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[edit] Software isn't industry
software is part of the service sector and thus not part of "industry", it is also not industrial produces but authored. Software is "licensed" to be used. —145.254.158.128
^ Software may be part of the service sector, but development and licensing of software is still an industry. "Industry" includes services.
- bob dogg
[edit] "Modern misusage of the word"
I've commented out the following two paragraphs, added by anonymous user 67.119.158.54 a bit over a month ago:
- Industry is commonly understood as business, population and workforce. With no doubt, industries means more than one industry. Despite this common sense, the 21st Century youth generation has mistaken the word as a substitute for clothing company. Possibly inspired by big name companies like World Industries and Skin Industries, which are neither technically industries in the original sense of the word.
- Today many small t-shirt labels borrow the word for their names, knowing their company is composed of less than 10 teenagers, hardly an industry, let alone industries.
They're rather poorly-written and unclear, they read like a whiny old man ("21st Century youth generation"?), and they generally seem to have no point. —Simetrical (talk) 02:33, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Marxism?
Why is so much prominence given to Marxism in this article? Michael Hardy 00:47, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Why is interest given to any kind of taxes or government anywhere? Because there's a lot of losers in all societies, and nobody has the guts to get tough on them and tell them to take responsibility and stop whining.--Jerryseinfeld 20:29, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Data?
Where's the industry data? What's all the reported income statements and balance sheets revenue and assets, by industry? Or at least the Fortune 500 by industry and their revenue, employees, earnings, assets and so on.--Jerryseinfeld 20:28, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
One thing I noticed was that Yahoo! use the Reuters industry categorization. Yahoo! include market cap, so to figure out the revenue of a category take market cap from Yahoo! and p/s from Reuters. Consumer Financial Services: Market Capitalization: 250B, P/Sales (ttm) 2.51. So the annual revenue is 250/2.51 billion.
Finance
- Consumer Financial Services - revenue: 100 billion (250/2.51)
[edit] I need a census of industries of the southeast region!
Does any one know where to find one?
Sure, this is a good source: http://www.ecanned.com/
[edit] cleanup?
Should this article have a cleanup tag? 59.93.128.33 06:10, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Upper right pic
I dunno how to fix this, but there is a problem with the picture in the upper right over lapping the text.
[edit] Merge discussion
I suggest that all of the parts that say "Main article:" should be merged into this article, seeing as none of them are very large and it seems it would be better to have all the info on one page. ILovePlankton 22:23, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Intro edit
The intro needs severe revision. For instance, this paragraph:
"Without industries we would not have the opportunity to enjoy the goods we have today. The industries just came along as discoveries from scientists such as Newton and Einstein made improvements to the modern world making manufacturing a reality. Industries are linked to each other and that is why we see the beauty of the world as it is today."
It has an undeniable pro-industry bias. In addition, it is vauge and says little that is concrete about industry. (Yes, industries create many goods, but who enjoys these "goods"? What are the goods in the first place? And how exactly is "the beauty of the world" related to indrustry?) It and the rest of the intro need severe revamping, especially in relation to WP:NPOV. I am not arguing that pro-industry opinion should not be covered. However, it should be labelled as such, and put in a section labelled "Opinion on industry", with opposing opinions given coverage as well.
I've cleaned up part of the intro so it's not POV, but it still jumps around a bit and contains parts that might be repeated twice. Sorry about that. I'm not even sure what to do with these and other problems with it, so I'm marking it with the Cleanup tag. As always in Wikipedia, feel free to put anything back in that you think was stronger or more accurate in the previous draft. I make as many mistakes as anyone. Kennard2 00:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- Also, I left a couple minor edits that I labelled as "dummy edits" because I thought those were edits to correct small mistakes right after saving that page. My bad. Kennard2 00:34, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Portal
It's my thought that the "Industry" article should be a portal leading to information regarding many different industries etc. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by OneRyt (talk • contribs) 18:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
