Talk:Burger King

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Article milestones Date Process Result October 21, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed October 24, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed November 11, 2007 Good article nominee Listed March 12, 2008 Peer review Reviewed Current Status: Good article

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This discussion board is for the main article, Burger King. If you wish to post a comment about another Burger King related topic, please see one of the associated articles: For posts concerning its franchisees, please go to the Burger King franchises talk page. For posts concerning its legal issues, please go to the Burger King legal issues talk page. For posts concerning its products, please go to the Burger King products talk page. For posts concerning its ad programs, please go to the Burger King advertising talk page. For posts concerning the character, please go to the the Burger King talk page. Previous discussions about those topics that were on this page were moved to the appropriate page on 28 September 2007.

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1 Archive 2007 (January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007) Archive 2006 (January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006) Archive 2005 (January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2005)

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Contents 1 Archives 1.1 Archive pages 2 To Do List 3 List of Countries/World Map 4 Burger King in Australia 5 Recent Vandalism 6 Peer review 7 Location disputed.

[edit] Archives

Archive pages Posts dated from December 31, 2007 and earlier have been moved to the archives. Posts started in one year and continued in to the next are located in both archives.

[edit] To Do List

To-do list for Burger King:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Copyedit: the Charitable foundations section Expand: the History section needs more on the history while owned by Pillsbury, and needs to be given more coverage of the Diageo era

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[edit] List of Countries/World Map

The list of countries and the world map are out of sync. I noticed Guyana is in the list but not coloured on the map. Also, there is no legend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.234.157.202 (talk) 19:19, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Kazakhstan might be added by mistake. There is a chain called "King Burger" in Kazakhstan, sharing original BK logo but serving different products of questionable quality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.200.129.168 (talk) 12:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Burger King in Australia

In the Hungry Jacks section it is stated: "No Australian restaurants now operate under the Burger King name."

This is incorrect. Several stores in New South Wales, Australia operate under the Burger King name as can be seen here. Ampedup (talk) 04:17, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Vandalism

There has been a lot of vandalism lately, perhaps we should lock the page to unregistered users using Template:Pp-semi-template? - Ampedup (talk) 00:14, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Good idea. This is an article about a wealthy corporation that is an American cultural icon-- and it sells red meat globally, yet. What a tempting target. As a San Francisco professor, I am amazed that as yet it hasn't attracted massive attacks by "animal rights" activists, anti-globalizers, radical nutritionists, ad infinitum. Profhum (talk) 02:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Strongly Agree As far as I've seen, the vandalism has been picking up lately - We better semi-protect it before PETA gets here. Crad0010 (talk) 17:00, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Permanent semi-protection was granted on 29 February 2008 per my request. --- Jeremy (talk) 18:47, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review

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Any images have captions that clearly spell out what is in the image. --- Jeremy (talk) 01:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

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All examples I can find are properly wikilinked as per this policy.--- Jeremy (talk) 18:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

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It was part of quote, made subtle change to avert any further issues and not disturb the context of the quote.--- Jeremy (talk) 18:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

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made minor change, Burger King logo to company logo--- Jeremy (talk) 18:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Location disputed.

Uhh the BK headquarters are NOT in Fountainbleu. It's in unincorporated dade just south of the airport. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.169.1.134 (talk) 21:11, 10 June 2008 (UTC)