Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colfax Corporation


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The result was   keep. and improve  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 04:13, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Colfax Corporation

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Delete, WP:UNDUE to the closure of a plant, seems to be a WP:COATRACK that ultimately fails WP:GNG Hell In A Bucket (talk) 04:15, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * delete no significant third party coverage about the subject presented in article nor found via search. fails N and WP:CORP -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  05:28, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * keep - sources are significant, third party coverage about the subject. It is a very specific topic, welding, therefore sources are only to be found on welding-related sources. The company is billion turnover one, with 10 000 employees worldwide. Alone this fact is signifcant enough. I added more third part sources for increasing the significance, if this is the measurement of significance ... --Pesen S Trompet (talk) 08:07, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. A large, NYSE-traded company.  WP:LISTED instructs: "notability is not automatic" for such companies, but "sufficient independent sources almost always exist for such companies, so that notability can be established using the primary criterion discussed above. . . . Editors coming across an article on such a company without such references are encouraged to search (or request that others search) prior to nominating for deletion, given the very high likelihood that a publicly traded company is actually notable according to the primary criterion."  A quick look at GNews and HighBeam  shows that this is the case here.  Among other things, Colfax recently bought Charter International and there's plenty of coverage of the transaction, including one focusing on Colfax's "mysterious past".  One possibility might be to merge the existing Charter International article into this article. --Arxiloxos (talk) 15:29, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Add: Here are more solid sources about Colfax: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph.--Arxiloxos (talk) 18:35, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the constructive suggestions. Some of the information was already briefed, some of it I briefly included. Best, --Pesen S Trompet (talk) 22:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:10, 11 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep - Meets WP:CORPDEPTH. Searches yield many press releases about this company, however, some news sources include:, , (more on page 2), , . Northamerica1000(talk) 20:11, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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