There's almost certainly a large enough number of people googling "Contoso" to merit a wikipedia page on its own. Sort of a microsoft-specific (active directory training material, etc) version of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

Wikipedia’s bar for culturally relevant is wildly inconsistent. In this case, though, there are tons of external references to these names so it’s easy to establish “relevance” as guidelines dictate.

The page shows up as the top entry if you Google "Contoso". The second is Microsoft's own explanation of what Contoso is. I think that's the perfect explanation if you're trying to figure out what "Contoso" is in all of the random .NET and MS related examples are.

Seems like you answered your own question.

Can you explain? Just because the HN crowd finds something interesting, that doesn't automatically qualify it for a wikipedia page.

Per the flag at the top of the Wikipedia page, somebody agrees with you:

> The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. (July 2018)

As a relative outsider to the editing process who nonetheless reads a lot of Wikipedia, "notability" seems to be unevenly judged across domains.

You can search for the companies online and find interesting things, like this enterprise database schema for AdventureWorks Cycles: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=438...