Wiki143:Articles for deletion/SGL Carbon

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The result was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:03, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

SGL Carbon

Nn. fails to meet WP:CORP --Wisden17 22:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. They have 617,000 Google hits and are publicly traded under the symbol "SGG". That Yahoo! Finance page should be enough to be considered outside citation of notability. --Thorne N. Melcher 23:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Commet I would still suggest a delete vote, and even with your new information the article fails to meet WP:CORP, and I fail to see existence on yahoo finance a compelling enough reason to keep. --Wisden17 00:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep in mind that the specifications on WP:CORP are guidelines and not rules, meaning that a company that can be deemed significantly notable by other means still deserves to remain in the encyclopedia. Also, considering "SGL Carbon" is a unique name, I'm sure there are plenty of sources in the 617,000 hits that could be used to justify its existence even within the guidelines of WP:CORP. --Thorne N. Melcher 00:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I think you mean WP:CORP is a guideline not a policy (as opposed to rules) and I do not treat the guidelines as 'gospel', often voting to keep pages which may not fall into those guidelines but still have other forms of notability. --Wisden17 19:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Skimming through the search results (further liminted to be just English language pages, so onyl 129K) reveals that they are a global company, got hit with anti-trust cases in the U.S., European Union and Canada in recent years, and are a significant company for the carbon industry. That industry doesn't get a lot of general press coverage (about the only industrial industry that does is the auto industry), but they seem to mee the WP:CORP guideline for press coverage. They are also included in at least one stock index, but I didn't take the time to evaluate if that index meets the WP:CORP guideline as I felt the company should be kept on other standards. GRBerry 16:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I added this page in support of the portion on the History of graphite (for Nuclear Graphite, SGL crabon is the child company of several companies that were incolved in the development of materials and the field. I would like to develop this additionally to show the history of this company and how it relates to the various graded of graphite used in nuclear reactors in the past. Mark 15:34, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete per nom. This is not an article, its one sentence with a stub tag. Since listed, nothing has been done to improve with quality, notability, and verification, yet still fails CORP. And adding a few section headers in 2 days isnt an improvement. SynergeticMaggot 04:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• keep Meets WP:CORP, part of the German MDAX index. Mark 08:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• comment I have done some furhter development as well. Mark 08:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Can you provide a link to support this, as the yahoo entry says that it is not listed in any indicies. --Wisden17 07:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Try [[1]], not sure how static it is. Mark 16:43, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Based on this link I would say article now meets WP:CORP, hence I change my opinion to that of Keeping the article. --Wisden17 23:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Notable enough.--Runcorn 16:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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