Talk:TXI

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major products of the state — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apinkerton (talk • contribs) 15:53, 5 October 2011‎

Old version of this article
The last edit of the old version is dated November 1, 2013. It can be found [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TXI&oldid=579714089 here]. The old version used to be named Texas Industries. In November 2013, a new article was created called Texas Industries Inc. The current article, TXI, has the page histories of both articles together in one place.

Please merge content as appropriate. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  06:32, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Notability
During the 1960s-1970s Texas Industries and its subsidiary Chaparral Steel (now part of Gerdau) were major players in Texas. At one time, Texas Industries was the largest cement company in the state. Whether this article stays or goes, the company itself meets WP:Notability.

Obviously, my saying so here without references doesn't mean anything in Wikipedia terms. If the article goes away by way of PROD, that's fine. If it goes to a deletion discussion, please ping me so I can interrupt my other Wiki activities to get the article beefed up. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  04:07, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Citation for claim that the company was the largest cement maker in Texas in or about 1993:

Of the top ten results in a Google Books search for "Chaparral Steel", 4 books gave significant coverage of the company. Here are two of them:
 * 9 additional references in this book's bibliography relate directly to Chaparral Steel.
 * 9 additional references in this book's bibliography relate directly to Chaparral Steel.


 * Note that Chaparral Steel was spun off of TXI in 2005. It is unclear if the Lipshitz book studied the company while it was part of TXI or not.
 * Note that Chaparral Steel was spun off of TXI in 2005. It is unclear if the Lipshitz book studied the company while it was part of TXI or not.

Fortune 500 list
While being on the Fortune 500 list back when you could get on the list with only $614M in annual revenue (about $965M in 2013 dollars) is not an sure-fire indicator of notability, it is strongly suggestive that if I had access to newspapers, books, etc. from the pre-Internet age I could find WP:SIGCOV. Therefore, I am removing the proposed deletion. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  23:07, 1 January 2014 (UTC)