Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beckett Media

Beckett Media

Beckett Media (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Created this article in January 2008. While it has some content, almost all of the sourcing is from press releases, showing little actual verifiable notability for the company, despite its claim at being a "leading authority on sports memorabilia cards". It was tagged for CSD as spam/advertisement, which was addressed on the talk page and a notability tag added instead. Since that time, all the coverage I've been able to find continues to be press releases and random quotes from Beckett employees in articles about sports card. As such, it continues to fails WP:COMPANY and I am prodding it as it is not CSD eligible as author deletion as others have done at least some minor edits to it. Was prodded but an IP that likely heralds from Beckett Media itself, considering it geolocates to them,[1] requested it be undeleted at WP:UNDELETE and so an admin restored. Their reason was "Anyone who knows anything about sports cards and memorabilia knows the place that Beckett holds in the hobby -- and that's just one part of Beckett Media's publishing scope. While the page was out of date, it is a privately owned company so much of the information sought wouldn't be public knowledge, anyway. Today, beckett publishes countless magazines every month, all of which can be seen at store.beckett.com" - which is of course no reason to undelete it. The company still has no actual notability beyond its own publicity from press releases and its employees occasionally being quoted during interviews about sports stuff. If all primary sources were removed, it would have no real content at all. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 21:36, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:08, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

A discussion about deleting this entry because of irrelevance is preposterous. The company publishes nearly 40 magazine issues a year on trading cards alone -- as well as several books every year, too. You can walk into any card shop or Walmart in America and find a Beckett magazine (or two or three) and those facts say more than any link from any source would. There is NO other company that covers sports cards and memorabilia to that degree and Beckett has been around for 30-plus years. If you read what is on the Beckett Media entry, what is outlandish that it's credibility is questioned? Facts are stated -- not sales pitch. This wreaks of some wanting to have fun with the image of a company by suggesting deletion based on press release mongering and irrelevance that aren't seen in that entry. The fact that a blog with just a dozen followers is writing a "story" about it -- http://www.sportscardreport.info/2010/03/award-winning-wikipedia-contributor.html -- just reinforces this. Just because some story can't be found online doesn't mean something doesn't exist or isn't relevant. If Beckett is a privately owned company, a LOT of the info about it will never be made public. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.190.59.30 (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2010 (UTC)