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It represents the successful establishment of several innovative mobile software startup companies based in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, UK. Aldiscon, Apion, Aepona, Anam, Ammeon, Accuris Networks and Altion are just a handful of such Irish companies (in fact, all of these specific
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I put up a PROD notice on notability which was removed with a comment that the article does assert notability (but no discussion and no additional text or references added). The company appears to have been acquired back in the mid-90's, and I fail to see what was notable about the company before
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I provided explations in my edit summaries. First when you put on the prod tag you claimed that the article did not assert notability. If "Aldiscon is historically significant to the mobile sector in two major aspects" is not an assertion of notability then what is? That assertion on its own is
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Phil, you are incorrect to remove the CS7 tag without justifying notability. Please stop. Please explain and provide references to the claims within the article. I have read the article, and your edit note, and neither makes clearer the claims to notability. Your edit summary refers to an
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then. The article appears to be trying to asserting notability through it's relationships with other companies, or with the company that acquired it, etc, but this does not confer notability on this company. The article on the acquiring company
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unreferenced claim within the article and is clearly not enough to assert notability. As to the claims within the article, it makes two claims. Both claims are pretty unclear and unspecific, and most importantly, without reference. The first:
443:- What does this actually mean? Is Aldiscon claiming to be the first independent software company to supply software to a global mobile network? There are no references that I can find to back this up. Perhaps you can provide a reference? 382:
enough to get past an A7 speedy deletion, which is why I've removed the tag again, and I removed the prod tag because there is a reference to back up the claim to notability. If you are so keen to get this deleted then take it to
450:- is the article claiming that this company is notable because the people involved in Aldiscon went on to form other companies? In my view, this goes to the notability of the people involved, not the company. 209: 312: 367:@Phil, please stop removing the deletion notices until you have demonstrated why Aldiscon is notable. Twice now, you've removed deletion notices without explanation. -- 168: 248: 235: 31: 506: 455:
In short, I fail to see why you are asserting that this company is notable. Please explain. I'll take your advice and list this in an AFD also. --
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successful introduction of major independent software suppliers to the technology of global mobile networks
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You don't seem to understand the meaning of the word "assert". Please look it up in a dictionary.
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includes a one-liner note, which to me, speaks to the relative notability of this company. --
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companies were started by the original Aldiscon founders)
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