Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nokian Capacitors (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. No consensus that any of this needs merging. Complete consensus this is not a notable company. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:00, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Nokian Capacitors
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I’m unsure that this company meets WP:NCORP. It survived AfD in 2006 but hasn’t really developed much since then. The company merged in 2008 and the sources suggested on the talk page that got it through AfD in 2006 don’t look very substantial to me. Searching of course produces lots of hits for irrelevant Nokia-related items. Overall it looks pretty borderline to me. Mccapra (talk) 13:00, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Possibly merge to GE Renewable Energy. According to the Finnish Wikipedia article, this company is now part of General Electric's Grid Solutions which itself is a GE Renewable Energy business according to their website. The main article sadly does not mention Grid Solutions. --Pudeo (talk) 16:27, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment a merge would be good but the challenge is the business has been bought and sold so many times. I can’t see how you’d get it into GE Renewable Energy. However I could merge it into the ‘Other operations’ of Areva if that seems acceptable? Mccapra (talk) 17:46, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, GE Renewable Energy has aquired all assets of this Finnish company. So it would probably warrant one passage in the GE Renewable Energy article if it had a subsection for Grid Solutions, like it has for Wind and Hydro. Their website lists all their divisions. --Pudeo (talk) 20:48, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * My concern is Nokia Capacitors was bought by Areca, which was then bought by Alstom, parts of which were later bought by GE. By this time the capacitors business had ‘disappeared’ I think. The first entity it went into (was acquired by) was Areva. If I merge it into there it then just becomes part of the onward flow of acquisitions.

Mccapra (talk) 04:38, 6 May 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sulfurboy (talk) 16:08, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I don't believe it passes WP:NCORP. Mbdfar (talk) 03:11, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as a failure of NCORP. If there isn't a substantial amount of sourcing, it shouldn't be merged to Areva. IMO it would constitute undue weight, since Areva is a massive multi-national that owns or has owned numerous companies, and there's no indication that Nokian Capacitors is any more important than any other subsidiary. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 23:34, 13 May 2020 (UTC)


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