Talk:N.S. Bienstock

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Possible Merger[edit]

Hello. I work for Executive Writing, and as part of my consultancy, I work with United Talent Agency. I am hoping someone will be willing to take a look at the N.S. Bienstock page to help determine if it should be merged to direct readers to the United Talent Agency page. United Talent Agency’s acquisition of N.S. Bienstock was widely reported in the press when it occurred in early 2014. This acquisition is already referenced and sourced on the United Talent Agency page. You can see coverage of the initial acquisition here. THE N.S. Bienstock brand has since retired and is known now as UTA News & Broadcasting. This, too, is noted on the UTA page. Additionally, the N.S. Bienstock brand retirement can be documented by the fact that the entity no longer has an independent website. I believe the N.S. Bienstock page should be merged and simply refer readers to the United Talent Agency page, which already reflects the retirement of the NSB/shift to UTA News & Broadcast, but am looking for guidance from editors.

I believe I've disclosed my conflict of interest appropriately. Thank you in advance for your help. EWChristine (talk) 21:59, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. Even if the company was acquired by UTA, this still has value as an encyclopedia article. I'm a bit confused if UTA simply renamed the company as UTA News and Broadcasting or shut down the company. If they just renamed the company, then you could follow the process at requested moves to suggest a change to the name of the page. Zoozaz1 (talk) 17:10, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Update to reflect Acquisition[edit]

I work for Executive Writing, and as part of my consultancy, I work with United Talent Agency. I am hoping an editor would be willing to change the N.S. Bienstock page to reflect that the company was acquired by United Talent Agency in 2014, which can be sourced here [[1]]. I would suggest putting the article in past tense to recognize that N.S. Bienstock is no longer a company and has been folded into UTA. Additionally, the page has some grammatical errors that an editor might be interested in reviewing. I will not make any changes to the page. Thank you.EWChristine (talk) 18:32, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Partially done The merger was added to the article, but if the company was simply renamed by UTA I don't see a need for past tense, although a page move may be in order. Zoozaz1 (talk) 17:10, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Zoozaz1: Thank you for your response. Would you be willing to update the language throughout the article to past tense? For example, "N.S. Bienstock, Inc. was a large television talent agency in the United States, representing more than 600 television personalities." I appreciate your willingness to help. EWChristine (talk) 18:06, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]