Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dur-O-Lite Pencil Company

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:46, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dur-O-Lite Pencil Company

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Does not seem to have been a notable company Chidgk1 (talk) 16:37, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Chidgk1 (talk) 16:37, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:00, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete nothing found on Google related to its notability, just advertisements for vintage pencils. Jaguarnik (talk) 20:16, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Google did not exist when this very old company ceased to exist. It was a major player in its day.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161024235818/https://unllib.unl.edu/Bolin_resources/pencil_page/mystery/SPIRAL_GUIDE.HTML#institutional_customers

https://web.archive.org/web/20160529022811/http://unllib.unl.edu/Bolin_resources/pencil_page/mystery/mystery.html Lyra Faust (talk) 20:49, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The company owned patents for a unique mechanical pencil with a spiral mechanism. Major institutional customers included The United States Government, Bell System, Western Electric, H&R Block, and Esso. Millions of mechanical pencils were sold. I call that notable.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161024235818/https://unllib.unl.edu/Bolin_resources/pencil_page/mystery/SPIRAL_GUIDE.HTML#institutional_customers

https://web.archive.org/web/20160529022811/http://unllib.unl.edu/Bolin_resources/pencil_page/mystery/mystery.html Lyra Faust (talk) 20:43, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Robert Bolin's articles, which are currently cited in the article, look really interesting! But as one of them says at the very top, it is a "working paper based partially on conjecture" and they don't qualify as a reliable sources per WP:RS. I searched the Internet Archive, and got 277 hits, but what I'm finding is mostly advertisements for Dur-O-Lite Pencils in publications like Business Week, Forbes, Office Appliances, and Telephony going back to the 1920s, plus directory listings in Reprographics magazine; Google Books shows similar results, plus the US Patent Office Index to Patents. I searched Wikipedia Library as well and got 2 hits, both listings in product directories. What we are looking for per WP:NCORP is significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources independent of the subject, so unfortunately it doesn't look like it will pass according to current Wikipedia guidelines. I noticed as well that the page for John P. Lynn is a stub with zero sources, so it might be worth trying to add citations and references to that one if you are aware of any, per WP:GNG. Cielquiparle (talk) 00:19, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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