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Keyence America

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Fails to establish WP:NCORP. Sources are primary from the company own website and organisations that are related to it. Santa Saana (talk) 08:36, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Companies and United States of America. Santa Saana (talk) 08:36, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related AfD discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:56, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
• Redirect to Keyence. AI slop and fails WP:NCORP on its own. ~2026-25920-61 (talk) 14:35, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
• Redirect to Keyence The TA puts it best; there's an article to be had here, but it shouldn't be made up solely of LLM output. Nathannah • 📮 01:05, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Keep, second choice Merge to Keyence. The article has been substantially rewritten since the AfD nomination, addressing both the WP:NCORP concerns from the nominator and the "AI slop" / "LLM output" concerns from subsequent commenters. Independent secondary source coverage now spans four categories: Real-estate trade press (subject = Keyence Corporation of America): REBusinessOnline (2019), REJournals (2019), and CoStar (2016). Three independent publications reporting multi-million-dollar Itasca lease transactions with named brokerage firms, lease terms, and building specs, going beyond routine corporate disclosure. Government records (subject = Keyence Corporation of America): Village of Itasca Ordinance No. 1835-16 (2016) and a zoning memorandum (2020). Independent municipal records of the company's physical operations. Federal court records (subject = Keyence Corporation of America): Three U.S. district courts (D. Minn. 2011, S.D. Ind. 2022, E.D. Tex. 2024) have docketed cases naming Keyence Corporation of America as a U.S. legal party, confirming the entity's independent legal significance through public-record sources. Industry trade-press recognition with multi-decade continuous coverage: a Quality Magazine 2010 in-depth product report including a direct-quoted interview with Keyence Corporation of America's Michael Montgomery (then assistant technical marketing manager); a 2015 Quality Magazine product article; Control Engineering (2009); Vision Systems Design coverage of the 2015 Innovators Award Gold-level honor; Automation World company profile with product and operations details; and Electronic Specifier. On the "LLM output" / "AI slop" concern (WP:SURMOUNTABLE, WP:HEY): Writing style is a cleanup issue, not a notability issue. The current revision removed promotional phrasing, restructured the body around independently verifiable secondary sources, and trimmed the parent-company filler. Reviewers are invited to assess the cleaned-up version against the AfD bar rather than the version originally nominated. On WP:NOTINHERITED: The article does not rely on parent-company notability. Each source category above independently documents the U.S. subsidiary's legal entity, U.S. operations, U.S. presence, and U.S. legal proceedings, separate from any inherited notability of the Japanese parent. A previously cited Bloomberg article focused on the Japanese parent has been removed from the body to keep the scope cleanly KCOA-specific. On WP:CORPDEPTH: Coverage extends beyond routine product announcements. The 2019 REBusinessOnline article alone contains (a) named brokerage firms representing both landlord and tenant, (b) specific lease size and term, (c) building specifications, and (d) tenant-positioning language, meeting the "deep or significant coverage" requirement. The 2010 Quality Magazine interview adds depth on business model and product strategy. On WP:AUD: Sources span national audiences (Forbes for industry context) and specialized industry audiences (Quality Magazine, Control Engineering, Vision Systems Design, Automation World, REBusinessOnline), satisfying the diversity requirement. Note on sourcing: Several commercial market-research analyst URLs were considered during drafting but multiple of those domains are on en.wikipedia's spam blacklist and were therefore not included. The article relies on industry trade publications, real-estate trade press, government records, and federal court records, all of which are independently verifiable and policy-compliant. Merge as second choice: If consensus rejects standalone notability, I prefer merge to Keyence under a "United States operations" section (final section name to be coordinated with the parent article's structure), preserving the sourced KCOA-specific material, with redirects from "Keyence America" and "Keyence Corporation of America" both pointing to the merged anchor. This is preferable to a flat redirect that would lose the verifiable content. Happy to perform the merge work if consensus settles there. Per WP:HEY, I respectfully suggest the discussion may be reassessed against the substantially improved sourcing now in the article. Happy to address any specific source concerns raised by other editors. ~~~~ Ramenyakitori (talk) 07:20, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

• Redirect to Keyence as WP:NEWLLM violation. It is clear by the consistent undue attribution of sources such as "Industry trade publications including Quality Magazine, Control Engineering, and Vision Systems Design have covered the company's products and technology over multiple decades". The author's AI generated response and rewrite only cements that further. Industry awards are WP:CORPTRIV. SecretSpectre (talk) 07:55, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the list of Suspected AI-generated articles-related AfD discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:45, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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