Talk:George Kent Ltd

Declined 2020-11
Thank you to User:SL93 for taking the time to consider this page for creation. There were some reasons given why the draft was not accepted, including:
 * "This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). ".

Accordingly, it's been improved. There are a variety of citations to several significant pages. Grace's Guide is prominent and has an article dedicated to George Kent Limited. Note that Grace's guide is considered reliable per Reliable Sources but hasn't made it on to the main list. The ABB website has a page dedicated to the Kent brand. There are many other references too. The article sits nicely alongside Cambridge Scientific Instruments. Many other articles could benefit from pointing to this one - at the moment there's only some oblique reference via the George Kent Group redirect to Brown,_Boveri_%26_Cie, so we could change that redirect to here.

To forestall potential concerns regarding significance of demonstrable effect, George Kent produced a hugely popular knife cleaning device. A quick google suggests over 3.7M hits for this product, and a random results page from that search looks full of relevant links. The coverage is therefore arguably extensive. They made many other domestic devices also. They employed many thousands, did stuff during World War One. They also became the UK's biggest producer of Industrial Instruments, i.e. high-precision kit that is used to control e.g. chemical plants or power stations. So it would be fair to say that they have had impact.

Given all the lovely stuff above, would it be possible to assess this once again? Chumpih. (talk) 10:27, 22 March 2021 (UTC)