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Sources are not transferable or attributable between related parties. Sources that describe only a specific topic related to an organization should not be regarded as providing significant coverage of that organization. Therefore, for example, an article on a product recall or a biography of a CEO is
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The depth of coverage of the subject by the source must be considered. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject is not sufficient to establish notability. Deep or significant coverage provides an overview, description, commentary, survey, study, discussion, analysis, or evaluation of the product,
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An organization is not notable merely because a notable person or event was associated with it. A corporation is not notable merely because it owns notable subsidiaries. The organization or corporation itself must have been discussed in reliable independent sources for it to be considered notable.
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in some depth the treatment of the employees or major changes in leadership instead of just listing the fact that the corporation employs 500 people or mentioning that John Smith was appointed as the new CEO. Further, the significance is not determined by the reputation of the source. For example, a
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Reliable sources, generally, are third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. The best sources have a professional structure in place for checking or analyzing facts, legal issues, evidence, and arguments. The greater the degree of scrutiny given to these issues,
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When evaluating the notability of organizations or products, please consider whether they have had any significant or demonstrable effects on culture, society, entertainment, athletics, economies, history, literature, science, or education. Large organizations and their products are likely to have
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Product, event, and restaurant reviews (i.e. where author describes personal opinions and experiences) must be handled with great care and diligence. Some types of reviews have a longer history and established traditions (e.g. restaurants, wine, books, movies), while other (e.g. new tech gadgets,
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that provide evidence of notability. However, smaller organizations and their products can be notable, just as individuals can be notable. Arbitrary standards should not be used to create a bias favoring larger organizations or their products, though articles about very small "garage" or local
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provides an author's own thinking based on primary sources, generally at least one step removed from an event. It contains an author's analysis, evaluation, interpretation, or synthesis of the facts, evidence, concepts, and ideas taken from primary sources. Secondary sources are not necessarily
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of the content that governs. A collection of multiple trivial sources does not become significant. Views, hits, likes, shares, etc. have no bearing on establishing whether the coverage is significant. Similarly, arbitrary statistics and numbers (such as number of employees, amount of revenue or
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will have a number of significant sources discussing its (alleged) illegal conduct. Sources that primarily discuss purely such conduct cannot be used to establish an organization's notability under this guideline. However, the organization may still be notable, in whole or in part due to such
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in the U.S. does not necessarily mean that the religious organization that owns or meets in the building is notable. However, it is possible that both the building and the institution are notable independently from each other – in which case, a combined article about the institution and the
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include reviews where the reviewed product is provided free of charge to the author. Often, sponsored nature of a review is not disclosed and not immediately apparent. In particular, a strong indication of a sponsored or other relationship is a review that is excessively positive or negative.
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and other comparable international stock exchanges, are inherently notable. Consensus has been that notability is not automatic in this (or any other) case. However, sufficient independent sources almost always exist for such companies, so that notability can be established using the primary
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Some commercial organizations meet Knowledge (XXG) notability guidelines but care must be taken in determining whether they are truly notable and whether the article is an attempt to use Knowledge (XXG) for free advertising. Knowledge (XXG) editors should not create articles on commercial
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The court filing is significant and reliable (in that the court record is a verified account of a legal action being taken) – but not secondary (court filings are primary sources) or independent (they are written by the parties to the legal action, which have a vested interest in the
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This works the other way as well. An organization may be notable, but individual members (or groups of members) do not "inherit" notability due to their membership. A corporation may be notable, but its subsidiaries do not "inherit" notability from being owned by the corporation.
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of an article about the parent organization. If the parent article grows to the point where information needs to be split off to a new article, remember that when you split off an article about a local chapter, the local chapter itself must comply with Knowledge (XXG)'s
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The organization's longevity, size of membership, major achievements, prominent scandals, or other factors specific to the organization should be considered to the extent that these factors have been reported by independent sources. This list is not exhaustive and not
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Individual chapters, divisions, departments, and other sub-units of notable organizations are only rarely notable enough to warrant a separate article. Information on chapters and affiliates should normally be merged into the article about the parent organization.
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The existence of multiple significant independent sources needs to be demonstrated. Hypothetical sources (e.g. "the company is big/old/important so there must be more sources, I just don't have/can't find them") do not count towards the notability requirement.
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All universities, colleges and schools, including high schools, middle schools, primary (elementary) schools, and schools that only provide a support to mainstream education must either satisfy the notability guidelines for organizations (i.e., this page),
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Although an organization that fails to meet the criteria of this guideline should not have a separate article, information about the organization may nevertheless be included in other ways in Knowledge (XXG) provided that certain conditions are met.
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criterion discussed above. Examples of such sources include independent press coverage and analyst reports. Accordingly, article authors should make sure to seek out such coverage and add references to such articles to properly establish notability.
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inclusion in collections that have indiscriminate inclusion criteria (i.e. attempt to include every existing item instead of selecting the best, most notable examples), such as databases, archives, directories, dictionaries, bibliographies, certain
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For organizations local to a city, town, or county, content conforming to the above criteria may be added to articles for that locale. For example, a business that is significant to the history or economy of a small town might be described in the
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with a stronger emphasis on quality of the sources to prevent gaming of the rules by marketing and public relations professionals. The guideline, among other things, is meant to address some of the common issues with abusing Knowledge (XXG) for
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is original material that is close to an event, and is often an account written by people who are directly involved. Primary sources cannot be used to establish notability. In a business setting, frequently encountered primary sources include:
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This guideline does not apply to transport infrastructure such as railway lines and stations, airports, and toll roads, even when the company running the installation has that task as its single purpose. Other notability guidelines such as
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A feature story is usually a longer article where the writer has researched and interviewed to tell a factual story about a person, place, event, idea, or issue. Features are not opinion-driven and are more in-depth than traditional news
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If a source's independence is in any doubt, it is better to exercise caution and exclude it from determining quality sources for the purposes of establishing notability. If contested, consensus on the use of sources can be sought at the
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international. Example: a tiny fraternal organization with a total membership of sixty members, worldwide, is not "international in scale" simply because the members live in separate countries and have formed sub-chapters where they
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from sources with well established reputation for independence and objectivity. Further, reviews that simply regurgitate someone else's opinion are also not independent sources unless enough original work was put in to produce a
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from local media (e.g., the weekly newspaper for a small town), or media of limited interest and circulation (e.g., a newsletter exclusively for people with a very unusual job), is not an indication of notability. At least
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must be used with great care. While feature stories from leading trade magazines may be used where independence is clear, there is a presumption against the use of coverage in trade magazines to establish notability.
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Examples: If a notable person buys a restaurant, the restaurant does not "inherit" notability from its owner. If a notable person joins an organization, the organization does not "inherit" notability from its member.
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a significant coverage for the Knowledge (XXG) article on the product or the CEO, but not a significant coverage on the company (unless the article or biography devotes significant attention to the company itself).
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guidelines, without reference to the notability of the parent organization. Take care not to split off a section that would be considered non-notable on its own. Splitting should occur as a top-down process. See
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The tech blog review is significant and secondary – but may not be independent (blog posts are often sponsored) and is not reliable (self-published sources are generally not reliable, unless they are written by
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Some organizations are local in scope, but have achieved national or even international notice. Organizations whose activities are local in scope (e.g., a school or club) can be considered notable if there is
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by reliable independent sources outside the organization's local area. Where coverage is only local in scope, consider adding a section on the organization to an article on the organization's local area
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company, or organization. Such coverage provides an organization with a level of attention that extends well beyond brief mentions and routine announcements, and makes it possible to write more than a
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Knowledge (XXG) bases its decision about whether an organization is notable enough to justify a separate article on the verifiable evidence that the organization or product has attracted the notice of
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as an example of a type of company or product being discussed (e.g. "In response to the protests, various companies, such as Acme Inc, have pledged to address working conditions in their factories")
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Editors coming across an article on such a company without such references are encouraged to search (or request that others search) prior to nominating for deletion, given the very high (but not
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other works in which the company, corporation, organization, or group talks about itself—whether published by itself, or re-printed by other people (for example, self-submitted biographies to
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Be reliable: The reviews must be published in reliable sources that provide editorial oversight and strive to maintain objectivity. Self-published reviews (e.g. most blogs) do not qualify.
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in the subject have actually considered the company, corporation, product or service notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial, non-routine works that focus upon it.
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Individual religious organizations (whether called congregations, synods, synagogues, temples, churches, etc.) must meet the notability guideline for organizations and companies or the
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blog by a non-staff contributor; a blog post by a tech enthusiast who has provided a review of the product; and a court filing by a competitor alleging patent infringement. Analysis:
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such sources to establish notability. If the suitability of a source is in doubt, it is better to exercise caution and exclude the source for the purposes of establishing notability.
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These criteria constitute an optional, alternative method for demonstrating notability. Organizations are considered notable if they meet one of the following sourcing requirements
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Individual sources must be evaluated separately and independently of each other and meet the four criteria below to determine if a source qualifies towards establishing notability:
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There has been considerable discussion over time whether publicly traded corporations, or at least publicly traded corporations listed on major stock exchanges such as the
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Court filings are primary sources. While we hope they will be truthful, court filings are written by the company (or its opponents in court), so they are not independent.
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of these criteria to be counted towards establishing notability; each source needs to be significant, independent, reliable, and secondary. In addition, there must also be
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Caveat – Be cautious of claims that small organizations are national or international in scale. The fact that an organization has branches in multiple countries does not
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are those that have a poor reputation for checking the facts, lack meaningful editorial oversight, or have an apparent conflict of interest. Self-published sources,
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blog profile is significant and secondary – but not independent or reliable (most such posts are company-sponsored or based on a company's marketing materials - see
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As a general rule, the individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not considered notable enough to warrant a separate article –
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Simply stated, an organization is a group of more than one person formed together for a purpose. This includes commercial and non-commercial activities, such as
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No organization is considered notable except to the extent that independent sources demonstrate that it has been noticed by people outside of the organization.
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the company and its products into separate articles, unless both have so much coverage in reliable secondary sources as to make a single article unwieldy.
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In some cases, a specific local chapter or sub-organization that is not considered notable enough for its own article may be significant enough to mention
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Patents are written and published solely at the direction of the inventor or organization that the inventor assigned the patent to. Their contents are
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other listings and mentions not accompanied by commentary, survey, study, discussion, analysis, or evaluation of the product, company, or organization.
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This guideline does not cover small groups of closely related people such as families, entertainment groups, co-authors, and co-inventors covered by
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raised capital, age of the company, etc.) do not make the coverage significant. For the coverage to be significant, the sources must describe and
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Therefore, the article does not have a single source that could be used to establish the notability of the company, let alone multiple sources.
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This page is to help determine whether an organization (commercial or otherwise), or any of its products and services, is a valid subject for a
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if no notable content remains. However, if an article contains only blatant advertising, with no other useful content, it may be tagged per
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The word "multiple" is not a set number and depends on the type of organization or product. Editors should recognize certain biases, such as
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be used to verify some non-controversial facts in the article (e.g. number of employees, number of tables in a restaurant, product models).
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for the verifiability and neutrality problems that affect material where the subject of the article itself is the source of the material.
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in the main article on the organization. If an embedded list becomes too large for the parent article, consideration may be given to
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article is reliable, independent, and secondary – but not significant (a single-sentence mention in an article about another company).
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of event schedules or results (such as theater performance schedule, score table of a sporting event, listing of award recipients),
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while pointing out a missing feature in a rival's product when compared to the product by Acme; an extensive company profile in a
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Many companies have chains of local stores or franchises that are individually pretty much interchangeable—for instance, a local
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Blog posts are often sponsored and self-published sources are generally not reliable unless written by a subject-matter expert.
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If no independent, third-party, reliable sources can be found on a topic, then Knowledge (XXG) should not have an article on it.
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including pieces like "case studies" or "success stories" by Chambers of Commerce, business incubators, consulting firms, etc.
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that are produced and/or marketed by the same company, avoid creating multiple stubs about each individual product (e.g.,
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The source's audience must also be considered. Significant coverage in media with an international, national, or at least
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A single significant independent source is almost never sufficient for demonstrating the notability of an organization.
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is prohibited as an official Knowledge (XXG) policy. Advertising should be removed by following these steps, in order:
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inclusion in lists of similar organizations, particularly in "best of", "top 100", "fastest growing" or similar lists,
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in a local newspaper or a book review in a newsletter by a city's library would not qualify as significant coverage.
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A product or service is appropriate for its own Knowledge (XXG) article when it has received sustained coverage in
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it into an article with a broader scope (for example, an article about the type of product) or follow one of the
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they are substantially discussed by reliable independent sources that extend beyond the chapter's local area.
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audience (e.g., the biggest daily newspaper in any US state) is a strong indication of notability. Attention
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for a full discussion on what reviews of restaurants, events, and products qualify as significant coverage.
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If you'd like to add a source assessment table to any deletion discussion page, you may use the user script
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any material that is substantially based on such press releases even if published by independent sources (
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The following sections discuss alternate methods for establishing notability in specific situations.
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travel blogs) are newer and more prone to manipulation by marketing and public relations personnel.
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A scholarly article, a book passage, or ongoing media coverage focusing on a product or organization,
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Examples of trivial coverage that do not count toward meeting the significant coverage requirement:
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to the organization or product. Notability requires only that these necessary sources have been
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or both. The fact that a religious building is listed on a major historic register such as the
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Be independent: Many reviews are not independent and are, in fact, a type of advertisement and
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An extensive how-to guide written by people wholly independent of the company or product (e.g.
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significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject
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A documentary film exploring environmental impact of the corporation's facilities or products,
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Examples of substantial coverage that would generally be sufficient to meet the requirement:
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any material written or published, including websites, by the organization, its members, or
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separate Knowledge (XXG) article dedicated solely to that organization, product, or service
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Information on sub-chapters of notable organizations might be included in either prose or
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Like any other source, to be counted towards the notability requirements, reviews must be
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No organization is exempt from this requirement, no matter what kind of organization it is
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reliable sources independent of the organization have given significant coverage to it.
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organizations for the purpose of overtly or covertly advertising a company. Please see
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verified to be accurate by the patent offices or any other independent agency. See
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Knowledge (XXG):Knowledge (XXG) is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
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of the participation in industry events, such as trade fairs or panel discussions,
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advertising and marketing materials by, about, or on behalf of the organization,
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Most such posts are company-sponsored or based on company's marketing materials.
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A news article discussing a prolonged controversy regarding a corporate merger,
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Knowledge (XXG):Notability § Articles not satisfying the notability guidelines
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independent secondary sources that contain significant coverage of the subject
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only if there are reliable sources dealing with the list as a topic, as with
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of non-notable awards received by the organization, its people, or products,
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The analysis of the above example can be summarized in the following table:
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be used with appropriate care to verify some of the article's content. See
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An encyclopedia entry giving an overview of the history of an organization,
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of the expansions, acquisitions, mergers, sale, or closure of the business,
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Content about the organization can be added into relevant articles if it:
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presentations, speeches, lectures, etc. given by organization's personnel,
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of employees, officers, directors, owners, or shareholders (see above for
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of a product or a product line launch, sale, change, or discontinuance,
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that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject.
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of sponsorship of events, non-profit organizations, or volunteer work,
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The scope of their activities is national or international in scale.
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of product instruction manuals, specifications, or certifications,
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A primary test of notability is whether unrelated people with no
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in quotations from an organization's personnel as story sources,
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any paid or sponsored articles, posts, and other publications,
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of quarterly or annual financial results and earning forecasts,
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cites four sources: a single-sentence mention in an article by
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do not count towards qualifying for an encyclopedia article.
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No company or organization is considered inherently notable.
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If a non-notable product or service has its own article, be
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addressing the subject of the article directly and in depth.
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public announcements of corporate actions (press releases),
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of office locations, branches, franchises, or subsidiaries,
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may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect
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although they may be reliable for verification purposes
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Alternate criteria for specific types of organizations
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