Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Successories
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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was no consensus. Doczilla Ohhhhhh, no! 18:46, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
Successories
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This company does not meet notability guidelines for businesses. A search for new sources showed a lack in WP:SIGCOV. S1mply.dogmom (talk) 23:11, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Companies, Products, Websites, and Florida. S1mply.dogmom (talk) 23:11, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: given the stricter sourcing standards for NCORP compared to other topic areas that fall under GNG, that this has been tagged as overly reliant on primary and self-published sources since 2010 may be of note. (No opinion as to whether anything better exists.) WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 23:25, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
- Keep. Significant independent coverage exists across multiple reliable sources: a full editorial profile in NBC News/Entrepreneur.com (2013), a Quartz article crediting Successories with originating the demotivational poster internet meme format, a TIME magazine piece on the cultural parody it inspired, a WGN-TV news segment (2024), and a full entry in the International Directory of Company Histories. The company was also publicly traded on NASDAQ (ticker: SCES). Proposed sourced edits addressing these points have been posted on the article Talk page. Disclosing COI as a Successories employee. NeroVincent (talk) 12:55, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: The Quartz article appears to be a dead link. The NBC News article is an interview with the former CEO. Yahoo Finance is an aggregator and the article is a press release. Encyclopedia.com is also an aggregator so more insight into the original publisher is needed. The company's website is used several times in your request, as well as Know Your Meme and Today I Found Out - neither of which I would consider "reliable". Kusack Crystal would also be a primary source as well in this case, if I'm not mistaken. S1mply.dogmom (talk) 17:25, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BhikhariInformer 📮 (Ping me or else I won't see it) 01:09, 4 June 2026 (UTC) - Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BhikhariInformer 📮 (Ping me or else I won't see it) 03:54, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
- Merge to Motivational posters. Not enough WP:SIGCOV to meet WP:CORPDEPTH and most of the sources in this article are either not independent or unreliable (even blacklisted), but the Quartz article seems fine and there are other sources which talk about the product more than the company. Orange sticker (talk) 09:56, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.