Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/McClarin Plastics, Inc.


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 13:31, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

McClarin Plastics, Inc.

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No evidence this company is notable and has received nothing more than passing mentions or standard run of the mill coverage. Praxidicae (talk) 14:16, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable, feels like a PR piece. Skirts89 (talk) 15:36, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:31, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Perhaps the editors who !voted "delete" (or other editors) would care to comment whether the sources unearthed by make this meet NCORP or not.
 * Delete - What is sad is that most manufacturing companies will not receive the coverage required to meet notability guidelines. Manufacturing is boring to the main stream media. Being that this company is pretty old, I even did a search through Newspapers.com and found nothing other than routine announcements. Fails WP:NCORP and WP:CORPDEPTH. --CNMall41 (talk) 20:58, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment AfD is not about the quality of the article - this article could no doubt be improved, but that does not impact on whether the company is notable or not. I find a small amount of coverage in mainstream media outside its local regions - an article about a plant closing in Alabama, which mentions the other states which have plants - and also that there is one in China (reported in the Birmingham Business Journal - in Alabama, but outside the town where the plant was), and 4 paragraphs in an article in the Los Angeles Times about employment as an issue in the 2004 presidential election . Books or journals about plastics are the kind of publication I'd expect to find coverage in, rather than mainstream media. I can see that it is mentioned in a 1974 book called Reinforced plastics: theory and practice, but as it's a snippet view only, I can't see how much is about it, or if it's just named , and there's an entry in the Modern Plastics Encyclopedia Issue, 1960 , though that may be directory-like .... The journal Plastics Technology. Nov 95, Vol. 41 Issue 11, p17. has an article 'Thermoforming advances boost quality, cut costs': "Features several developments in the field of thermoforming highlighted at the 1995 SPE Thermoforming Conference. Development of a CAD/CAM programming of five-axis CNC trimmers/routers by McClarin Plastics Inc." (two other companies are mentioned, but McLarin would have at least 1/3 of a page); Plastics Technology. Mar 2003, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p80 has an article about "Hanover, Pennsylvania-based custom thermoformer McClarin Plastics Inc. Customers of McClarin; Expansion of the company into assembly and painting services; Emphasis of the company on teamwork, training and innovation; Functions of three plants operated by the company."; Industry Week/IW. Aug2008, Vol. 257 Issue 8, p15 has an article which "offers information on the cooperative lean certification training implemented by McClarin Plastics Inc. in the U.S. The company has 20 employees participating in the training along with its 25 suppliers and customers. The objective of the training is to lessen waste, human effort and manufacturing space and time."; Reinforced Plastics. Sep2017, Vol. 61 Issue 5, p257 has an article "McClarin acquires composites company." I don't know whether that is enough to meet WP:NCORP - happy to include the refs in the article if it is. RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:37, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 15:09, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep It appears that the company has been covered in other publications. In addition to ’s comment and links I found the following articles covering the company: and  With additional research, the company may have enough independent sources reporting on it to meet the WP:NCORP guidelines. I would suggest continuing to research this avenue before deleting the article. Quorum816 (talk) 20:24, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * As with the references supplied by RebeccaGreen, these are routine announcements. If they counted for notability, every company would qualify for Wikipedia. --CNMall41 (talk) 20:39, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

So unfortunately for McLarin, it looks like there is only one source that would pass all 5 components of "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject" - and even that source only gives information about a change in the type of jobs at the factory, but no change in wages, no actual info about the products or manufacturing processes. So, despite finding these sources, I am going to have to vote Delete! RebeccaGreen (talk) 15:23, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete As I didn't vote before, I thought I'd come back and review the sources I found. As I have been unable to read the articles in the plastics journals, I am basing my judgements on the summaries in the databases, and not assuming that there is commentary or independent analysis in articles which sound like they could just be based on company PR.


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