Talk:Keithley Instruments

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I took off the WikiProject Denmark thing because Keithley has never been Danish nor owned by a Danish company. I don't know how the WikiProjects work, so if I was wrong to do so for some odd reason, feel free to put it back.

Yesterday Keithley Instruments was sold in a 300 million dollar deal. Research and writing for that is in process and will be added to this page. Thank you various wikipedia administrators for helping get this page restored. Bctwriter (talk) 18:25, 30 September 2010 (UTC) __________________________________________________________________________[reply]

Hello, The page for Keithley Instruments was deleted as not a company of note. I am sure this was an error. Keithley Instruments is a major corporation and an industry leader. I am a business writer from Cleveland Ohio and they are one of the organizations I am able to discuss. Here are some highlights of the organization, Founded in 1946

Publicly traded on NYSE

Sales of $120 million

Employs more than 500+

Holder of 20 R & D 100 awards from R & D Magazine, presented annually to the 100 most significant new products introduced that year

Hundreds of patents - I can itemize these if needed. They are clearly an industry leader. I am not employed by the firm and have no interest but I do write about Cleveland company and test and measurement organizations. Can we get this article reviewed. I did not write the original but would be happy to rewrite it, assuming we can recover, and ensure it does not have a marketing or promotional tone. Bctwriter (talk) 01:03, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The place to review deletions is WP:DRV. Can you find links to sources for the awards? Those would help to establish the notability of the company. Will Beback talk 01:20, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Will, I am working on sourcing those awards but the company was sold yesterday for 300 million. Here is a link to that story. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/09/keithley_instruments_sold_for.html I would like to start to get new information on this company added, can we petition to get that page restored so we can update. I am a bit unfamiliar with getting a page restored but knowing wikipedia users, of which I am one, will be trying to use this for information in this situation, I would like the page to be accurate. Here is their Yahoo finance page. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=KEI

Is there any possibility someone maliciously removed the page. It's hard to believe a 300 million dollar, publically traded company was considered not of note.

Appreciate all your help, Bctwriter (talk) 13:05, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Clearly the removal of the Keithley page is vandalism. Some Facts - as of 2010 Keithley is doing about 100 million in USD sales. The company was sold for about 330 Million USD.

The company has approximately 83 US patents as of November 2010. Here is a search to them all. Go to: http://www.freepatentsonline.com -> Advanced Search - enter "AN/Keithley Instruments" (This searches for assignee = Keithley Instruments). You should see a list of about 83 patents. NorCal RS (talk) 05:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]