Talk:Solaria

Requested move 25 February 2019

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The result of the move request was: moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 21:31, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

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• Solaria (disambiguation) → Solaria
• Solaria → Solaria (fictional planet) (changed from Solaria (planet) in my original nomination)

– I'm not at all convinced that the article on the fictional planet currently at the base title is the primary topic. It's been occupying the base title since 2004 without any discussion of whether or not it is the primary topic. While it has more page views than other topics, that is likely to be a function of it's occupying the base title more than true reader interest. Putting "Solaria" into a search engine in the USA, most of the links on the first several pages of results are about a California based company that doesn't have a Wikipedia article yet. List_of_spacecraft_in_Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)#Solaria mentions another fictional Solaria. Plantdrew (talk) 20:35, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Page views aside, the article currently at Solaria is completely unreferenced, in-universe, and does not assert any kind of notabilty whatsoever. As such I am not at all comfortable with it being the "primary topic" for this term. Top Google search results in the UK are for the Spanish company. PC78 (talk) 21:24, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Note that I have removed Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente entry and sent the redirect to RfD because the term (a Spanish company) is not mentioned in the target article. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:32, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

• Support per nom - no clear primary topic. However, move to Solaria (fictional planet)??? Paintspot Infez (talk) 02:57, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been questioning whether the disambiguator I chose in the nomination was consistent with similar articles. Under Category:Fictional planets by work, titles requiring disambiguation most frequently use the name of the fictional franchise/work. There are 14 title that don't mention the franchise: 5 articles that use (planet), 6 that use (fictional planet), and 3 that use other disambiguators that indicate fiction. Solaria (Isaac Asimov) is another existing redirect to Solaria (which appears in two of Asimov's series:Robot and Foundation). Earth (Foundation universe), Gaia (Foundation universe), Terminus (planet) (Foundation), Aurora (fictional planet) (Foundation?/Robot) appear to be all the other Asimov planets that have disambiguators. Revising my nomination to suggest Solaria (fictional planet) as a more consistent disambiguator for a fictional planet. Terminus (planet) should probably be moved to Terminus (Foundation universe), and there are additional inconsistencies in disambiguation of Babylon 5 planets. Plantdrew (talk)

• Support In ictu oculi (talk) 16:02, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
• Support Peter coxhead (talk) 16:56, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
• Support both, with 2nd move Solaria (fictional planet). I agree with the nom. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:34, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

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Solaria, producer of solar PV panels in Fremont, CA

Solaria produces solar PV panels in Fremont, California. This disambiguation page does not mention them, though EnergySage lists Solaria in their top five rated by energy conversion ratio.

This text frames why there ought to be another entry on 'Solaria (manufacturer)':

"Solaria was founded in the early 2000s when the cost of silicon, the raw material for photovoltaics, was a dominant cost of a PV system. Over the next few years, Solaria assembled a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, with remarkable design ingenuity, to develop a sophisticated product and manufacturing process.

Solaria has developed a technology platform that unlocks the potential of solar energy allowing it to be ubiquitous and universally accessed. Solaria created one of the industry’s most respected IP portfolios, with over 100 patents encompassing materials, processes, applications, products, manufacturing automation and equipment.

Solaria’s first series of products, known as low-concentration-photovoltaics (LCPV), were fully tested, certified and productized, with over 30 megawatts installed in demanding, utility-grade, deployments around the world. Solaria became synonymous with field-tested, high quality, durable, high-performance LCPV combined with innovative solar tracking arrays.

When silicon costs dramatically declined, and solar panel production shifted towards China, Solaria stood the test of time and developed a unique way to leverage its knowledge and technology.

Solaria created NEXTracker, answering the growing market need for highly integrated and cost-effective tracking systems. Leveraging its depth and breadth in the system domain, NEXTracker was spun-out. Within a year, NEXTracker became the independent provider of tracking systems and grew one hundred fold. A year later, Flextronics acquired it for $335M, and it continues the same growth trajectory. Buoyed by its immense success, Solaria knew that in this new era of solar, it could pave the way for solar everywhere."

References

Yes, as I said in the move nomination: "Putting "Solaria" into a search engine in the USA, most of the links on the first several pages of results are about a California based company that doesn't have a Wikipedia article yet". If you want to write an article about this company, go ahead. I'm not aware of any existing links that intend this company; absent an article or links from other articles (or strong evidence that people are seeking an article on the topic), the dab page isn't going to mention this company. Plantdrew (talk) 20:31, 3 March 2019 (UTC)