Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lutron Electronics Company

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The result was redirect to Joel Spira (businessman). The two !keep voters confuse "importance" with "notability", and one of them somewhat agrees that a redirect would suffice. (non-admin closure) Kraxler (talk) 15:59, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lutron Electronics Company

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Not an obviously notable company, a solid, competent manufacturer of dimmer switches. That's not enough for an encyclopaedia article of interest to the world at large. There are some passing mentions in sources, but not really enough sustained coverage. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 07:22, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Not really my field (Electronics is, US practice and company history isn't). However Lutron and Joel Spira clearly have a good claim of innovation for low-cost domestic light dimmers. Domestic lights didn't dim before Lutron, afterwards they did. I can't claim that we have to have two articles here, but it's enough of an innovation to claim that Lutron is notable. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:04, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:32, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:32, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:33, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - even the Apple Watch has a Lutron app. This is the major manufacturer in light dimmers. A little WP:BEFORE would have been useful here. At worst, this can be combined with the founder's Wikipedia article with appropriate redirects. VMS Mosaic (talk) 02:27, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I did do some WP:BEFORE (hence the "there are some passing mentions in sources....") but a redirect would be a good compromise. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 21:48, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Joel Spira as it seems it got the majority of attention through him with my searches here, here (simply business listings) and here (not much good either) and here. SwisterTwister talk 05:34, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 01:30, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JAaron95 ^Talk 14:02, 10 July 2015 (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.