Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bit8

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 19:19, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bit8

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Promotional article of a company that fails WP:NCORP. Was speedily deleted yesterday, and already recreated by a likely COI/paid editor. Any useful content could be added to its parent company, Intralot. Edwardx (talk) 10:33, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I have left a message to the original editor who speedily deleted the page citing policy G11. I have rewritten the article to remove any unintentional content that could be interpreted as being promotional. I am not a paid editor or have conflict of interest. The company in question is one of the best known platform companies in the online gaming industry and I had found it strange that there was no article about it (like many other companies in Malta). I will be adding more content to address this though am finding the process a bit frustrating with two deletion nominations and not sure why. Maltalinks (talk) 11:40, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Have rewritten the paragraph mentioned by EdwardX. Hope this version is more acceptable like this. Many thanks for the useful tips, please bear with me as I am treating this article as a bit of a learning curve - will try to get this one right before writing more. Maltalinks (talk) 14:18, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge - Whatever information is salvageable can be included in the page for Interlot. There is nothing out there to show Bit8 is independently notable. --CNMall41 (talk) 19:26, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as fundamentally non-notable independently. jcc (tea and biscuits) 19:40, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First of all - a genuine thanks to Seraphimblade, Edwardx, CNMall41, jcc for your time. This experience will help me improve future submissions and articles to Wikipedia. I have looked carefully at the WP:COMPANY notability guidelines and in my opinion Bit8 falls under the notability criteria. I would appreciate it if you can point out anything wrong with my reasoning below so I'll make the right decisions in the future:

Source	Significant?	Independent?	Reliable?	Secondary?	Pass/Fail	Notes
Coverage in CalvinAyre	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	An in-depth article about the company's innovations in a well-known independent source for online gaming industry news and info.
Cover Story and Profile in SIGMA	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	This company had the cover story of the SIGMA magazine, which is issued by the largest online gaming event agency in Malta. It is like the Who is Who of the gaming industry in Malta. This is how I had learnt about Bit8 myself.
Video and coverage of Bit8 by the Malta Communications Authority	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	This coverage by the Malta Communications Authority is about as independent as it can get. The company won their innovation awards - which is notable in itself.
Coverage in The Malta Independent	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	National news coverage about Bit8 and innovation. There is the chairman of the Malta Gaming Authority on record saying that 'Bit8 is one of the best examples of home grown innovation which I can think of'. This was one of the reasons why I believe the company is notable.
Coverage in Times of Malta	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	National news coverage about Bit8 in Times of Malta, including a comment by Malta's prime minister. This is another reason why I believe the company is notable. The Times of Malta is one of the main authoritative sources of news coming from Malta.
Total qualifying sources					5	There are multiple qualifying sources meeting the notability requirements. There are two independent mentions by a prime minister and a chairman of a national regulator.

As declared in my page, I had worked in the online gaming industry in Malta (over 10 years) and my motivation is to document the adoption of AI in this particular industry. This information is missing from Wikipedia.

Regarding the merge comment, the Bit8 company still operates independently with its own brand and its technical contributions to the industry were made many years before the Intralot acquisition. Merging this information within Intralot would distort the historical record, and would make it look like Intralot created all the stuff like player lifetime value optimization, etc. This is why I believe that the article entry should remain independent and separate to be a true and accurate historical description of one of the early adoptions of AI in the online gaming industry. As I do more research on this topic there will be more references to these origins and I do not think it would make sense to link them to Intralot - it would be like merging DeepMind into the Google article (of course on a smaller scale, but you get the gist).

Appreciate your feedback and your time - this discussion will help me make a more efficient contributor to Wikipedia in the future. Would appreciate it if the deletion tag is removed.

(I have also looked at List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_in_online_gambling and many articles need a bit of a cleanup, which I can do in a responsible manner.) Maltalinks (talk) 08:18, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:09, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Hi Maltalinks, you need to also take a read of WP:NCORP, especially WP:ORGIND and you need to look for references that are intellectually independent. The CalvinAyre reference relies on an interview (verbatim) with the founder and CEO and fails WP:CORPDEPTH and/or WP:ORGIND. The SIGMA PDF magazine also fails as it is not intellectually independent as 1) Bit8 advertises with the magazine (page 10) and 2) the cover story on Bit8 is another verbatim interview with the CEO and founder and fails WP:CORPDEPTH and/or WP:ORGIND. The Malta Communications Authority reference is an award to the platform and not to the company and contains no in-depth information on the company, failing WP:CORPDEPTH. The Malta Independent reference may be relevant but I do not know if the awards are notable. The eGR Awards are for the gaming industry where you need to join as a member and it allows advertising so I would have a question over the independence. Perhaps someone else has a better idea than me. There are two Times of Malta references. The first is based on a company announcement and a "celebration" of a strategic alliance and relies extensively on quotations from company sources, not intellectually independent and failing WP:ORGIND. The second is another verbatim interview with the CEO/founder and fails WP:ORGIND. HighKing 16:26, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete None of the references meet the criteria for establishing notability. I am not convinced that the awards are significant but I'm happy to change my mind if shown to be wrong. For now, topic fails GNG and WP:NCORP. HighKing 16:26, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Hi HighKing, I think that the Times of Malta article does pass WP:ORGIND and this particular newspaper is the standard reference for most news originating in Malta. The EGR awards are the best known awards in the online gaming industry - this is something I know from my own 10 years working in this industry and also if you Google it there are more than 400 references from different companies to the awards - which DO indeed make them notable. I have seen that the article was deleted - I do not agree but I guess if everyone keeps doing so just let me know and I will merge the content into the Intralot article. I personally think this is wrong but I cannot do much if people just delete the article without giving me the courtesy to do it myself. Maltalinks^talk 16:44, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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