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[edit] Naming convention for Companies and Businesses

I just wanted to draw attention and comment to on a draft poll to determine naming convention for companies and businesses. I have looked around a number of places and have only seen comments to the effect of "we should have a convention" or "do we have a convention" on how to name a XXX company. This has either the effect of drawing a few uninterested comments or a stirring up a heated debate. In either case the net result is generally zero. Your comments to help clarify this poll and later corresponding vote would be greatly appreciated. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 17:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)/poll

Voting has begun and will continue until March 5. Please resolve this lagging issue. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please do not edit text of listing.

Please do not edit the text of the listing. This is the list as it comes from S&P. Please make redirects for companies better known by other names instead of editing their listing. This enables easier updates from the S&P list. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo 00:49, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)


The listing includes "Phelps Dodge" which is not a component of the S&P per the newest list. Looking on the list and it was one of the additions and subtractions to the list. Just eyeballing the list, it looks like there have been 20 or so deletions and additions since the list was last updated (see http://www2.standardandpoors.com/portal/site/sp/en/us/page.topic/indices_500/2,3,2,2,0,2,4,2007,0,3,1,0,1,50,0,0.html .

Would simply linking to the S&P's resource be better? It seems like the list of companies in the S&P changes each month, so someone would need to update the list on a monthly basis if we want it to be accurate.

Trompelamort (talk) 13:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Updating category

There is also a category (Category:S&P 500). Is there any desire to keep that synced with this list? -- Bovineone 06:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current list of missing articles for S&P 500 companies

Updated 6 March 2007:

List of missing articles for S&P 500 companies[1]
Company Ticker symbol SEC filings Industry
Applera Corp-Applied Biosystems Group ABI reports Life Sciences Tools & Services
Archstone-Smith Trust ASN reports Residential REITs
BJ Services BJS reports Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Bard (C.R.) Inc. BCR reports Health Care Equipment
Century Telephone CTL reports Integrated Telecommunication Services
Equity Residential EQR reports Residential REITs
Hudson City Bancorp HCBK reports Thrifts & Mortgage Finance
Kimco Realty KIM reports Retail REITs
Laboratory Corp. of America Holding LH reports Health Care Services
Millipore Corp. MIL reports Life Sciences Tools & Services
Noble Corporation NE reports Oil & Gas Drilling
Pinnacle West Capital PNW reports Electric Utilities
Questar Corp. STR reports Gas Utilities
Spectra Energy Corp. SE reports Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation
Zions Bancorp ZION reports Regional Banks
  1. ^ Standard & Poor - Indices S&P 500 (Excel). Standard & Poor's (2007-03-01). Retrieved on 2007-03-04.

--A. B. (talk) 15:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 5 March 2007 changes + issues to consider

Yesterday, I replaced the existing list with the 1 March 2007 list of S&P 500 constituents from the Standard and Poor's website. While I was at it, I also added ticker symbols, each company's industry (as listed by S&P) and links to each company's filings at www.sec.gov. I created new redirects for companies whose article names did not match the names S&P used. I also made sure each company was listed in Category:S&P 500.

The convention observed previously with this article has been to use exactly the S&P nomenclature, which I have done, however I think we may want to rethink a few:

Perhaps these types of situations might be best handled with footnotes, for example:

  • Fluor Corp.[1]
    • 1 Fluor Corporation was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:FLR) in 1957 and later acquired. In 2000, Fluor was spun out of Massey Energy and the "new" Fluor Corporation was relisted on the NYSE.
  • Scripps (E. W.)[2]
    • 2 Scripps has two classes of common stock, "Voting shares" and "Class A". Class A shares are used in S&P 500 index calculations

What do others think? (And does anyone have any problems with the expanded information I added yesterday?) --A. B. (talk) 16:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

In the past, I had truncated the "(New)" where it was listed. I also removed the "class A" where I was able to find it. The footnotes would be fine with me, but may be hard to maintain as the S&P list gets updated in the future. I don't see anything wrong with the expanded info, the update looks good to me. Thanks for your work. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Footnotes don't add much beyond trivia better included in the company's article -- I like the truncation approach better. I'll do that for now -- if anybody disagrees, they should feel free to revert me. --A. B. (talk) 17:59, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Every month there are major corporate actions (e.g. Mergers and Acquisitions) that change the composition of the S&P. While admirable, I think the footnotes would be A. Hard to maintain and B. crowd out the list after a year. Trompelamort (talk) 13:35, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] it would be helpful to have

a summary count of components by sector (i.e. financials, vs industrials etc)