Talk:Washington Mutual

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Someone accidently deleted most of the article

Contents 1 Unexplained deletion of my photo by Citiman 2 Switch 3 WAMU 4 Is this an ad?

[edit] Unexplained deletion of my photo by Citiman

I've put it back; the deletion was most impolite. In the future, please discuss here first before you go around deleting other people's photos, especially well-done ones. It's not like it was one of those bad photos shot on an overcast day or into the sun or something. --Coolcaesar 07:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

You may want to add something about WAMU free checking and its cool commercials and features. Just an idea.

[edit] Switch

Can anyone talk about why they switched from the usual Blue visa debit/credit cards to the Gold Mastercards?

The answer to that is Visa had a number of security problems earlier that year and Washington Mutual decided to switch to mastercard not only for security purposes, but to also bring a fresh look into the new Wamu Free Checking.

[edit] WAMU

Someone redirected WAMU (the radio station in Washington DC) to Washington Mutual. Initially this isn't a bad thing, since WAMU is Washington Mutual's NYSE code, but it's also the only name for the radio station, WAMU. I cannot access the radio station now. See my comments on the talk page for redirections and WAMU:

WAMU is the only name American University's radio station goes by. By redirecting that name exclusively to Washington Mutual, users cannot access the information they want, such as when I went looking for WAMU (the readio station) in Wikipedia. Denying users access to the information they seek does not make finding information any easier. Instead, it goes against Wikipedia's original aim, and any database's aim for that matter. In a Google search, WAMU as a radio station is displayed second, which suggests that at least by the standard of online bibliometrics, American University's radio station is reasonably well searched. At the very least, users should be directed to a page from which to choose their ultimate destination. Destitute 06:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I just looked into Alexa.com, which measures web traffic, which is not a very good indicator of network analysis. Bibliometrics, the standard used for deciding the rank of webpages in an Internet search is a far better gauge of information control. Destitute 06:42, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I would add too that WAMU is the 5th highest rated Public Radio Station in the country, as well as the higest rated shows in DC [1]. What's more, the person deleted the radio station article altogether! Destitute 07:02, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is this an ad?

I'm not going to go through and edit right now, but the tone of parts of this article strike me as if they were written by the WaMu public relations staff. It talks about how unique and friendly the "Occasio" branches are. It claims that people across the United States are excited that the company is calling itself WaMu. It touts the advantages of their free chacking.

I think this could probably use some work. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Not my leg (talk • contribs) 19:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

Amen to that Sagittarian Milky Way 21:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

i chopped out the bit about people being excited about the name change to wamu since it was uncited and silly.Harlock jds 01:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)