Talk:Hughes Helicopters

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Toolco Helicopters[edit]

"Hughes Tool Co.: Aircraft Division" is listed on the identiplates (identification plates) of the U.S. Army OH-6 helicopters that were produced between 1966-1968. In 1976, the division was spun off as its own company to facilitate the AH-64 contract. I'll be looking to relocate my references to verify this information. --Born2flie 18:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Notability"[edit]

This article has existed for almost 2 years. In the last 3 weeks, I have made significant additions to this article, and plan to do more as I can in the near future. While it currently cites no sources, I am looking for some to cite. However, as an aviation enthusiast, I have read about Hughes Helicopters for years, and nothing here seems out-of-the-ordinary or non-factual.

As for its "notability", it was founded by Howard Hughes! How more notable can you get? It's not like this is a fly-by-night company that was around for only a few years, and only made one protoype. The company's history and accomplishments are in the article; I'm not going to repeat them here or anywhere else.

If you feel there are areas the article needs improvement to become "notable", then list them here, and I will be glad to address them here. There was obviously a reason the tag was added, but I can't guess what it was by reading generic articles in the tag, and I'm not going to try to prove something without knowing what the problem is. Is is not notable only because it hasn't cited sources? You just added the tag today, so when have we had time to address the problem? - BillCJ 07:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The link to policy (which wasn't right in the edit summary) is WP:CORP. That page says:

A company or corporation is notable if it meets any of the following criteria:

The company or corporation has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the company or corporation itself.
The company or corporation is listed on ranking indices of important companies produced by well-known and independent publications.
The company's or corporation's share price is used to calculate stock market indices.4 Being used to calculate an index that simply comprises the entire market is excluded.

Hughes Helicopters satisifies the first criterion easily, not just borderline or close. Being a defunct company it doesn't satisfy the second, but would if it was an active corporation. The third is not really relevant - under Hughes/Summa Corp. ownership it was always private. A case could be made for merging it with MD Helicopters I think, but deleting for non-notabilty? That was either a misunderstanding of the significance of the company or, I'm sorry to say, less than constructive behaviour. Mark83 13:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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==Start== Born2flie: Needs to fill out information about the company. --21:59, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 21:59, 31 December 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 18:25, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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