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:Regarding your draft, if no or few independent [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] with sigificant coverage exist, the company would not merit an article at this time. Wikipedia is not a place to merely document the existence of a company; it is a place to summarize what independent [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the company, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of [[WP:ORG|a notable company]]. Not every company merits an article, it depends on the sources. Those sources must be wholly unconnected with the company- they cannot be staff interviews, press releases, announcements of routine business activities, brief mentions, or other [[WP:PRIMARY|primary sources]]. Feel free to show this message to your superiors if you have been directed to create this draft- if so, you have unfortunately been given an impossible task. [[User:331dot|331dot]] ([[User talk:331dot|talk]]) 14:44, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
:{{u|Andrea.ca}} I'm going to add to the excellent advice above, and emphasize that one of the key aspects of Wikipedia is verifiability. One of the reasons we don't like it when companies try to edit their own articles is they add a lot of info that they "just know", without bothering to source it. Almost nothing in your draft is sourced. Unsourced info should be removed. I tried to find media coverage of the company that perhaps you missed. I thought the nearly billion dollar acquisition of DSI by Sandvik would have gotten some press. Unfortunately, the best coverage of the transaction I could find was this. [[https://www.canadianminingjournal.com/news/sandvik-to-acquire-dsi-underground-an-underground-safety-solutions-company/]] It's almost a pure cut and paste from the press release you issued. It uses the weasel words "global leader", has no author's name, and even links to the company web site at the bottom. When's the last time you saw a reputable publication link to a company website in a news article? Only trade publications that exist to promote the subjects do this, and those sources are accordingly deprecated. In order to demonstrate notability, you have to show that the press thinks you're notable, by writing about you. Until then, your article will not be accepted. [[User:TechnoTalk|TechnoTalk]] ([[User talk:TechnoTalk|talk]]) 19:39, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
::Thank you both, this helps a lot. There is not much coverage on the company, so maybe I'll just use your arguments to leave this behind me until we have more sources etc. [[User:Andrea.ca|Andrea.ca]] ([[User talk:Andrea.ca|talk]]) 12:19, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
== 20:26:58, 2 May 2022 review of submission by 74.74.128.248 ==
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