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Teahouse comments

For "why was my company page rejected on notability grounds":

No one is doubting the truth of what you have written, this is a question of ''notability''.

Wikipedia does not aim to have a page on every business that has ever existed (you wouldn't expect to see one about the burger shop down my street), and we do not simply wish to [[WP:INDISCRIMINATE|catalogue all information]]. Unlike well-known entities such as [[HSBC]], [[McDonalds]] or [[Ford Motors]], no general-purpose encylopedia in history has ever had an article on this specific company. So, therefore, before a page on this specific company can exist, an ''Articles for Creation'' reviewer need to be convinced that the company is "notable" enough to devote a page in the encylopedia to it.

We have [[WP:NCORP|specific guidelines for the notability of companies]]. As a rule of thumb [[WP:42|Articles generally require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic]]. Generally this is to be proved by the references used in the draft, we need to see evidence that major publications consider the company important enough to talk about. This does not include press releases (which are not ''independent''), and mainstream media carries a lot more weight on the ''significant coverage'' criterion than niche industry magazines etc.

By design of these strict criteria, most companies will not be considered "notable". If that is the case [[WP:AKON|no amount of editing of a draft can change this]]. Also if you are an employee of this company, please read our [[WP:COI|conflict-of-interest]] guidelines before proceeding.

AfC fail comments

For suspiciously promotional corporate pages:
If you are an employee of this company, please read our [[WP:COI|conflict-of-interest]] guidelines before proceeding.

For record labels where the draft is mostly a list of artists, some notable:
Being associated with notable artists does not make the record label itself notable. Need to see evidence the label ''itself'' is the subject of [[WP:42|significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject]], rather than simply mentioned in passing when the artists are discussed.