Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NewCo


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Doczilla @SUPERHEROLOGIST 03:16, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

NewCo

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Non-notable abbreviation, and the list of "Examples" seems to have no relevance whatsoever Amisom (talk) 09:34, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:46, 13 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep. I happened across this article when I was trying to figure out what Kyndryl meant (it's bad don't bother). And saw that it was named NewCo for a bit. Re-reading NewCo, it feels like it should be improved and not deleted. The examples are all purported to be ones that originally were named "NewCo" before taking on their current names. Should be better referenced but spot-checking a few all showed it to be true, so that's the relevance. In terms of how notable the name itself is, doing a quick JSTOR search, I find the term is used and mentioned in multiple academic papers about businesses and law: UNITED STATES v. WIDGET CO., NEWCO, AND PATENT AGGREGATOR PLUS LLC: A HYPOTHETICAL CLOSING ARGUMENT, Antitrust Law Journal Vol. 79, No. 2 (2014), pp. 527-555 (29 pages); Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger, Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 3 (September 2010), pp. 397-438 (42 pages): Although we lack the data to investigate this possibility, perhaps the positive overtones offered by the temporary name, Newco, contributed to the forward movement of the identity change process and, ultimately, the merger itself.; All buyouts are not the same: It can be different in England, Business Law Today Vol. 9, No. 4 (March/April 2000), pp. 16-20 (5 pages): In a buyout transaction, it is necessary to incorporate and capitalize a special-purpose vehicle (let's call it "Newco"); and Consolidated Gold Fields in Australia: The Rise and Decline of a British Mining House, 1926–1998, pp. 316-317: to bid for Consolidated Gold Fields and establish a ‘newco’ in the United Kingdom. Skynxnex (talk) 15:12, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * But the fact that a term "is used" doesn't make it notable. See WP:NOT. The notability guideline requires multiple sources that discuss the term itself "directy and in detail". You can't possibly claim that "let's call it Newco" is a detailed discussion of the term Newco. Amisom (talk) 15:25, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * "Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger" has a total of 105 instances of the term "NewCo" and heavily talks about the meaning of it for the company that was case studied A pivotal event occurred in a meeting of the two executive teams when Community's CEO unexpectedly offered "Newco" as a temporary, generic label for the imagined future organization and As researchers, we recognized that the emergence of Newco was likely to be important, so we began to explicitly track the development of Newco and its influence in the participant observer's field notes. We eventually developed the secondorder term for the concept of Newco as a "transitional identity," as two short snippets. It also, seems to me, that NewCo is both used enough, researched enough, and has enough examples so WP:NOT doesn't apply (or, it does but it matches its positive examples). Looking at bit more, I came across Achieving breakthrough growth: from idea to execution, Ivey Business Journal, January/February 2006, which talks in a lot of detail about the non-UK meaning of NewCo: “Distinct but linked” means that the new business, or “NewCo,” is a fundamentally different organization, but is still not isolated from the core business or “CoreCo.”. So, many passing mentions/usages and multiple significant discussions about the term and concept. Skynxnex (talk) 16:13, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - I think we should keep this and find better sources. A number of online dictionaries and sites have this such as This and also have found this article. Samanthany (talk) 01:15, 18 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep - I agree that NewCo can be improved further to meet encyclopedic standards: I did make a start in adding the Rangers FC case as a notable use in relation to the transferring of assets from an insolvent company, but more can be done. -- Minoa (talk) 17:34, 18 June 2022 (UTC)


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