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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 11:11, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CarBay[edit]

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Fails WP:CORP and WP:WEBCRIT because this run of the mill company is not notable for anything. The website has not been the subject of non-trivial coverage in independent sources. All of the coverage cited is press relases, or short articles about parent company that mention CarBay in passing. Dennis Bratland (talk) 08:07, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep I think we should keep this page as I can see some reputable sources that clearly talk about CarBay (not directly but CarBay is being talked about when its parent Company Secured latest funding from Google Capital)

"A major part of the new funding will be used to further bolster CarDekho’s technology, R&D (research and development) and expansion within and outside of India. CarDekho has launched its services beyond Indian borders with the launch of CarBay.com in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia. Girnar Software will now be looking to consolidate its presence in India as well as other emerging economies in Asia and the Middle East."

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"Girnar Software expanded its auto portal business internationally last March with the launch of CarBay.com, which operates in 25 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, and South America."

[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.248.233.98 (talk) 06:57, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Both of the sources you have cited are primarily about Girnar Software. CarDekho is mentioned, but so are several other topics. Notability guidelines say that we are looking for coverage that is primarily about CarDekho if we want to keep an article about CarDekho. If we wanted to create a new article about Girnar Software, the other issue I'd raise with these to examples is that it is routine coverage. It's obvious that someone at Girnar wrote a press release, passed it on to these bloggers at Forbes India or CrunchBase, and they used that single source, the press release only, to rephrase it into "original" content. No actual journalism was done. The article CarBay has a dozen of these: Girnar Software gets some funding, they push out a press release, a financial blogger writes up the facts contained in the press release. It's obvious this is a run of the mill website trying to generate buzz.

We should note that your editing history for the last 15 months consists entirely of adding links to CarBay as citations, or WP:CITESPAM. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 07:22, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Fails WP:GNG and WP:CORPDEPTH. The references are either PRIMARY sources or promotions PR pieces. -- HighKing⁺⁺ 14:58, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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