Template:Did you know nominations/ClearSign Combustion

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 13:34, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

ClearSign Combustion

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• ... that it is thought ClearSign Combustion may have been the first publicly traded company to take advantage of JOBS Act rules allowing avoidance of Sarbanes–Oxley Act accounting standards?

Created by LavaBaron (talk). Self nominated at 05:28, 17 January 2015 (UTC).

• Accounting standards -- that should get a million clicks. EEng (talk) 01:44, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

It will get at least 34. No, but seriously, the SOX accounting standards were put in place in the early 2000s in the aftermath of the Enron and Worldcom scandals to keep publicly traded companies cooking their books and encourage greater management accountability to shareholders. This was the first time since they were imposed that a public company in the U.S. has been allowed to avoid adopting them. LavaBaron (talk) 23:37, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

• Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:11, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

• I believe that LavaBaron has omitted the word "from" from the above statement! :) To get back to the nomination, the article is new enough and long enough. One of the two sources for the hook is dead but the other supports it. The article is about a publicly-traded company and I found it sufficiently non-promotional to be considered neutral. I did not detect any close paraphrasing. The hook is unexciting but is probably the best on offer. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:30, 21 February 2015 (UTC)