Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atlas Copco

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The result was keep‎. Withdrawn per below (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 15:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Atlas Copco[edit]

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Non notable company, Fails NCORP and GNG –Davey2010^Talk 22:38, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Major international corporation. At least 45,000 employees (according to the Swedish version of the article). Component of the OMX Stockholm 30, so one of the 30 largest companies in Sweden. Sure, the article could stand some improvement but there is a notable topic here. (I did some cleanup on it back in 2017 when it was in a far worse state and it has been lurking, unloved, on my Watchlist since then.) Main problem is still that so much of the content is referenced to the company's own publications. There are plenty of Google News hits, including articles in high quality sources like the Financial Times. Most are routine stuff but there is definitely some more substantial stuff in there too (e.g. [1]). There is a whole book about them which I think is independently published by Studentlitteratur. There are a lot of hits in Google Scholar, admittedly of varying relevance and quality. If I'm finding this much and I don't speak Swedish then I think there is plenty out there. I'm sure that the main claims about the company's history can be referenced from independent sources, particularly if a Swedish speaker wants to have a go. Anything that can't can be removed. --DanielRigal (talk) 23:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"If I'm finding this much" - Respectfully other than a FT cite, a book and a mention of Google Scholar you've not found much if anything,

"I'm sure that the main claims about the company's history can be referenced from independent sources" - What independent sources ?, I've obviously performed a WP:BEFORE search and nothing came back that establishes notability and or one can build an article out of. Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 10:24, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's inconcievable that BEFORE was observed. 200 000 hits in the Swedish newspaper archives. Draken Bowser (talk) 11:27, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. DanielRigal (talk) 23:58, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. DanielRigal (talk) 23:58, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep: one of Swedens largest companies in terms of employees, with a market capitalization above 80 billion USD.

Fantastic for a promotional advert, meaningless for an Encyclopedia. –Davey2010^Talk 10:25, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I removed some blatant promotional and trivial content way back. If there is more then that can be removed too. That is not an argument for complete deletion. DanielRigal (talk) 11:39, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I've rarely seen an article at AfD I think so easily passes our guidelines for what content we want to include. This is a major corporation with a huge footprint in the history of Swedish manufacturing. /Julle (talk) 12:35, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DanielRigal @Draken Bowser @Julle, Apologies all, At the time of searching only 7-10 results showed but having now re-searched ... yeah there's over 30 pages on Google and this does easily pass GNG so I don't know why the limited results earlier ?. I always do a BEFORE search before nominating always have done so I'm lost as to why none of this showed earlier ?, Anyway I'm happy for this to be kept, Thanks all. –Davey2010^Talk 15:31, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.