Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SGS S.A.


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) — ☮ JAaron95  Talk  05:56, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

SGS S.A.

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This seems to be a fairly large company, but by Wikipedia standards "large" does not guarantee "notable". Firstly, the sources referenced in the article are: an annual list of result;, a promotional web page of another company (described in the article as one of sgs's competitors) not mentioning sgs at all; a court judgement in which sgs is mentioned because of dealings with the person who was the subject of that judgement; a dead link; two apparently different references which turn out to both be the same thing, namely a tribunal judgement in a case which sgs brought; a document on a personal web site. Secondly, a Google search for information about the company produces, on its first page: four pages on sgs's own websites; two pages on bloomberg, one at markets.ft.com, one at Google, and one at Reuters, all merely providing business statistics; the Wikipedia article. I have checked the next couple of pages of hits, and they are no better. (A PROD was removed by an IP editor who in another post has stated that he or she is working for sgs.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:23, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. &mdash;&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·E·C) 04:49, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions. &mdash;&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·E·C) 04:49, 22 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. This is indeed the largest company of this kind worldwide, and as could be expected, there is quite a bit of media coverage of it, conferring notability. Just off the top of Google News: Last week's article about an acquisition, calling SGS "the world's number one in inspection and certification" (Tribune de Genève), January's article about annual results (Le Temps), and an article from last November about a possible change of headquarters (Tribune).  Sandstein   08:50, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep I can bury you under sources which make this company pass WP:CORPDEPTH; see SGS expands Corescan service in North America; SGS boosts UK food testing capabilities and five related articles; SGS gets Argentina approval for genetically modified crop field studies; Le Genevois SGS a vu son bénéfice nettement reculer; SGS: en hausse à Zurich, le groupe défend ses marges; how many do you want? I suggets you check your search engine again, it might work now, James. Kraxler (talk) 01:54, 28 August 2015 (UTC)


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