Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miomi

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The result was delete. Courcelles 00:55, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Miomi

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Fails the guidance of WP:1E. There is no evidence of $100m funding, only that the University's "Dragon's Den"-type competition claimed to have access to £50m in potential funding. At the time of writing, the miomi.com website appears to be unavailable and www.designthetime.com as mentioned in the Telegraph article is also off-line. Fæ (talk) 13:43, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- Fæ (talk) 13:43, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete. If all the article currently contains is the text:

Miomi.com was an internet startup. It has been claimed that the startup received up to 100 million dollar in funding. Miomi was developed by three post-graduate students: Thomas Whitfield, Charly Toni and Richard Schreiber.

that would appear to me to qualify for speedy deletion as making no minimal claim of importance. There are more extensive versions in the history, but even those are awfully vague about what this website was supposed to do, and instead just gives unreferenced speculation about why it failed: The function of the website is to allow people to look through time and make a personal mark in history. It has been featured as an entirely new approach of viewing and sharing content on the internet and was initiated to capture the world's memories online. Sounds like a failed competitor to Facebook, although the article at its largest was still uninformative and made no particular claim to minimal significance. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 14:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - advertising. Speedy seems appropriate, this article contains nothing. Carrite (talk) 16:09, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - and I'm a self-declared inclusionist! I did the original major trim, and since then nobody has found anything sensible to add. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 17:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Subject of article does not clearly satisfy WP:N. Edison (talk) 03:40, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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