Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Spirit of Eagle (talk) 04:26, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries

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Fails GNG. This unreferenced and unsourced article is about a minor trade association in Sweden and written in very promotional vernacular. A thorough search fails to find the scope of RS to redeem it. DOCUMENT ★  ERROR  03:13, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Lousy article as it is now (though I removed some of the worst promotional language), but not without relevance. It's a fairly major trade association from a Swedish perspective and has been around since 1896. I imagine pretty much all relevant sources would be in Swedish, and refer either to "Verkstadsföreningen" (as it was called from 1896 to 1992), "Föreningen Sveriges Verkstadsindustrier" (as it was called from 1992 to 2002) or "Teknikföretagen" (as it's called now) (source: National Archives of Sweden). There seems to be a number of books on the subject, e.g. Verkstadsföreningen – 1896–1945 by Georg Styrman (1946), Arbetsgivarpolitik under full sysselsättning – en ekonomisk-historisk studie av Verkstadsföreningen by Torbjörn Lundqvist, economic historian (2010). A quick search in a Swedish news archive gives thousands of hits (including some false hits, but they seem to be a minority). /Julle (talk) 05:17, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * , you seem to  be well  informed. As a Swedish native can you  not  add some sources to  the article? --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:06, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Well informed and well informed. I work in tech in Sweden, so of course I'm aware of them, but there are probably tens of thousands who know more about this subject than I do, and I don't have easy access to the books written on the subject. I've added a brief paragraph on the history of the association and written the National Swedish Archive to ask if there's really no better way to link to their information since they restructed their website. /Julle (talk) 10:28, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. see https://books.google.com/books?id=M0XfiEofjLAC&pg=PA308, largest member organization of Svenskt Näringsliv, organizes companies with 316,000 employees. Clean-up yes, but definatly notable. --Soman (talk) 10:13, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Julle and Soman. Per Julle's note, for sources try also:
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 * Keep. This is a major trade and industrial organization which is clearly notable. Tomas e (talk) 13:11, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
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