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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 22:19, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
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Made a research on Google and theirs no reference to proof the publishing company is notable and it seems not to meet WP:GNG. Article looks promotional as well. Gabrielt@lk 20:58, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Authors. Gabrielt@lk 20:58, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
- Comment : Although they have lot of books published under their brand but I don’t think that still meet the fact their suitable to be on Wikipedia for now as per my reason above.--Gabrielt@lk 21:06, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
- Delete My research indicates that this company no longer exists. I do not find it in various lists of SA publishers nor in the list of members of the SA publishing association. I admit that I do not have good access to SA sources, so I will swing back here in case someone has found some (unexpected) strong sources. Lamona (talk) 20:20, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
- Comment (leaning Delete) - Passing mention here: "Producers of mainly popular fiction (specifically romance novels that were exclusively sold to public libraries) such as Benedic/Makro Boeke and Daan Retief/Knowledge Unlimited also had to close down as a result of the shift in the acquisition policies of public libraries." Mentioned again in a 2013 Afrikaans doctoral thesis. I couldn't find any mentions in the National Library of South Africa. It seems like the most likely place to find sources that could meet WP:NCORP are newspaper articles between 1990 and 2000, discussing its closure. (I am not aware of any open access database that archives South African newspapers, so I agree with @Lamona that someone else will have to find such sources.) Suriname0 (talk) 17:01, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
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