Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IA Financial Group

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. Star Mississippi 22:47, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

IA Financial Group

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Article about a company, not properly referenced as passing WP:GNG or WP:CORPDEPTH. As always, companies are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to have their significance externally validated by reliable source coverage and analysis in media and books -- but the only "source" here is the company's own self-published fact sheet about itself. (There's one other footnote, but it's a clarifying note about the company name — "iA Financial Group is a business name and trademark of Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc." — rather than an external reference.)
And while there were other sources here in the past which got stripped in a recent clumsy rewrite by a brand-new editor with a very likely conflict of interest (user name = Inalco, which almost certainly stands for Industrial Alliance Corporation), it was still sourced entirely to content self-published by the company itself and/or simple business directories rather than reliable or notability-supporting journalism, so simply reverting the most recent edit wouldn't solve the problem.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt the company from having to be referenced properly. Bearcat (talk) 12:37, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies and Quebec. Bearcat (talk) 12:37, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
• Keep Surprisingly hard to find information, this is a large Canadian financial institution. Mostly French sources,: they were featured on a consumer protection show in Quebec here: [1], an article about some financial trouble they encountered [2] and a large fine they had to pay [3] and a story about a hacker gaining access to their computer network [4]. Newspaper and a television source. Oaktree b (talk) 13:40, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 13:42, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:38, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

• Keep I agree with Oaktree b. Also, readers need our help in dealing with this major company. Rjensen (talk) 19:42, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
• Keep . Passes NCORP per the sources identified by Oaktree b.4meter4 (talk) 17:05, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

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