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[edit] Mainland vs PRC categorization

First, changing a category or doing a revert is not a minor edit. It is subterfuge.

Second, COSCO, like many companies based in the PRC, operate jointly across the entire PRC. Your insurance company thing isn't precedent setting, it only has one article

It's a TNC, and it operates in many countries as well. And please sign your comment. — Instantnood 08:53, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
TNC, what? Yes, the global nature of it's business tends to disagree with categorizing it regionally SchmuckyTheCat 14:29, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Actually I dont quite understand what he is talking about either!--Huaiwei 14:49, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
COSCO is a company of mainland China, and it is a TNC. Are you going to tag it as category:company of X for all places it has operations? — Instantnood 14:59, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
COSCO is a company of the People's Republic of China. If you do that, you wont have to tag it under two subcategories, would you? lol! --Huaiwei 15:33, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
To repeat myself, it is a company of mainland China. — Instantnood 15:58, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
Does your repeated statments mean it is not a company of the PRC??--Huaiwei 05:45, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Companies of mainland China, Hong Kong or Macao are all companies of the PRC. But they have to be differentiated from each other. — Instantnood 08:34, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
If you think its important to split, of coz we can..and they already are. but may I know why do you insist that this company should be called a company of Mainland China, but not the PRC?--Huaiwei 08:42, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Would a company from Luxembourg be called "a company of the European Union"? — Instantnood 09:15, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
It will if it is incorporated in the European Union...if that is possible? ;) Pls find a better analogy.--Huaiwei 11:18, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
On documents a company would say it is incorporated in the PRC, but in effect its incorporation is within mainland China. And if you are going to argue in this way, I'll have to tell you that a company "incorporated in Hong Kong" is not a company "incorporated in the PRC". — Instantnood 15:22, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
Did I argue against anything to do with Hk in this case? No. I dont give a shit if a HK-incorporated company thinks it is a PRC company or not. The simple fact is a company incorporate in the PRC is a company of the PRC. Again I ask...who are you to deny them their right to use their country name?--Huaiwei 22:13, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
In that way category:Companies of Hong Kong shouldn't be a subcategory of category:Companies of the PRC. — Instantnood 23:35, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
I knew it. That was obviously your source of insecurity all these while. Apparantly category:Companies of Hong Kong already isnt a subcategory of the PRC, so why are you freaking out? But hush hush....do you sence that I am going to make that happen too soon? :D --Huaiwei 00:30, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Who knows what you guys would do next? :-) — Instantnood 00:52, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)
So, it's government owned by the PRC, so therefore it isn't part of the PRC, it's part of mainland China, because Hong Kong isn't part of the PRC? what? SchmuckyTheCat 15:52, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

oh, TNC. SchmuckyTheCat 15:48, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed

Can someone that disputes the article make a single problem statement to discuss? SchmuckyTheCat 20:16, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have removed the "Disputed" tag from this talk page. The dispute was nearly two years ago when the article was a three-line stub. It was resolved in favour of the current version and the issue (is this a PRC, "Mainland China" or HK company) has not been a matter of debate for 23 months. Further, the editor who disputed the wording has been banned for unrelated sockpuppetry. No other editors took his side of the debate, so it is unlikely that there will be any future comment this issue.
Other points of view are welcome, but I think this issue is done. Euryalus (talk) 05:02, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Added info on San Fracisco Bay disaster

I added a section on this and also tracked down some references for the lead and made some minor edits so it didn't read so much like a press release. I removed the "no sources" tag since as some but not all of the information is sourced. It could use a few more third-party sources. --Loonymonkey 01:45, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Founding date?

Other wikipedia articles (eg. Chinese_shipping) reference COSCO as being founded in 1961.

This is confirmed from a quote from the homepage of COSCOphil.com (and other COSCO corporate sites), that states: "Founded on April 27, 1961, COSCO has grown into US$17 Billion corporation."

Yet the wikipedia article lists the founding date as 1993. Is this when the company was named/renamed to COSCO, or when it was actually founded?

-76.19.38.68 (talk) 21:35, 17 May 2008 (UTC)