Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Public-benefit corporation

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus. Daniel (talk) 06:09, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Public-benefit corporation[edit]

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I am unconvinced of the need for a disambiguation page here. This is a WP:TWODABS page for which the primary topic is probably the vastly more well-developed Benefit corporation article. I would delete this page and redirect the title there. BD2412 T 04:41, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW: This was recently changed from an article to a dab page by me. There are currently 150+ incoming links (many more, if you count the links to a couple of well-used and equally ambiguous redirects), which I'm slowly picking away at. So far, most of the ones I've looked at were intended for the public-benefit nonprofit corporation article, but again, I've only dealt with a few so far. It seems to me that this should be kept at least until the incoming links are resolved.

Another possibility to consider: the former article at this location as well as both of the target articles list several other entities that might be appropriate for a "See also" section in this page (mutual-benefit nonprofit corporation, religious corporation, non-profit corporation, low-profit limited liability company, community interest company), which might justify keeping it around.--NapoliRoma (talk) 18:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:28, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:34, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect: to Benefit corporation per the nomination. Note that state law governs many of these, and they may differ from state to state. It is inconvenient that some of our article sources may themselves not be carefully distinguishing the for-profit and non-profit versions of these corporations. A Benefit corporation is a *for-profit* entity. For example, the incoming link from Purdue Pharma would probably require careful reading of the sources linked in the article to see whether what they mean is a for-profit or non-profit company. It is possible that what is referred to in that article is really a public beneficiary trust. A recent article at a Harvard Law website has some news about Delaware's law on public benefit corporations. When we are sure that an incoming link wants the *nonprofit* version, then a good redirect would be to Public-benefit nonprofit corporation. Even though that appears to duplicate Nonprofit corporation#Public-benefit corporation. EdJohnston (talk) 23:12, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and improve. Although Benefit corporation appears to be the better-developed Wikipedia article, I doubt it is the most common topic that users would be searching for with this term. These for-profit benefit corporations are fairly novel and uncommon, whereas non-profit organizations have been around for a long time, are numerous, and are the more likely topic that users are looking for. Both of the linked articles are regrettably U.S.-centric and do not address topics that users in other countries might be seeking. Plus, there are other topics even in the U.S. that might be listed on this page, such as New York state public-benefit corporations, which are more like public authorities than like charitable organizations. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:00, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 12:49, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Bold third relist for further input.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 02:59, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rawr. Well, Benefit corporation needs a hatnote that refers to all of these articles. It would make a nice short hatnote to simply refer to this disambiguation page, but might not do a good job hinting at the available content. I'd lean toward redirecting this page and turning the contents into a somewhat long hatnote. But this is not a strong preference. -- Beland (talk) 08:02, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural close. Third entry was added, and it is obviously valid, taking away the grounds for deletion indicated in WP:ONEOTHER, which is the nomination's case, so there's nothing to discuss here now really. — Alalch Emis (talk) 23:34, 24 November 2021 (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.