Talk:Black-owned business

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 January 2021 and 6 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Crlesieur, DylanWhite99, Pdube2021, Muddin11, Natreysha.

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Move discussion in progress

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How has social media influenced the visibility of African-American businesses in the 21st century? AlJen23 (talk) 22:17, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

When did African-American owned businesses receive more validity? AlJen23 (talk) 22:21, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Reliable Sources Policy

There is not one citation in the first four paragraphs of this article. There is no way to verify that any part of the introduction of this article is from reliable sources and it does not make clear what this article is in reference too. Is this article about the history of African American businesses? Does not the history of African American businesses begin in both Africa and the Americas? Would not African American history books serve as a good source of information about African American businesses?

softwaretestwriter (talk) 22:31, 17 January 2021 (UTC) softwaretestwriter

Propose for deletion "originally based in music and sports"

This statement is not supported by any sources. There were many black owned businesses that were not based in music and sports such as black owned banks and farms that were around long before the 21st century. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NmuoMmiri (talk • contribs) 22:16, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

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The last sentence of the 1st paragraph of the section "The 21st Century" is ❝The internet enabled black-owned businesses such as McBride Sisters Wine Company to become visible and reach a larger market than would have been possible pre-internet.❞ this seems like an advertisement for this company which, upon cursory glance does not owe its success to online marketing nor is it an early example of a black owned Business being successful for online activity, according to the linked article only first saw large scale success in 2020…. 2600:6C56:6DF0:8150:B936:A803:2B31:EC16 (talk) 11:54, 11 March 2023 (UTC) garymericanoaintgotawikiaccount

Requested move 6 June 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 19:19, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

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Black-owned businesses → Black-owned business – Per WP:PLURAL. Just listing it here in case there's some issue I'm not seeing. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:53, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Weak oppose: It seems like this article is not about a black-owned business, or even black-owned businesses in general; on its own, a black-owned business is unremarkable and there is nothing for an article to say about it that isn't described by its name. This article is about black-owned businesses as a class of things: their collective origin, their collective effect on the economy, etc. Put another way, the single thing this article is about is not "the black-owned business", it is the collective phenomenon of black-owned businesses. As such it is an exception to WP:PLURAL. WPscatter ^t/_c 06:22, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

@Wpscatter: Family business is not family businesses. State-owned enterprise is not state-owned enterprises. The list goes on and on and appears to totally disprove your point here. I don't see how "black-owned businesses" is an exception. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 10:57, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

@Zxcvbnm: I don't think those things do disprove my point. Most things in the family business article can apply to an individual family business. Likewise for state-owned enterprise. That is clearly not the case in this article and I continue to believe it's about a group of things and thus is an exception to the guideline.

I don't feel incredibly strongly to be fair, and I've edited my vote to reflect that. WPscatter ^t/_c 13:59, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

• Support per WP:PLURAL. Rule of thumb: if you're not

A)listing every single instance of the thing in question,

B)talking about the totality of the thing in question rather than any of its parts, or

C)talking about a word that's essentially never used in the singular

then it should be a singular title. Red Slash 22:39, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.