Talk:History of Wal-Mart

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[edit] Photos requested

In particular, if someone could obtain a photo of Sam Walton's original store (either a very old photo or a photo of the reconstruction), that would help out the 'early history' section. Dr. Cash 18:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

A belated "done" ;-) --Bobak 20:54, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article rewrite

I have rewritten this article and placed it on the temporary subpage, as the directions on the copyvio announcement provide for. While the article still cites (through the references section) the Wal-Mart Timeline that is posted on Wal-Mart's publicity site, the text has been completely rewritten and organized differently. I don't see a problem with citing their timeline -- it's their history; granted, we don't want to copy it, but what happened in Wal-Mart's history is still history, so I hope I was able to sufficiently put it into our own words using a NPOV. I've also added the material from the Wal-Mart marketing experiments article, which I believe is a bit more relevant here than in its own article.

Please take a look and let me know what you think. Dr. Cash 01:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I think you've created an exceptional base from which to expand and elaborate. I'm nearly finished reading "Sam Walton: Made in America" and am planning to use it to add to what you already have. I'll be working on adding more as I'm able.
So far, I've been able to expand upon the "Early History" section of the temporary subpage. Although I'm not sure if I've cited/referenced the book appropriately, and I've only listed the book under "References".
Also, I recommend that you take a look at your web citations -- they don't seem to be formatted correctly and aren't functioning properly. --TruthInEvidence 20:22, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! That's quite interesting information! I've added a book reference to the Sam Walton book that you referred to, so it should be referenced properly. I also fixed a few other of the references that were not linked properly. For information on citing sources/using references, you can find that at WP:REF. There are several templates to use for various sources, or you can just enter the information manually, without using the templates. Personally, I prefer the manual entry as I find it kind of a pain to remember the variable names and all that when using the templates. But either way seems to work. Cheers! Dr. Cash 21:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
The numbers of stores for the early years have to be vastly off. Easytoremember 06:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Organization

I've been looking this article over, and it seems it's a bit disorganized. It goes from paragraph form to timeline form and back, which makes it seem somewhat choppy. This is why I've tagged it with the cleanup tag, in order to get some discussion going on about how to rectify this. I personally think that the best way to fix this is to split text and timeline into separate sections of the article. Thoughts? SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

This article has way too many one-sentence paragraphs, and is indiscriminant. What I would do is merge everything that is not directly related to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. out (like history of Sam Walton would go in Sam Walton, history of corporate governance would go in Wal-Mart#Governance) and then cluster the rest of the sentences into individual paragraphs by decade. I did something similar to this in the Target Corporation article. If we really need this information in timeline format, then we could consider using m:EasyTimeline. Tuxide 18:42, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
The article probably could use a good copyedit, but I removed the cleanup tag because I don't think that the article is in need of a major cleanup, just a couple of little tweaks to the grammar. Dr. Cash 22:37, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to the United States of Wal-Mart

In 1994, Discount Store News produced a well-known article with the line "Welcome to the United States of Wal-Mart" in it, detailing the retailer's projected increase from $85 billion to $200 billion, and this is it [1]. Its information could be incorporated into this article, which already has some content on financial history. There was a time when Sears, Kmart, and even Dayton Hudson were bigger than this chain. Tuxide 05:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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Tuxide 21:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)