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Expressor

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Non-notable software. Reference given does not confer notability and do not count as reliable source.

• Part of a spam campaign see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2009_Archive_Nov_1#expressor_software

Article was created Hijacked by an WP:SPA account (Consultant for expressor software), with no other edits other than related to Expressor software. Hu12 (talk) 17:52, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

CLARIFICATION: article was created by an active editor, User:J mareeswaran, who's been around for years. It seems to have been seized on by a spammer; but the article's creator is not to be blamed. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:09, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

To make matters simpler, I have reverted the article to the state it was in before Casey began his spamming campaign. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:12, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Ive struck and clarified to fit this version--Hu12 (talk) 18:49, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I edited the expressor page on December 1 to address the issues raised about objectivity and notability in the AfD of 11/24 -- and modeled my edits very closely on the existing Wikipedia pages of two of the company's competitors, Talend and Informatica, neither of which has been marked AfD. In fact, since I noticed that Talend was using the exact same market description as Informatica, and expressor is a competitor of both companies, I used the same language on the expressor page. My intent was not to spam, but to provide an objective description of this organization, similar to the pages created for this purpose by other similar organizations. It appears in this thread that "non-notable software" has been raised as a reason for the most recent AfD notice, because the "reference given does not confer notability and do not count as reliable sources." FYI, the references included in my edits of 12/1 were several of the leading independent, objective industry analyst firms such as Gartner, Bloor Research and 451 Group, who evaluate companies such as expressor and Talend and Informatica, as well as news coverage of expressor by leading, objective trade magazines, such as Computerworld. After reading the notability guidelines for corporate entries, I concluded these references were acceptable examples of "independent coverage."