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How to find out when a Wikipedia article was created?

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  • Hi all, I recently opened a company.We provide services that combine education with couple of other activities (sorry I don`t want to disclose much details). I looked online and didn `t find anyone who does the same thing as we do. When I was asked in what industry our company works I didn`t know what to answer. It is not 100% industry of education, is nor 100% industry of entertainment etc... it`s a hybrid of at least 3-4 industries. So I created a very interesting name for what we do and even created a name for the industry we work in. Now I want to write an article on Wikipedia about this new (created by me) industry. Does anyone know if I can mention our company in this article? Is it allowed? I would like to say that we invented such name for this new industry and say something like "One of the most successful company working in this new ABC industry is... (our company`s name)???? I spent good 3 hours on Wiki site and didn`t find anything that helps. Should I just write the article or should I check some other resources before?

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    You can contact wikipedia and ask them how to submit an article. The link below gives you the contact info. It is not unusual at all to find an article about a specific company in wikipedia and I'll give you two examples on it below too, including one on the for profit University of Phoenix. I am sure it is written by them, hence the cautionary note about its neutrality. Just don't puff it up too much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_pheonix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Computers

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It's a bad idea. "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability. All content must be verifiable. If no independent, third-party, reliable sources can be found on a topic, then Wikipedia should not have an article on it." Read more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28organizations_and_companies%29 and mind the suggestions you got in the other thread.

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