Talk:Gustavus Franklin Swift
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Gustavus Franklin Swift was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | |||||||||||||||||
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Gustavus Franklin Swift is either included in the Wikipedia CD Selection or is a candidate for inclusion in the next version (the project page is at WPCD Selection). Please maintain high quality standards, and if possible stick to GFDL images. However, if you can improve the article, please do so! |
This article ought to be broken up into a biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift and a page on his company Swift & Co.. The corporate history section is incomplete as it stands, and Swift was a big enough meat processor, even after its founder's death, to merit a page on its own. I'll do it myself when I get time if no one volunteers to do themselves. --Diderot 11:43, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
- I originally combined two stub articles on Swift and greatly expanded this article to the extent it exists now because I was interested in Swift's contributions to the development of the refrigerator car. The subject as a whole can do with more elaboration—links to such subjects as meat packing industry and Union Stock Yards (even Philip Armour, which I expanded) tie to stub articles. My only objection would be to see either Gustavus Franklin Swift or Swift & Co. end up as "orphans" to the splitting process.--Lordkinbote 17:26, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
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- I know there is at least one ConAgra brand name that was originally a Swift brand, I imagine there are others. I suspect keeping Swift Co. from being orphaned wouldn't be too hard. But perhaps a separate corporate history makes sense without changing very much here. --Diderot 17:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
At a minimum, the article should mention that the company Swift founded is still around. See http://www.swiftbrands.com/index.php --Agent X
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[edit] Picture Quality
The picture in this article really isn't that good of quality. Can we find another one that will look better? Clarkefreak ∞ 03:23, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Operations at six Swift plants suspended: Swift Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:46 AM ET
Operations at six Swift plants suspended: Swift Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:46 AM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Operations are temporarily suspended at the six Swift & Co. meat plants that were searched by U.S. immigration officials early on Tuesday as part of an identity-theft investigation, the company said.
"Operations at the affected Swift facilities have been temporarily suspended pending the anticipated end-of-day completion of the interview process," the company said. "Shortly thereafter, Swift expects to resume operations, but production levels will depend on the number of employees, if any, detained for further interviewing or otherwise unable to return to work."
No civil or criminal charges have been filed against Swift or its employees, the company said.
Swift is privately owned, and industry sources said it is the third-largest producer of both U.S. beef and pork.
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[edit] GA/R
This article has been at WP:GA/R discussion is at WP:GA/R#Gustavus_Franklin_Swift.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 00:20, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
- The result of the review was to Delist the article. An archive of the discussion can be found here. Drewcifer 06:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
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