Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

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Procedural nomination. It has previously been tagged as blatant advertising, but it isn't completely promotional or non-notable. I abstain. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:36, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletions. -- Carom 19:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

• Vote to KEEP article -- I volunteer to take the first cut at its re-write.

The Ball article has over 40 links to it, 95% of which are aerospace industry related links. Ball has and still is producting satellites for NASA and DOD. The first 3 paragraphs are not written well for Wikipedia. Of the many contributors to this article, one of them should step forward for the re-write...maybe the person who mark this article for deletion could take the first cut, too. The impact of deleting this article would leave those links as unreferenced/not cited properly/stubbed articles.

I will look at other aerospace contractor articles and use some of the styles of writing found in them and start there. Respectfully submitted,LanceBarber 20:18, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

:Update -- if I read the history file correctly, an unregistered editor, IP 67.101.163.82, marked the article for deletion. Wonder why this person does not want to share their identity.LanceBarber 20:36, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

"Thank you" to User:Fleminra for jumping in a doing the first cut. LanceBarber 05:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

• Keep, company is notable for its prominent work in aerospace. (As a defense contractor it is definitely second-tier.) Article should be better referenced, but that's a cleanup issue. --Dhartung | Talk 05:28, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Very appropriate article and at this point free from commercial spam. DGG 01:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep The company seems notable. It's hard to claim that a top-100 defence contractor isn't worth an article. The article itself could certainly be better. There might even be an argument that a single article on the parent Ball Corp. would be enough, if there is not enough third-party coverage of the defence contractor's activities. Most likely it will be possible to dig up enough info, though. EdJohnston 03:25, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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