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Notability of Cvent

If you can find verifiable, reliable sources which substantiate the notability according to Wikipedia criteria for companies and organizations, please start the article at this page in your own user space: User:Vt4me/Cvent. Once you feel it meets the criteria, I will reviewe it, and if appropriate ask for additional user/admin review, before unprotecting the article and transferring your edits to the main space. Does this sound like a fair plan? - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 18:53, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Do you need the content from the old page, or would you just like to start from scratch? - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 20:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Cool beans. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 15:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Review of User:Vt4me/Cvent

One of the main criteria is verifiability by use of non-trivial mentions in reliable sources. You have sources which discuss online meeting planning and public relations references, which are suspect and not generally relied upon as their content is usually the product of promotional activities by the subjects themselves or their agents. The ones specifically related to Cvent are questionable. Here's why:

1. You supported the following statement: "In 2005, the Washington Business Journal ranked Cvent the largest event planning company in the Washington, D.C., metro area." with this, a press release and not really genuine journalism.
2. You supported the following statement: "Cvent was the first online registration software provider to build and market audience profiling and one-to-one marketing strategies." with this reference. The mention appears to be trivial, that is, only a mention of it in terms of its features, and not really conferring notability.
3. You supported the following statement: "At the end of 2007, over 10,000 event and marketing professionals used Cvent software to plan over 100,000 events each year." with this and this. I'm uncertain that the Communications News online magazine addresses the notability of the subject, and this resource is not used for any other subject on Wikipedia. Similarly, the IssuesWire reference is a press release, and not really genuine reporting.

All other links either address facts about Cvent that do not affirm its notability, or are about the industry of online meeting planning, and not Cvent itself. The tone is therefore extremely biased, that is, favorable towards the subject, with an advertising/marketing tone not conducive to an online encyclopedia.

I recommend that you read Wikipedia:Business FAQ to understand why you may not be able to publish this. If you press forward with this copy, I am certain that it will be tagged for speedy deletion as {{G11}}, blatant advertising. If you push forward with it, it may wind up at Wikipedia:"Articles for deletion, a process which I highly suspect would result in deletion. This is my sincere review. Please feel free to ask me anything. Cheers! - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 15:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)