Deletion of Circle (company)

Comment: per . The sources discussed above by Cunard and others could be the basis of an article that actually describes the company and what it does. But what we have now appears to be purely a vehicle for investment promotion.  Look what a good value this company is! Famous people poured money into it! Feh
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT)

Comment: Looks  per normal AfD
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Too soon (WP:TOOSOON)

Comment: a clear, and easy to see, passing of  and  per the numerous significant writeups in independent and reliable sources.   All discussion of changing policies should be done elsewhere
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:CORP)

Comment: or redirect to Jeremy Allaire. The references right now are all due to their fundraising activities. Per , this is , at least
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS||WP:TOOSOON)

Comment: Mainly because I found plenty more sources which show that coverage isn't restricted to the two rounds of funding that all the current RS present in the article stem from: e.g. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/ex-jpmorgan-executive-to-join-circle-a-digital-currency-start-up/ Dec 14 http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/29/bitbeat-allaires-circle-releases-bitcoin-wallet/ Sep 14 http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/31/the-biggest-bitcoin-investment-so-far-circle-raises-9-million/ Oct 13. If these aren't sufficient to meet  then we need to delete hundreds of thousands of articles. While I understand the sentiment of the !deletes with regards to discouraging promotional editing, the article has been cleaned up and this isn't the place for argue for exceptions from well-established guidelines. Deleting articles purely because of them being the result of PE has never been policy and for good reason as we'd be spiting ourselves. There are plenty of good sources available which could be used to write a neutral and informative article
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:CORP)