Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trustroots

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 01:07, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Trustroots

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Trivial mentions only for this, usually self generated content or in passing comparison to Couchsurfing.com in articles about the sharing economy. Doesn't meet WP:NORG or WP:GNG Unbh (talk) 13:41, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:39, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

• Delete fails WP:GNG. Mostly gets passing mentions. LibStar (talk) 05:01, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
• Delete This is an organization therefore NCORP guidelines apply. I'm assuming all the sources are reliable and the publishers are corporately independent from the topic organization - but there's more requirements than that for establishing notability. WP:NCORP requires multiple sources (at least two) of deep or significant coverage with in-depth information *on the organization* and (this bit is important!) containing "Independent Content". "Independent content", in order to count towards establishing notability, must include original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. Not a single reference either mentioned above or in the article meet the criteria. Topic fails WP:NCORP. HighKing⁺⁺ 20:08, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Here's a breakdown of why the references fail NCORP:

• This from Nikkei.com doesn't even mention the topic organization, fails CORPDEPTH
• This from travelawaits includes a short description of the company in a Top 12 list (defined as "trivial coverage"), fails CORPDEPTH
• This from inlander.com is a mention-in-passing, fails CORPDEPTH
• This from scmp.com is a mere mention-in-passing, fails CORPDEPTH
• This is a blog post from one of the founders in 2014, fails WP:RS
• This from Traxcn, a website for investors and VCs, has a profile of the company which anyone can edit, fails WP:RS
• Finally, this from kp.ru mentions the topic organization along with BeWelcome and provides a generic explanation of a "couchsurfing" service, does not discuss the topic org, fails CORPDEPTH.

Happy to review any other references but I am unable to locate anything that meets NCORP. HighKing⁺⁺ 21:09, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much for having stopped copy-pasting boilerplate. This comment looks legit.--Geysirhead (talk) 14:03, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

• I created this page out of Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, because Trustroots is a volunteer-powered non-profit organization for altruism like Wikipedia itself.--Geysirhead (talk) 10:40, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

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