Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alpha Data Parallel Systems Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Alpha_Data_Parallel_Systems

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The result was Delete

Despite relisting, only one delete !vote (plus the nomination itself) was made. The comments (and the lack of work on the article since the AfD was originally opened) do not offer evidence of notability for this company. With no keep !votes, and no dissention apparent in the comments, I feel that the consensus is to delete. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:58, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alpha Data Parallel Systems

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A nonnotable microelectronics business. The only claims for notability is that components it manufactured are used in some famous locations. Not a word why the products or company are notable by themselves. We don't write articles abut a company which manufacture elevators for Empire State Building. - Altenmann >t 16:56, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:04, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:21, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. Actually we do have an article about the company that made the Empire State Building elevators. But they're a historically significant business with a brand that's familiar to the general public. This is not, and notability is not inherited. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
re: elevators: Yep, I had this afterthought, but was lazy to change for a better analogy. - Altenmann >t 19:34, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I know a bit about this company from researching the applications of the Alpha 21064 microprocessor and its derivatives. From what I can remember, I think that the company's original product was an image processing computer that used Alpha 21066 microprocessors and Transputers for communication. I think it was this product that made the company known in certain fields. I think the computer got some coverage in publications in the fields of parallel processing, image processing, and Transputers, but I have no knowledge about the impact of the company's contributions to those fields. The article presently does not mention this. Perhaps further research should be done to determine notability instead of basing it on an incomplete article. Rilak (talk) 07:25, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. -- Pcap ping 23:37, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 22:15, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - The company is commonly called "Alpha Data", which makes the default searches come back with nothing. I did find this eetimes.eu story, and it seems like a couple of the sources in the article are reliable. Unfortunately, most only give passing mention, so it may not establish notability needed for an article. Joshua Scott (talk) 01:46, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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