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Senator International

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I am unconvinced that this company meets the notability requirements of WP:CORP. The references cited are predominantly primary sources or in a specialist publication that is of little use for demonstrating notability. More mainstream coverage (but still local) predominantly discusses the airport the company flies to, rather than the company itself. My own searches have not turned up anything better and so unless I have missed something, I think it falls short of meeting our requirements. SmartSE (talk) 20:31, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:42, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:42, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

• Delete The on-line sources are less than impressive:

1. [1] is the website of the subject
2. [2] This seems to be the only article with a byline. I'm not sure that it mentions anything we would find notable. It's used to support the statement "Since November 2016, "Senator International" has offered its own scheduled service from Munich and Frankfurt-Hahn to Greenville-Spartanburg using a Boeing 747 F."
3. [3] That website doesn't seem to work; all I see is a logo.
4. [4] Mentions a "a noteworthy biz model involving 4 parties". As far as I'm concerned, it's just another way of leasing a cargo plane.
5. [5] is the website of a company the subject merged with
6. [6] is the website of a company the formed a joint-venture with
7. [7] Looks like a press release from München aiport announce that the subject leased a plane from Air Atlanta Icelandic. That's a routine anouncement, not news, and definitely not encyclopedic.
8. [8] is the website of the subject
9. [9] is the website of the subject
10. [10] is the website of the subject
11. [11] is the website of the subject
12. [12] is the website of the subject
13. [13] is the website of the subject
14. [14] is the website of the subject
15. [15] is the website of the subject
16. [16] is a Business-to-business database

TLDR; It's an advertisement about a company that does not meet our general notability criteria and fails WP:CORPDEPTH. It is perhaps worth noting that a major contributor is a paid editor (no surprise, really). It takes some poking around, because User:Atomiccocktail and User: Einfach machen Hamburg, who are the same editor, has decided to disclose his COI at meta:User:Atomiccocktail, or rather at de:Benutzer:Einfach_machen_Hamburg but doesn't link to that account from the ones he uses to edit on enwiki. He does mention it in the edit summaries. Also note that the existance of an article on the subject in the German Wikipedia does not establish notability. German wikipedia has different policies and guidelines than enwiki. Mduvekot (talk) 23:19, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

It seems as if this is just an odd campaign against paid editing. To my mind the statement on the sources distorts the reality.

This article is based mostly on information given in DVZ. The Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung (DVZ, formerly Deutsche Logistik-Zeitung) is a specialized journal of the transport and logistics branch since 1947. If information of company’s website is used, it is to service the reader: “Once notability is established, primary sources and self-published sources may be used to verify some of the article's content.”, see WP:CORP.

Turnover, branches and recognition in their business field indicate the relevance of this company in its market. Not only FedEx or Kuehne + Nagel are players there. Atomiccocktail (talk) 08:57, 6 October 2017 (UTC)