Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Business

Stemilt Growers

I work for Stemilt Growers (tree fruit company in Washington) and would like to create a page about the company's history. Similar companies like Sunkist and Dole have been added on Wikipedia. Please consider this factual article about Stemilt User:BBrue/StemiltGrowers BBrue (talk) 00:50, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Move

Ok, it appears that everything is set. I archived the last talk page to archives number 4. --Patrick (talk) 22:41, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Nice work. II | (t - c) 21:23, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Categories

Have you guys set up your Categories. The category Category:WikiProject Business articles by priority clearly exists, but when I click on the categories in the column and row headings of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Business and economics articles by quality statistics they are not working and looking at Talk:Walter O'Malley something is wrong with Category:Unassessed-priority WikiProject Business articles.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:19, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tony. The project's name was just changed and I missed the cat. Thanks for pointing that out. Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Business and economics articles by quality statistics is now defunct. Hopefully the bot will be updating Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject Business articles by quality statistics in the future. Thanks --Patrick (talk) 21:20, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

MarketLeverage

I am the Marketing Communications Specialist for MarketLeverage. I have tried to post an article about the company, but now I see that it could be considered advertising or a conflict of interest. I see that other affiliate networks like Clickbooth and Hydra LLC have been included on Wikipedia. Please consider my article below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mlrebecca/New_article Mlrebecca (talk) 20:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC)ML Rebecca 8/5/2008

I responded at your talk page. --Patrick (talk) 21:12, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Bank of China (Hong Kong) FAR

Bank of China (Hong Kong) has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:06, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Lifestyle Communities

I am a Marketing Project Manager at "Lifestyle Communities". I have tried posting an article for Lifestyle Communities, but it has been deleted due to 'blatant advertising' and I believe conflict of interest. Please consider my article and help me to get it posted. Thanks! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EmRitter/LC EmRitter (talk) 17:46, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Lifestyle Communities

I posted here at the beginning of this week and haven't heard anything back regarding my article. Please let me know if I am not posting on the correct Project page or if I need to go about getting my article posted in another way. Thanks! EmRitter (talk) 20:38, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Lost in translation

Tornel is labored with atrocious translation, such as,

"When these enterpises closed, put it beards to soak and still the bussines together specialization in the niche sales to retail to vehicles and trucks. This movement it allows still force in the market."

I'd fix it, if I had more than the vaguest notion of what it's supposed to mean. I'm cross posting this hoping somebody with Spanish & decent sources can address it. TREKphiler ^{hit me ♠} 12:05, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

I've just fixed that paragraph -- it was badly translated and a really old colloquialistic phrase - beards to soak, indeed! I also cleaned up the overall article, although it still needs citations and likely more material deleted or replaced to improve neutral POV. WmLawson (talk) 16:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Is Universal Product Code in your project's scope?

An IP user has recently added your project's banner to Talk:Universal Product Code, along with several others and other talk page banners. If this article is really in your project's scope, please rate it; otherwise please remove the banner. Thanks! Anomie⚔ 21:25, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, i did an assessment on it. --Patrick (talk) 23:21, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Definitely belongs in Business; probably not in Economics though, as was discussed at WT:ECON. Gary King (talk) 18:02, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Business and economics

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7. We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations. A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible. We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:31, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Business and economics portal

Just a friendly reminder that if you come across any good articles that deserve to be recognized, please suggest them at suggestion page. The same goes for images, economies, and quotes. Thanks! --Patrick (talk) 03:20, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

It's nice to know that the portal is still actively maintained :) Gary King (talk) 18:00, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I nominated Bank run for next month, as it's timely. Also please see the next section. Eubulides (talk) 19:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Bank run importance?

A reader wrote in Talk:Bank run #"High" importance nomination, "this article should be nominated for HIGH importance, in consideration of a US$17 Billion dollar run on Washington Mutual Bank forcing the hand of federal regulators to move on the largest bank bailout in US history." I've edited Bank run so I shouldn't act on this suggestion, and I'm forwarding it here. Eubulides (talk) 19:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I moved it to WikiProject Finance and gave it Top importance. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 11:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Dummy corporation / Shell (corporation): Merge? (Also need cites)

Would there be any point in merging Dummy corporation and Shell (corporation) (and if we do, under which name?)
Also, both of these articles are tagged "article does not cite any references or sources".
-- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 13:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for WikiProject Business

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7. We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations. A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible. We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection before December 2008, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 16:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Hemofarm Group

This leading Serbian pharmaceutical company article is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hemofarm Group. Other input is welcome. -- Banjeboi 22:43, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Galenika

This leading Serbian pharmaceutical company article is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Galenika (company). Other input is welcome. -- Banjeboi 23:01, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Digital Realty Trust - Company Article

FULL DISCLOSURE: I am an employee of the company mentioned in this article. I believe that the company should have a Wikipedia page based upon its notability, therefore, I am trying to follow all guidelines including those involving conflict of interest, notability and the processes set up for when conflict of interest may be an issue. The guidelines I am following are outlined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Business#I_think_my_company_deserves_an_article_on_Wikipedia_but_none_exists._What_can_I_do.3F I am looking for feedback on the draft article to make certain that it conforms to all policies. The draft article is located here in one of my user sub pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dlrwebmaster/Digital_Realty_Trust I'd appreciate your review so that a neutral point of view is truly expressed. Thanks in advance. Dlrwebmaster (talk) 19:26, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Could you identify for us which of your footnotes show significant coverage from reliable sources? Some are only background info, and the Barrons link I tried is dead, so I am afraid that reviewers (including me) won't click all 12 hoping to find some good news. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 08:30, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad you brought that up. You're right, most of the coverage I included in the reference list were just that: references. I have the articles listed below that I think are our most significant coverage, but I wasn't certain how to work them into the article as 'significant coverage' AND remain neutral point of view at the same time.

• Wall Street & Technology – "Tips for Datacenter Efficiency"
  • http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/blog/archives/2008/06/tips_for_data_c.html
• InfoWorld – "2008 InfoWorld CTO 25: Jim Smith, Digital Realty Trust"
  • http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/02/23FE-cto25-smith_1.html
• ComputerWorld – “Digital Realty Mines Old Building and Gets LEED Gold"
  • http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9080780

Of the 15 references in the article already, here are three that I would consider 'coverage' rather than just a reference:

• Datacenterknowledge.com - "The Industrialization of Data Centers"
  • http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/08/28/the-industrialization-of-data-centers/
• Datacentremanagement.com - "DRT goes down the metrics route "
  • http://datacentremanagement.com/power-management-news-79/703-drt-goes-down-the-metrics-route.html
• InfoWorld - "Green 15" Award
  • http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/22/17FE-green-15-2008-index_1.html

Other mentions and coverage I have (worth viewing) are listed here:

• New York Times – "Demand for Data Puts Engineers in Spotlight"
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/technology/17data.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1214599402-t/Iiba/5KIFzvIPcmekSzw
• International Business Times - "Market Spotlight: Data Center REITs"
  • http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080408/market-spotlight-data-center-reits.htm

Please let me know if I can assist further. Dlrwebmaster (talk) 14:18, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I wish other employees and service providers were so thoughtful when they feel that Wikipedia deserves an article about their company.

I am afraid not familiar with a couple of those publishers, but that is probably my own weakness. As far as researching them is concerned, perhaps others will beat me to it, but I did want to jump in today and thank you for paying attention to the concern this worldwide volunteer community has for the integrity of the encyclopedia.

--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:38, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Your comments are much appreciated. Is there anything I should be doing right now for you? Dlrwebmaster (talk) 14:04, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I've edited and added this article in. Note that most of your draft contained far too much promotional content that does not provide neutral POV - I removed that material and attempted to make it much more encyclopedic. From the reference citations, I believe the company is sufficiently notable to merit a Wikipedia article, but the article could still use additional citations and likely a bit more editing down to make it appropriately neutral. WmLawson (talk) 17:48, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Mercantilism

Mercantilism has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24_[c] 05:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I have responded. Gary King (talk) 05:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Software Engineering vs Marketing neutrality dispute

I have been disputing that there is more marketing involvement in software development than what appears to be represented on wikipedia for 2 years now. I started an article on wikipedia which was disputed upon creation, but was accepted for 2 years after the compromise until now. I could use some help here from what appears to be WP:DE trivializing marketing involvement in software development. The software engineer after being rebuked by a moderator for WP:DE is now disputing the neutrality of the page as it is. I've made my case here:Talk:Software development#Neutrality dispute. Your support would be appreciated. Oicumayberight (talk) 19:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Business and economics portal

Just a friendly reminder that if you come across any good economics or business articles that deserve to be recognize, please suggest them at suggestion page. The same goes for images, economies, and quotes. Thanks! --Patrick (talk) 13:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Business profiles - paypoint plc

Hi there, I work for an agency and I was looking to create an profile page about one of my client's business. Paypoint plc which owns paypoint.net (the business in question) currently has a profile page, so I was looking to add a paragraph about companies owned by Paypoint plc and from there add a link to a paypoint.net profile page. Is this the best way to do it? If not what would you recommend? I look for forward to your comments. Thanks in advance, Dina Jones. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dina Jones (talk • contribs) 17:46, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Indian Railways at FAR

Indian Railways has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured quality. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:59, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Fortune (magazine), A-Class, really?

I'm not a member of this Wikiproject but I was surprised to find this rated A-class. — Realist² 15:53, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Oxygen bar - request for other views

Oxygen bar, an article within the scope of your project has been completely re-written as an advert (in my opinion). I have reverted once, but User:Oxygeninc has now reverted back to their promotional version. I have explained my views on the talk page and requested discussion, but this SPA has not left a single comment, nor edit summary. Any third-party view on the relative merits of the two versions would be appreciated. Thanks --RexxS (talk) 23:32, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Lists of non-notable companies

Does any editor here believe that we should compile lists of non-notable companies? For example, would it be useful to list all the subsidiary and associated companies that make up theList of assets owned by General Electric? The reason I ask because there is a proposal at WT:FICT#LISTS suggesting that non-notable topics should be assembled in lists instead of their own individual articles. --Gavin Collins (talk) 15:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I haven't come across any lists like that. There are certainly lists with non-notable companies on them, but none with just them. The problem is that it would be just too massive to maintain. Cheers --Patrick (talk) 16:06, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Requests for assessment

Where should one posta request to have an article's quality re-assessed? Trupial (talk) 21:50, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

This place is a good enough place. What is the article? I'll take a look. --Patrick (talk) 22:14, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

The article is "employer branding". Thanks for looking. Trupial (talk) 05:03, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I marked it as stub class. It certainly should not have been a b class article. --Patrick (talk) 05:54, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I updated the stub on employer branding to reflect an academic rather than commercial defintion. HRprof (talk) 15:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)hrprof

History of marketing

Dear editors, I began to work on the History of marketing and proposed a new outline for it. I welcome the participation of experts and others interested in the field. The idea is to write this article and include a summary in the main marketing article, as a historical overview is missing. Cheers, Editor br (talk) 17:48, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Article on mid-2000's AIG scandal?

Is the scandal notable enough to warrant its own article? If not, how much additional information about the scandal, if any, should be added to the main AIG article? I appreciate any input. --Bowlhover (talk) 21:36, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Editing the article Entrepreneurial mindset

Hi editors. I would welcome your contribution to this difficult article. The main author Max Senges has contributed much of the material derived mainly from his own personal research. Without the contribution of other editors to present a conscise article, it reads as an academic paper. I urge others to discuss how the editing might be tackled. —F^red11⁴ 06:08, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Stock History

Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information notes that "For publicly-held companies, a long term stock history (ideally a total shareholder return line including dividends), possibly shown relative to the industry benchmark appropriate to the company's line of business, would not be out of place." However, the guideline doesn't offer any guidance on formatting this type of information? And if its included, would it reduce the chances of an article being GA or FA level if information isn't available for every year? I've overhauled Hershey Creamery Company, greatly expanding it, and am working on taking it up to GA or FA. I can get the stock history information for 1936-1964 at the least, but not sure how to put it in the article, and whether I should make the effort if information after 1964 is more spotty? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 06:14, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Durvexity

Hi, I think this might be the best place to ask if someone could look at the Durvexity article. I may well be wrong, but the word seems only to be in use on Wikipedia in the article itself, articles on Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis of 2008. Appearances outside Wikipedia are either Wikipedia mirrors or articles that quote Wikipedia articles. Just looking for a second opinion. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 22:14, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Cost externalization aka unearned profits

The current definition in Wikipedia is so corporate friendly that it is incorrect. The current definition in its one line is fairly correct but poorly worded while the breakdown of definitions for marketplace, B2B and B2C are very misleading and biased to better coverage for a terrible corporate practice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.146.84 (talk) 20:01, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Altium Limited - Company Article

FULL DISCLOSURE: I am an employee of the company mentioned in this article. I have recently come across the Altium Limited stub by the WikiProject Business group. This stub is a great introduction to Altium, however I was hoping to extend this article to include some of the organisation’s background and history. I would also like to update the 'links' section with new articles and to list more items in the 'products' section.
However, I am an employee of Altium and I fully understand my conflict of interest. Therefore I am trying comply to the following guidelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Business#I_think_my_company_deserves_an_article_on_Wikipedia_but_none_exists._What_can_I_do.3F
To make sure I comply with these policies and remain neutral, I would greatly appreciate if this group could review my article. The draft is located here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WikiWriter2345/Altium_draft
I appreciate your help and I look forward to hearing your feedback.
Kind regards (WikiWriter2345 (talk) 04:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)).

Can someone remove the Biflation article please.

Can someone remove it immediately or tag it for references, etc. It has many mistakes. I may be original research which I applaud, but, it needs a lot of work before it can even be looked at as being maybe something in it. PennySeven (talk) 14:08, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Bad bank

I've been hearing this term thrown about a lot... I think it could use an article, but this is outside my area of expertise. Anyone wanna take a stab at it? Here are the Google news results for "bad bank": http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&q=%22bad%20bank%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn ... Swedish banking rescue could be used as an example. –xeno (talk) 15:57, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of all lists of businesses by geographic region

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of companies of the Bahamas. An AfD nominator proposes to delete all lists of businesses by geographic region because WP:NOTDIR. 76.66.196.229 (talk) 11:27, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Methodology

Hi, I just wanted to draw attention to this unimproved article. ~ R.T.G 14:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Bob Farrell (motivational speaker)

Please help deorphan this. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 05:32, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Wikiproject Accounting

Is anyone interested in creating a wikiproject accounting?Smallman12q (talk) 14:33, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

I have started Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics/Accountancy task force, but the response so far has not been great. I will send you an invite. --Gavin Collins (talk) 14:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

How does this relate to WikiProject Companies?

In tagging railroad articles, I've seen the occasional tag for one of these projects. Which, if either, belongs? (My personal belief is that neither really does, since WikiProject Trains is de facto a subproject of both, but I'd like to hear what you think.) --NE2 00:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

If nobody responds, I will remove business and companies tags from railroad article talk pages. --NE2 10:20, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

rate of return

The article rate of return has been assessed. The assessment template says I will see a discussion about that here. There is not one. The article has therefore been assessed unilaterally, without discussion, without public evaluation, and without constructive criticism. I have tagged the article's talk page appropriately. Paul Beardsell (talk) 08:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

holding period return

Similarly for this article. Paul Beardsell (talk) 08:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

This is plainly ridiculous. It's the artist vs the critic. except all we get here at WP is the number of stars, the critic is too lazy to even make a critique and does not even sign his name. Shame on him. Paul Beardsell (talk) 08:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

tax haven

And again. Paul Beardsell (talk) 09:19, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't take it personally. Have read of WP:Unsigned which shows how to insert the editor's signature which has been omitted. --Gavin Collins (talk) 13:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Henri Fayol and the Administrative theory

Hi, I have given a boost to this page. :-) But my fluency in English having some weaknesses, would any better English-reader mind to drop an eye at it please?

There is something interesting about this page: The initial theory was written in French and quite "cheaply" translated into English in 1930 by John A. Coubrough. The 2nd translation in 1961 by Constance Storrs was much better. But some French words translate hardly into English (état-major, prévoyance, dévouement, ...) some are ambiguous (commandement, contrôle, agent, entreprise) and, to add some fun, Fayol was happy to use metaphors (corps social, organs, ...) which is, trust me, not uncommon for self-made bosses of that time.
And possibly the worse is that nobody thought that French people may have a different culture than American people, possibly influencing their standards of management.
Therefore shall Wikipedia stick to the interpretations made by the Americans? Or to present the original Thoughts of Fayol like "any" French-reader would understand them.

-- Silwilhith (talk) 19:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

His Master's Voice trademark: Within the scope?

Hello, I am the guy that proposed the requested move of HMV --> His Master's Voice. Well, some guy who probably thought that the His Master's Voice trademark (you know, the dog listening to a phonograph) should be mostly associated with HMV Group, the music retailer that's one of the companies that use the trademark, added WikiProject Companies and WikiProject Business tags to the talk page of the article. I removed the Companies one, as the article is about the painting not the HMV Group music retail chain, I almost removed the Business tag, but I didn't and decided to bring it up here as I do not know if trademarks are within the scope of this WikiProject. Articles should ot be tagged for a WikiProject if the article isn't within the scope of that WikiProject, right?

--[|Retro00064 | (talk/contribs) |] 05:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, with no answer from anyone, I'm removing the tag from the article's talk page. [|Retro00064|☎talk|✍contribs|] 23:50, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts

This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the display=none parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.

Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:52, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

What is Debenture and secured creditor?

Difference between debenture holder and secured creditor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.15.32 (talk) 13:58, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

A debenture is a term for a loan that is usually issued by a company (e.g. a Corporate bond). A debenture can be secured against collateral such as property, or unsecured. A secured creditor can be a debenture holder, but could also include holders of some other form of debt, such as a bank loan or other credit facility. --Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 22:04, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Needing Re-Assessment

Hello there. I made some gigantic changes to the Chuck E. Cheese article, and I'm looking for someone to reassess it. I tried submitting it to the Food & Drink Project, but it seems they're either ignoring me or they're inactive/dead. I've been trying to get one for a while.

Thanks!  Dylanlip  (talk) 17:37, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Cross-selling versus Up-selling.

I would like to discuss the content of two Wikipedia articles: "Cross-selling" and "Up-selling":

In my experience, up-selling is when a company tries to sell a more expensive product to the client. For example, the client wants a drink, and the restaurant employee tries to sell a hamburger. The hamburger is more expensive than the drink.

Now, cross-selling is when a company tries to sell a product that is as expensive or less expensive than the product the client is actually buying. For example, the client wants a drink, and the restaurant employee tries to sell a fried potatoes supply. The fried potatoes supply is less expensive than the drink.

Finally, companies combine cross-selling and up-selling in the following manner: First they try to up-sell, offering a more expensive product to the client. If the client refuses this offer then the company tries to cross-sell, offering a product with a similar price or a smaller price. This combined technique allows companies to greatly increase their sales.

This approach of cross-selling and up-selling is not included in the Wikipedia articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up-selling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-selling

It should be included!

Best regards,

Luis R. Villegas H. Mexico. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LuisVillegas (talk • contribs) 04:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

ePayments Testing and Simulation

There is an entire industry of companies that support banking institutions by providing testing and simulation products and services. While Wikipedia presently has topics on Banking technology, Electronic commerce, and Payment system, there is no mention of how these institutions provide reliable systems. The creation of software that tests and simulates financial transactions is a whole area that we could start creating pages for. I (Bill.albing) would like to help.

Companies in this industry include Paragon Application Systems, Level Four, Lexcel, ACI Worldwide, Callis, Galitt, CFG, ICC, Iliad, Integri, and others. Bill.albing (talk) 18:45, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Joseph-Armand Bombardier

Joseph-Armand Bombardier was requested to be speedily deleted, then proposed for deletion. I have removed the PROD request. 76.66.193.69 (talk) 04:46, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Third Culture Parents

I could not agree more regarding TCKs as I raised four of them overseas; two of them were born overseas and two were under the age of two when they moved out of the US. And, yes, they definitely had problems adjusting to life in their passport country. Today one of them teaches overseas in an American International School, one lives in Hawaii, another works out of the country and one is with the State Dept. Yes, TCKs have home counry cultural problems, but so do the parents! I found, and still do, that I have not much in common with a good many people I encountered when we moved back to the States after over 33 years out. Needless to say, I am a lot more tolerant, much better read, more up on current affairs and open to new ideas than most of my neighbors. It is hard not to look like a know-it-all and basically, they just don't want to hear about your life out of the country. If I can help in any way in any studies being done on this subject, either for ATCKs or TCPs (Third Culture Parents) I should love to help.

I have been back in the US for 23 years and still miss southeast asia.

Nonya besar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nonya besar (talk • contribs) 19:44, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

IMHO a LOT of overlap on outsourcing and offshoring

We have what I would call a LOT of separate articles on outsourcing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=outsourcing&fulltext=Search ) and offshoring ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=offshoring&ns0=1&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=Search&fulltext=Search ).

• As far as I can tell, most of them aren't templated as part of WikiProject Business. We need to do this.

• There seems to be a lot of overlap. We really should go through these and merge them as appropriate.

I won't be doing this myself. Thanks. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 14:43, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

I would merge into "Outsourcing" - offshoring is a less common term, and before I read the Wiki article I would have assumed it was related to moving domicile to tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda etc - when I used the term "offshore" in business, that is what I mean. 193.133.69.162 (talk) 10:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Article template creates duplicate discussion page?

I think there may a problem with the template

On Talk:Hedge_fund this template shows a link to a not-yet-defined discussion subpage Talk:Hedge_fund/Comments

This may just be a bug. If not it suggests having a discussion pages for project business editors that is separate from the one for all other editors. Is this a good idea? Servalo (talk) 10:22, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

It's supposed to work that way, see: Category:WikiProject Business articles with comments. --Funandtrvl (talk) 18:54, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Poor management succeeding!

Good management, as taught to me 30 years ago requuired that equal concern for people and mission was critical to long term success. I have been involved in a 5 year experiment where there is no concern for the people and total concern for the mission. The result has been significant improvement in the organization's performance. Is 5 years too short a time period to expect a drop off, as the theory suggests, or is the theory just wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.80.147.214 (talk) 00:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)