Talk:IDEXX Laboratories
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[edit] Notability
It's a publically owned company with 4k employees and growing. See monster, yahoo finance profile, glowing Juniper article (PDF) (google html), CYNTEGRA controversy, Wright Reports profile, Google Finance page, Reuters' watchpage, Business Objects profile, PRNewswire story, Hoovers review, or take a minute to read the IDEXX webpage. Sometimes PR really is true...or maybe look at the business units map (PDF) for IDEXX. Somewhere along the way, a company with offices in over a dozen countries must surely graduate into "notable". Tomertalk 01:37, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
As an employee, I probably shouldn't be doing too much editing of this article... Tomertalk 01:40, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
- I can see why the article was tagged for notability -- the information you give on this talk page establishing notability isn't in the article. You know this company, you have reliable outside sources on this company, and as long as you stick with verifiable facts, I don't see a problem with your developing this article. This is a listed company. There are obvious risks in WP:COI. If you can stay neutral on your edits, neutral facts could be useful to Wikipedia readers. If you can include bad news as well as good -- without getting defensive -- it'll help everyone understand this company. :)
- Frankly, I'd like to know more about this company -- its history, its structure, its products, its successes and failures. If you take a look at some other company articles such as Apple, Inc. and Conagra you can see some basic outlines for company articles. Take a look at Wikipedia:Good article criteria and Wikipedia:Featured article criteria. A company's financial information is only a part of the story, and often not particularly interesting to laymen. Four thousand employees help make and sell this company's products, and this company's products are purchased all around the world, right? Why? How? If you can tell Wikipedia readers about this, I say, tell the readers. Be bold. As long as you keep it neutral, I'll back your edits. --Busy Stubber 02:12, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
