On a broader note, there's a lot said on this site about BLP. In law, a company is a person. Shouldn't BLP protection extend to companies, and shouldn't editors here be as opposed to creation of articles on companies as they are to creation of articles on living humans?
You may say that if there's a mistake in a company article it's not going to hurt "real people". Not true; if a company is damaged it affects the employees, the shareholders and pension funds that invest in it. Further, an article on a company might well refer to the actions of individual directors of the company. If people are worried about deliberate vandalism or insertion of false data, isn't that more likely to happen to a company article because a company is more likely to have detractors or business rivals, and vandals are more likely to think "it's only a company, I'm not hurting anyone"?
Also, I suspect that articles on companies that are "vanity creations" by employees or agents of the company outnumber "vanity bios" written by the subjects themselves.
So should there be a policy of not having articles on companies, and "default to delete" on AfDs?
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