Notes on notability
Field notes on what earns a place in the encyclopedia, and what does not.
Silence is not neutral
A merge proposal sat on a subsidiary's talk page for eleven days while legal reviewed a reply. By the time the reply was ready, the merge was already done, closed for lack of objection. On Wikipedia, waiting is not the same as holding your ground.
Praise is not evidence
A draft called the founder a visionary and the company award-winning. Both claims were true. Neither survived review — Wikipedia asks for facts and attribution, not adjectives.
Notable elsewhere is not notable here
A stable, well-cited German Wikipedia article did nothing for the English one — each edition runs its own review, and neither can vouch for the other.
A draft is not a deposit
A company biography sat in Articles for Creation for six quiet months, and the client treated the wait as progress already banked. It wasn't. It was a clock, and nobody had been winding it.