wanted. Upon review of these guidelines, I believe the only discussion really had about this company (in general) is the controversy surrounding its former subsidiary (Lace Mamba Global), which has been dissolved into the parent company, and the company's voluntary liquidation in 2015. At the time I wrote the article (I only contribute occasionally on Wikipedia), I only had seen that the previous article (for Lace Mamba Global) had been deleted because it was almost wholly written as an advertisement; I was unaware of the notability requirement. When User:SwisterTwister posted the automatic deletion tag, the explanation was "Searches found nothing at all to suggest anything or enough for independent notability for its own article; nothing else convincing" but it did not point me to anywhere explaining what was required for notability.

This said, I wonder about the notability of several other companies found on Wikipedia, such as Deep Silver. Does a mere mention by another company (such as a report on games at PAX) qualify it for notability? The article for Deep Silver, for instance, does not appear to demonstrate that the company as "had any significant or demonstrable effects on culture, society, entertainment, athletics, economies, history, literature, science, or education." Does simply publishing games from development studios satisfy this guideline? This is not intended as a complaint, but rather a line of questions for better understanding.

My confusion comes from how other articles not being slated for deletion differ from this one. Companies such as Microsoft, Nintendo, and Apple make sense to me, but I don't think those like Deep Silver or Focus Home Interactive have had any significant or demonstrable effects on entertainment, other than that independent video game developers have been able to get their games published (which is the same that Lace International has done). Can you help me understand the difference?

I also apologize for WPREFBOMBing the article. As mentioned before, I don't create or edit a lot on Wikipedia, so I did not realize I was overusing citations. I have removed a large number of these from the article. Should this page remain on Wikipedia, please let me know if there are still too many references.

Oneilius (talk) 06:13, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Hey Oneilius, here are some answers but let me know if I missed something important. WP:42 is the best place to start (articles require(significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources) because its links are descriptive. The secondary notability criteria come after this "general" notability guideline, mainly to save us from having long discussions when the sources presumably exist for famous entities of a certain stature. (That said, I'm personally opposed to the latter.) So, as sourced, Deep Silver has sourcing issues, but the expectation would be to try to source it before attempting to delete it (look for reliable sources in the video game reliable sources custom Google search). I would wager, without going through the results, that enough has been written on Deep Silver's history to warrant an article but perhaps not. Sometimes an article is kept in a deletion discussion despite being in terrible shape. That's because the discussion is really about whether we have enough good sources to write a decent article on the subject, so there is no commitment to who necessarily does the cleanup. Send me a {{ping}} if you have any more questions or check out some of the links (such as the video game project talk page) in the welcome message below. czar 04:57, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

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