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The result was delete. Barkeep49 ( talk) 03:11, 2 December 2020 (UTC) reply

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Fails WP:NCORP. scope_creep ^Talk 11:27, 9 November 2020 (UTC) reply

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*Keep The subject is notable in Nigeria, also it also cite at least three reliable source independent of the subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lynndonald ( talk • contribs) 06:09, 12 November 2020 (UTC) Checkuser block. scope_creep ^Talk 00:32, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

• Comment Lets looks at the references:

* Gokada is looking to be more than a motorcycle on-demand company Startups section. According to (former) Gokada CEO, Deji Oduntan, “We haven’t even started yet. Gokada is going to be literally all over Lagos.” Fails WP:ORGIND.

* Gokada, first on-demand motorcycle hailing app launches in Lagos Fails WP:CORPDEPTH. standard notices, brief announcements, and routine coverage, such as, of a product or a product line launch, sale, change, or discontinuance,

* Okada-On-Demand: A Gokada Review Dead link.

* Malware page WP:SIRS

* Crédit Afrique MfB seals partnership deal with Gokada Rides Fails WP:CORPDEPTH, WP:ORGIND WP:SIRS. Announcement of partnership.

* Two of Africa's leading boda-hailing startups are backed by same investor Fails WP:ORGIND

* [1] Dead link

* Trend hunter: Digital okadas get Lagos out of a jam Routine announcement, reprint. Fails WP:CORPDEPTH.

Assuming AGF, the rest of the references are the same. It is small private company, a startup, a parcel delivery service and is entirely generic. Fails WP:NCORP, specifically WP:CORPDEPTH, WP:ORGIND. scope_creep ^Talk 08:47, 14 November 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete I agree with the analysis posted above by scope_creep. None of the references meet the criteria for establishing notability and clearly Lynndonald above has misinterpreted what is meant by a source being "independent of the subject" which doesn't just mean that the topic organizations is functionally independent from the publisher, but also that the source contains "Independent Content" as per WP:ORGIND. Topic fails GNG/ WP:NCORP. HighKing ⁺⁺ 18:33, 23 November 2020 (UTC) reply
• Keep: I don't think that WP:ORGIND applies very well here. A couple of these sources are junk, sure, but is coverage "routine" just because a newspaper routinely covers news? A 5.3 million Series A is fairly respectable (this is not just a couple guys in a garage). jp× g 20:53, 28 November 2020 (UTC) reply

There is no link between funding and notability. scope_creep ^Talk 00:17, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

It's respectable. Funding does not directly establish notability, but indicates that a business is doing lots of stuff. Doing lots of stuff is notorious for conferring notability... jp× g 17:26, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply

• Keep. Coverage seems sufficiently nontrivial. Benjamin ( talk) 03:54, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply

How can the coverage nontrivial when they are is no references. You have only done 21 Afd's. I suggest you go and read WP:NCORP as you have obviusly not read it. scope_creep ^Talk 09:55, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Can you articulate "they are is no references" better? I see 15 references in the article. I agree most of them do not help the article meet NCORP. I only see one of the current references helping towards NCORP, which is "Confusion Rocks Gokada, Lagos’s Modern Okada" from the Nigerian Tribune. There is also a reference not currently in the article which I think would go towards NCORP, [2]. However, I don't think these two sources get it over the line, another of like quality would. Nonetheless I don't understand the comment. (nor the personalization). 78.26 _{( spin me / revolutions)} 14:49, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi @ 78.26: I've already went through them. I never noticed. The references [3] states:

The murder devasted the company, Nikhil Goel, Gokada’s COO and President told TechCabal. So it is an interview style article and fail WP:ORGIND. It also a dependent source, as the company is providing the information, not the journalist not going out and finding for themselves. So it fails WP:SIRS as well. scope_creep ^Talk 16:20, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Yeah, you are correct, although I believe the article is not 100% based upon interview because of the first three paragraphs, and some interspersed information. It isn't a strong source, so I'd say we have 1.5 sources. Too bad we don't have more like what you comment on below, we need more coverage of African topics, and I think this company had a brief but significant impact on Nigeria's capitol, and may so again if regulations/situations change. 78.26 _{( spin me / revolutions)} 16:47, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply

• Comment "Confusion Rocks Gokada, Lagos’s Modern Okada" from the Nigerian Tribune is a really decent secondary source that is well written, indepth and qualifies as WP:SIGCOV. However a single source in not sufficing to establish notability. scope_creep ^Talk 16:25, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply
• Comment @ 78.26: I don't think relying on a biking company is necessarily the best way of creating articles for consumption. The main problem is finding what to do. The cultural depth and variety there in Africa is vast and mysterious for the most part, so there is plenty of history, culture, whatnot and so on, there to make millions of articles on WP. The problem for me is identifying what to translate. If somebody could give two dozen articles that were very large and obscure/byzantine in nature, I could make a effort to get them translated professionally. But such a thing doesn't seem to be done. As far as I know there is no wikiproject on it. scope_creep ^Talk 17:50, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete The sources supporting the article are the usual WP:REFBOMBing of poor sources that are easy for companies to obtain. The great majority of these are regurgitated press releases or the like and the remainder are WP:MILL coverage of normal transactions. What coverage is significant is not independent or reliable and vice-versa. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 21:41, 1 December 2020 (UTC) reply

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