Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IBM Haifa Research Laboratory

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The result was merge to IBM Israel#Haifa Research Lab. The editors carrying out the merge need to be aware of the details in this discussion, though. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:41, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

IBM Haifa Research Laboratory[edit]

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I prodded it with "No evidence this company passes WP:NCOMPANY/GNG. Could redirect to IBM research, through it's dubious this sub-lab is a likely searchable term." Prod was declined, an anon redirected it later, that was reverted. Time for an AfD discussion. What makes this research institute separately notable from its parent company (IBM Research)? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:12, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:12, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete very little independent coverage, could just be included on parent company's page. → Lil-℧niquԐ 1 - (Talk) - 12:38, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge. But we need to see a serious merge proposal and discussion first. The previous so-called merge that I reverted was just a delete, with the merge target article getting smaller when 6 other articles were deleted. This was just wrong. If we don't have a sensible merge plan for the more minor sites, keep them. For the major sites like Almaden and Zurich, just keep. Dicklyon (talk) 02:33, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And what is your keep rationale outside 'previous merge had none', which is hardly a valid one...? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:35, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge the lead content into IBM_Israel#Haifa_Research_Lab, where the lab is discussed in a broader coontext. I wasn't able to find in depth independent sources sufficient for WP:GNG about this lab in particular, but basic facts about the lab--it exists and works in fields X, Y, and Z, etc., are verifable. The history of the lab is already discussed extensively in History of IBM research in Israel (also with deficient sourcing), so just the lead summary needs to be merged. For verifiable content, an alternative to deletion, such as a merge, is preferred per our policy WP:ATD. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 11:41, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per above editor analysis. 2604:2000:E010:1100:6CE7:D625:5B30:1B91 (talk) 08:55, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.