Talk:Feltex Carpets

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 Feltex Carpets was the New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight from 12 October, to 24 November 2006
For details on how the article improved, see the NZCOTF history
  • Excellent idea. Clearly a notable company, and the article badly needs cleanup. What's with the "(Administrators Appointed)(Receivers and Managers Appointed)" verbage? Looks like it was copied from somewhere, and these terms frequently appear in bankruptcy or receivership actions. Fan-1967 05:50, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Go Feltex!!

  • Still a work in progress - am concentrating on getting as much information up first, then will look at updating where necessary. Hopefully as time goes by more Feltex employees will add content - especially on the Australian side)

[edit] Copyright concerns

Where does all the historical information come from? It looks like it is directly from some Feltex publication, although I can't find it on the net. Some parts of it are very obviously written by Feltex. This will need to be rewritten to avoid a copyright breach.- gadfium 02:43, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

  • All the information was compiled by a Feltex Employee. I am collecting this information internally as another employee. Not sure how this will work with copyright - you will not find this information anywhere on the net or in publication. It is a pity as there is so much history within the company that is being lost as people retire or move on. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Mikemanx (talk • contribs) .
Mike, thanks for the work you are putting into this article. I am not a lawyer, but my understanding of how copyright works is that if Feltex paid someone to write this material, whether as part of their normal employment with Feltex or as a special one-off payment, they probably own the copyright to it, and we will have to rewrite the material in our own words to use it. If it was written by someone on their own time, and they agreed to let Feltex use the material but didn't sign anything, then they still own the copyright to it (they have given Feltex a free licence to use it, but not the ownership of it), and they can choose to allow it to be put on Wikipedia under the terms of the GFDL licence. This is similar to allowing Feltex to use it, but also allows anyone else to use it so long as they adhere to the terms of that licence.- gadfium 04:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
OK - thanks for that Gadfium. I'll look at re-writing that section where applicable as the employee was proably asked to write this (any help appreciated!). The more I look into it, the more I seem to find. Mikemanx 05:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Henri van de Velde

Is there any more info on this gentleman? The name seems to be Belgian (van de opposed to Dutch van der and German von), and he seems to be an exact contemporary of Henri van de Velden who was a leading art nouveau designer and one of the founders of Bauhaus (gogle the name for lots of info). However, he was active in Europe throughouth the times mentioned. Curious coincidence? dramatic 08:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Henri van de Velden (1878-1947) - Belgian-born, came to Australian in the early 1920's to become part-owner and General Manager of Feltex Carpets. In 1932 he bought and rebuilt Everglades House in Leura ([1] and [2]). The names are an interesting coincidence but it appears these are different people. Euryalus (talk) 23:00, 1 January 2008 (UTC)