Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claranet
Claranet may currently be the 18th largest web hosting company in the UK, but around a decade ago it was known not as a web hosting company but as one of the major Internet service providers (along with the likes of Freeserve and AOL) in the country and a pioneer of "free" Internet connections, and |notability does not expire. Yes, that's from my personal knowledge, and no, I haven't yet provided any sources for it, so I haven't made a bolded "keep" recommendation, but I'm suggesting it as an area in which we should look for sources before making any decision about the disposition of the article. I'm surprised that, when the nominator was reading through http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Claranet%22&num=100&hl=en&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1,ar:1,bks:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=np those 358 Google Books results (and the http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Claranet%22&num=100&hl=en&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ps 107 from Google Scholar and http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Claranet%22&num=100&hl=en&safe=active&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=lnt&sa=X&ei=ctiHTMKdCofEOKL1rMcO&ved=0CA8QpwU 805 from Google News), he didn't notice any that are more than minor references in newsletters or directories, so, unless someone else gets in first, I suppose I'll have to read through them myself
— User:Phil, 18:48, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NTEMP (Wikipedia:Notability)