Talk:getAbstract

Proposed deletion of GetAbstract International Book Award[edit]

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Added references and removed the non-reference and notability flags. Notability established by references to The Economist, Mint (Indian Edition of The Wall Street Journal), Shanghai Daily (Shanghai's larges English-language newspaper. Rkonig (talk) 13:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All three of those references are examples of web sites that use getAbstract. None of them contain an article about getAbstract which could show that the company is notable per WP:N and WP:COMPANY. We are looking for people who are independent of getAbstract, that have researched the company, and written a non-trivial article about it.

The company's own web site has useful data about the company:

http://www.getabstract.com/www/jsp/Story.jsp is about the company history
http://www.getabstract.com/pages/0/web/AboutUs.jsp lists some of their major clients

This makes it easy to spot those web pages that are doing trivial coverage as you'll see they just copy/pasted from getAbstrat's own site, Wikipedia, or their press releases, rather than interviewing the founders, going through available public records and press announcements, visiting on site, etc. to independently write an article. It's easy to find examples of trivial coverage

http://www.quarkbase.com/show/getabstract.com
http://www.branchenbuch.ch/portrait.asp?Id=31647 - this is one of the better pages though as they took the trouble to dig up photos of the founders, etc. Unfortunately, they did not write about the company but rather posted a copy of their rate sheet.
http://www.portfolio.com/resources/company-profiles/Getabstract-Inc-769190
http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmer-maerkte/getabstract-311669/
http://www.moneyhouse.ch/u/pub/getabstract_ag_CH-100.3.023.052-2.htm
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/926904 - copies Wikipedia text. --Marc Kupper|talk 08:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added references to Financial Times Germany, Swiss National Television, two Chinese business portals and others where getAbstract is used as editorial content. Also added a reference to the official Frankfurt Book Fair website. Notability established.Rkonig (talk) 21:05, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added references to Bloomberg Television and websites of book publishers Wiley and Princeton. Rkonig (talk) 15:41, 18 August 2009 (UTC) Deleted Ad-sounding wording Viktorbuehler (talk) 21:33, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]