Wikipedia:FLAG-INC

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Contents 1 1st Step: Flag the article 2 2nd Step: Alert the author 3 3rd Step: Tag the article 4 4th Step: MOVE ON

New pages patrol editors should use this protocol if they feel that a new article fails WP:CORP, or if you plan to apply a {{Db-inc}} or {{Db-club}} to an article and generate the concern:

It is an article about a company, corporation, organization, or group that does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject. (CSD A7)

You may also follow these steps to tag it for a proposed deletion if you think that a speedy deletion may be premature.

1. Put {{Flag-article}} on the Discussion page.
2. Put {{Flag-editor}} on the author's Talk page.
3. Put {{Prod}}, {{Db-inc}}, or {{Db-club}} on the Article.
4. MOVE ON.

If you are an inclusionist, then you can use this protocol to flag articles and editors for cleanups during some future session, in which case the 3rd Step becomes, "Put some lipstick on this pig." :-)

To quote from Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies),

This includes commercial and non-commercial activities including, but not limited to, charitable organizations, educational institutions, institutions, interest groups, organizations, social clubs, companies, partnerships, proprietorships, religious denominations, sects, etc.

So this is a "blanket" protocol that may be used on many types of articles, e.g., you might replace "company, corporation, organization, or group" with either "sorority" or "fitness club".

Your initial reason for considering the article for deletion may be lack of any Attribution whatsoever, but remember that is not grounds for a A7 speedy delete:

“	The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.	”
	— Gin Rummy, The Boondocks

It is the author's responsibility to find reliable source references, but just because there are none currently in the article does not mean that none can be found by a simple Google search ... if you do not have time to look for them at the moment, then flag the article for further review later.

[edit] 1^st Step: Flag the article

Place the following {{Flag-article}} on the article's Discussion page. (If it already has messages, you may omit the {{Talkheader}} template.)

{{Talkheader}}
{{subst:Flag-article|Name-of-author|Companies|header=1}} —~~~~

Don't forget the edit summary:

"talkheader - 1st contact"

[edit] 2^nd Step: Alert the author

Place the following {{Flag-editor}} on the author's Talk page. (If they already have messages, you may omit the {{Welcome}} template, or substitute another one if you prefer, like {{Nn-welcome}}.)

{{subst:Welcome}}
{{subst:Flag-editor|Name-of-article|Companies|header=1}} —~~~~ 

Provide an edit summary:

"Flagging [[name-of-article]] for further review"

[edit] 3^rd Step: Tag the article

{{subst:Prod|Article lacks sufficient [[WP:Attribution|]] for
[[WP:Verifiability|]] of the [[WP:CORP]] notability criteria}}
 
     ... or ...

{{Db-inc}}

Edit summary: "{{Prod}} | {{Db-inc}} -- see Discussion page"

[edit] 4^th Step: MOVE ON

If the author removes the CSD tag, there's already a {{Drmspeedy2}} on their Talk page in a comment field from the Second Step ... all you have to do is remove the comment brackets ... you don't even have to do a copy&paste to warn them. :-)

If a Discussion page still has not gone redlink after a week, then you may assume that:

• it's already been revisited at least once already
• Some Other Editor has declined it since your last visit, but they neglected to ping you.

This means it's time to either:

(a) consider whether you want to try to improve the article by searching for evidence of notability,

(b) involve the rest of the community with an AfD, or else

(c) delete it from your watchlist and MOVE ON.

Specific guidelines and protocols for common A7 speedy deletions

Notability guideline Shortcut Flag protocol Speedy deletion template People WP:BIO WP:FLAG-BIO {{Db-person}} Academics WP:PROF WP:FLAG-PROF N/A Fiction WP:FICT WP:FLAG-FICT N/A Films WP:MOVIE WP:FLAG-MOVIE N/A Musicians and bands WP:BAND or WP:MUSIC WP:FLAG-BAND {{Db-band}} Organizations and companies WP:CORP or WP:ORG WP:FLAG-INC {{Db-inc}} or {{Db-club}} Schools WP:SCL WP:FLAG-SCL N/A Web content WP:WEB WP:FLAG-WEB {{Db-web}}