Talk:Jardine Matheson Holdings

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Hong Kong To-do: edit purge Clean up all MTR station pages. They are literally all over the place. Two model pages are Tsing Yi Station and Sheung Shui Station. They each describe a feature special to the station, Station layout, exit, and connections, as well as neighbouring stations and the station "box". We will also need plenty of updated pictures (e.g. removing all KCR-related images except those on the KCR article). Check that all pages have basically the same language structure as Tsing Yi Station and Sheung Shui Station. Links to location maps are good too. (Should also perform these checks on Chinese Wikipedia.) Clean-up pages that link with TVB, especially its series pages.

This article is excessively focussed on bashing company's past in unencyclopaedic language at the moment. I'll come back and turn it into a proper business profile at some point.Philip 13:06, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC) Dear Pcp, this article should NOT be a "proper business profile" any more than the British East Indian Company should be. Jardine & Matheson is significant primarily for its historical role and secondarily as a business now. Therefore, while the business information is necessary and appropriate, one should keep in mind the relevance of the article as a history article. If this company is important enough to be mentioned in all sorts of introductory textbooks on modern China, I think it is a pretty big deal in this context. As for bashing and unencyclopedic language, you should see how most academics are describing it. "Commissioner Lin and the Opium Wars" is dated but good, if I recall?Sardino (talk) 06:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

It looks more like it was written by someone from the Jardine's PR department to me. I may have missed something but it seems to entirely omit reference to the role played by Opium in the company's early history. I wouldn't want to stir up any legal issues with a company that still exists, but surely some cross referencing to the opium wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_war) would make sense? P.T.A.Dorman 16:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

It looks like the article was describing Jardines in the immediate post-WWII years. Most of the companies in the companies sections described as "today's" no longer exist or are totally irrelevant today. There's no mention of the Jardine's property in mainland China being confisticated by Communists China in 1949, and all the developments it had in post-WWII Hong Kong. 205.152.6.42 22:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Can someone add information on Jardine and Matheson architecture in high pre-war Shanghai? --Dpr 05:37, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I would agree that this article to a large extent ignores the significant role Jardine and Matheson played in the Chinese opium trade, they were the largest agent in the foreign opium trade in China for a while, and I think that deserves at least a paragraph, I will try to do this once I dig out my undergrad thesis on this subject and can verify my assertion with sources.

Its opium involvement deserves way more than a paragraph! As much of its initial wealth came from the opium trade. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.176.124.105 (talk) 03:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

This article lacks any information on ecent events surrounding the attempted takeover of (parts of) Jardine's by Lee Ka-Shing. Furthermore, their de-listing from the HK stock exchange and following not-so-pleasant reaction from the Chinese and HK government.

Various statemtents in this article are completely out of date. It seems to be a press release or internal coporate history prior to 1997. For starters, in the section on the Development of the Colony of Hong Kong, I would point out that only Hongkong Land remains under the chairmanship of the managing director of Jardines. The other three companies stated in the article are now controlled by Wheelock.--Hongkongexpat 04:32, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Copyright violation 2 Complete lack of references 3 Wade-Giles vs. Pinyin 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Jardineslogo.png 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Jardineslogo.png

[edit] Copyright violation

I suspect that copyrighted material was added in this edit, though I am unable to find the source. The edit also deleted the paragraph about the company's opium trading. -- Kjkolb 00:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

It certainly reads like a Jardine's document from about 1947. Note the lack of any reference to the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China and claims that Jardines have extensive interests in Shanghai. m.e. 05:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

m.e suspects that this article (specifically [53300991 this version]) is a copyright violation, but without a source this can not be definitively determined. If this article can be shown to be a copyright infringement, please list the article on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. If you are certain that the article is not a copyright violation, you should give evidence below. Please do not remove this tag without discussion.

[edit] Complete lack of references

The article has not a single reference. For such a long and detailed article, this is inexcusable. Patiwat 04:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wade-Giles vs. Pinyin

Perhaps someone should go through this article and convert the PRC place names into pinyin, as that romanization is largely considered the standard amongst Madarin speaking peoples around the world (with exception, of course, for the ROC-Taiwan), and is the official romanization for the PRC itself. Unfortunately, I don't feel that I am familiar enough with the conversions to do it myself. Also, some proper nouns have maintained their Wade-Giles spellings despite the proliferation of Pinyin, and I am not familiar enough with the geography of Hong Kong to sufficiently determine whether or not a particular location has maintianed W-G over pinyin. Anyone feeling up to this? -Joe in Seattle —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.227.219.0 (talk) 10:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

Done. I couldn't find what "Snasi" was, at least in reference to China. 203.218.172.218 14:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Jardineslogo.png

Image:Jardineslogo.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Jardineslogo.png

Image:Jardineslogo.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)