- 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 keep. I see a rough consensus here to Keep this article. What flaws it has can be resolved through editing the article. Liz Read! Talk! 23:21, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
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Fails WP:NCORP, No Reliable Sources., The Sources that presented in the article are unreliable. Article needs Reliable Sources and Seconday Sources. Untamed1910 (talk) 22:46, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies and Malta. Shellwood (talk) 00:42, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- Keep — The topic appears to meet Wikipedia’s notability guidelines. There are reliable and independent sources available or can be added that discuss Alkagesta. The article can be improved with citations from books, academic papers, and independent media. Deletion is unnecessary when the article can be improved. JosefBrine (talk) 09:24, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- Nope, Sources were press releases and There is no independent coverage of the company to establish its notability. Untamed1910 (talk) 03:56, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
Delete: The sources presented in the article are entirely press releases, some of which explicitly state "sponsored content", and read as promotional. There is no independent coverage of the company to establish its notability.-- Reconrabbit 13:32, 29 October 2025 (UTC)- Changing my position to keep considering contemporary coverage. -- Reconrabbit 21:28, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
- Keep I see that specific, narrow industry coverage provides sufficient sourcing; the company’s billion-dollar trading volume and global activity may have generated additional notable coverage in regional press elsewhere. Never-ending string (talk) 13:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
- Keep Enough sources and I found a few through google linking the company to oil smuggling and corruption. Agnieszka653 (talk) 00:46, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- This is definitely AI-generated citations by User:JosefBrine. Untamed1910 (talk) 20:54, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- All of the added citations, even if they were found by LLM, were legitimate and added information not present in the article as it is right now, which seems to have unrelated promotional tone issues. Ex: This MSN article that you removed describes the connection between Alkagesta and Adnan Ahmadzada, who was arrested last month. If that's not enough to establish notability, at the very least this article to redirect to Ahmadzada, who is the subject of a lot of press right now. -- Reconrabbit 21:28, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
- Keep per above CabinetCavers (talk) 14:27, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- All of the added citations, even if they were found by LLM, were legitimate and added information not present in the article as it is right now, which seems to have unrelated promotional tone issues. Ex: This MSN article that you removed describes the connection between Alkagesta and Adnan Ahmadzada, who was arrested last month. If that's not enough to establish notability, at the very least this article to redirect to Ahmadzada, who is the subject of a lot of press right now. -- Reconrabbit 21:28, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
- This is definitely AI-generated citations by User:JosefBrine. Untamed1910 (talk) 20:54, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- Delete This is an article that failed AfC multiple times as a whitewash/puff piece. The extant sources are almost all niche trade pubs with limited to no wide notability. Further, there appear to be probable COI/PE issues with the editor who created the page...compounding notability problems with biased writing. Hiobazard (talk/contribs) 15:51, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:39, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
- Keep meets WP:NCORP via stable continuing coverage of its activities connected to sophisticated operations, CEO's possible arrest in 2025 and the firm’s role in oil smuggling/sanction avoiding. It's also a big part of Malta economy and was widely described by regional news-outlets. --Imtisig (talk) 10:40, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
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