Talk:MBNA

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 10:52, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

template placed by User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 13:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

How about moving it to MBNA Corporation? That seems to be what they call themselves (in the fine print anyways). Ewlyahoocom 16:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

While it sounds odd, I agree and think MBNA Corporation is the best move as it's what is stated in the fine print. My other recomendation would be MBNA America but I bet that can be easily confused wtih Bank of America. --JayKay 03:25, 9 May 2006 (UTC) Disregaurd, see my comments below.

Support Even without exactly the proposed move, bank should be lowercase. I don't support gratuitous additions of "Corporation" or "Company" to the ends of titles. (Neither does Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Companies.) --Davidstrauss 10:08, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Support I know I posted earlier but the more I think of it, it should be lowercase bank at the end of it. Besides, I dont think the MBNA Corporation technically exsists as their stock symbol isn't in existence anymore. --JayKay 13:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Consequences

The {{otheruses}} template would need to be added to MBNA after the move to provide cross-reference to MBNA (disambiguation). MBNA (Bank) would, after the move, redirect to MBNA; this redirect could be placed on WP:RFD as an unnecessary convenience. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 13:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Sorry to be picky but MBNA is not and never was an acronym - it was an abbrevation.

nah, leave it as it is

Agreed, leave it, no one will know to go to Bank of America after the name is gone.

I agree to leave it as well. I was actually surprised and delighted to find a reference to MBNA in here as that is my MC bank, even though I am of the Canadian version of MBNA.

I've taken out the merge suggestion. Other companies that have been bought out generally keep their entries in the encyclopedia, as I think they should. Someone looking for info on MBNA probably wants a little more depth on the history of that company than someone who goes to the main B of A article. --dreish~talk 20:33, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

'Politics' material removed but not put here

The following passage was removed from the article by User:71.193.190.213 with the edit summary "Goes in talk", but it did not appear here: 'MBNA is the bank of Working Assets, a progressive "leftist" credit card company that donates to greenpeace and many other peace and environmental groups. This entry on politics needs to be more fully researched.' User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

You say "the name MBNA is no longer an acronym." I just got a bill from MBNA Canada, so the name exists.

Random note: I know someone who was working for MBNA right before it went under. The article (in my opinion, anyway) seems to imply that MBNA employees were paid well in general, but, the base salary was $24K---and that required a college degree! They would fire people left and right for not being efficient enough; employees were heavily overworked. I mean, maybe this isn't the best way or best place to mention it... but I'm just saying the article seems to put a positive slant on the job opportunities there... I dunno. os 01:48, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

not true. the starting salary was 24k, but there was no college degree requirement. there were shift differentials from 6%-15% and there were monthly and quarterly bonuses. they did not fire people left and right for not meeting standard. rarely was anyone fired. in fact in my four years there they fired just two of my coworkers and they were useless anyway. nobody was "heavily overworked". all you had to do was show up and do your job. Keltik31 17:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

NPOV

I added the NPOV template because that section of the article states these practices as facts, without providing any kind of source or specific information. I'm not necessarily disputing the contents of the section, but I am disputing the way it is presented. When I get some time in the next few weeks, I'll try to work on it, but if someone else wants to do so comment, it's welcomed. !jim 03:28, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Since the PBS Special aired, MNBA (Now FIA Card Services) discloses on their contracts all things mentioned in the PBS special. References and links were included in the addition, facts have been checked. The approach may be a little biased since I too was burned by their unfair practices. Any suggestions about how to get the message out about MBNA / FIA Card Services and companies like that without sounding biased is quite welcomed. I could tone it down a bit.

I tried to clear this section up a bit. I didn't remove the NPOV marker, if you feel this is up to standards, please feel free to do so. Jeffcarrdotinfo 17:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Football not Politics

It's true that Randy Lerner owns the American football team the Cleveland Browns and the English football (also known as soccer) club Aston Villa but what does that have to do with politics? Why is this information in that section? 75.33.80.103 07:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

MBNA- Maryland Bank National Association. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.251.167.182 (talk) 15:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

it was not a merger

mbna and banf of america did not merge, mbna was aquired but they dont like to use such a word because in evokes fear. mbna used lots of fear words. for example, an absence was called an "occurrance" and there was also something called a "failure" when something went wrong and management needed someone else to blame.