Talk:List of pharmaceutical companies

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--Joe Sperrazza (talk) 00:28, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Pliva was added by an anon. This is an existing company in central and eastern Europa (homepage www.pliva.com. I'm not sure what they make. JFW | T@lk 16:31, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] External links

I'm adding external links to each company. They mainly point to human drug product lists so I can use them for researching the list of drugs pages. The links should also be helpful for developing company pages for those companies that we don't already have articles for. Matt 00:18, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

I do not see the need for the external links. --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 12:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree, as long as a Wiki article for that company (and not just its locale) exists and is linked. --Joe Sperrazza (talk) 19:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Organization of this page

A couple of problems I see:

  • developers of new entities and therapeutics are intermixed with manufacturers of generics and off-patent drugs
  • companies that have products launched as well as those with no launched products are included
  • no definition is provided for "major" ... therefore, no concrete inclusion/exclusion criteria exist

I have thoughts on all these matters but wanted to open the discussion on the future of this page before merely drastically altering it into a new form that might not suit the needs of all users. I will say that if the primary purpose is to provide a place for links to enrich other articles (i.e. a link set for product lists), I do not think that purpose should be run from the main article space but rather from the wikipedia namespace under the auspices of a WikiProject or from the user namespace under the auspices of an individual's research assistance tool. Courtland 05:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New User-space page created

I've created a page in my personal userspace to handle what would have been a dramatic increase in red-links on this page over time. I thought that my continued addition of red-links here would likely just undermine the utility of the page intended by the primary editors. The new page is located at User:Ceyockey/List of companies by publication mention. Courtland 23:35, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Things to do

Here are my thoughts on the things that need to be done to improve this list. I've listed them in increasing order of "difficulty"

  • Replace red links with Wiki links where available, else external links (done)
    • As new entries are added, maintain the above state
  • Have a consistent format for alphabeltical entries
    • At a minimum, no red links (done)
    • Consistent case, use of abbreviations, punctuation (e.g., no trailing periods) (done)
    • No external links unless the Wiki link is insufficient (only one case of this) (done)
    • In each entry, link to Wiki artciles the first time a term is used (in progress)
    • I recommend a format such as the following, in sentance format
Name_of_company-with-good-link, HQ location, optionally date of founding/merger, 
summary of their notability, summary of their product range, contact-link

An example of this format follows:

Allergan, headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, is a global specialty company, with products product that include ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, dermatology products, and neurological products, with the most notable of the latter being BOTOX (contact)

These are my thoughts, please let me know what you think. I'm plugging away at this list of actions, in the order shown. Cheers! --Joe Sperrazza (talk) 16:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Big pharma

"Big pharma" redirects here. I would say there's a lot more behind the concept of "big pharma" (see also Big government) than just a list of who the pharmaceutical companies are. Can I get some second opinions on this please? -Etoile (talk) 23:00, 8 May 2008 (UTC)