Talk:Nearshoring
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[edit] Various
- I corrected some of the language.
- I corrected the claim that Softtek has copyrighted the term "nearshore;" in fact, the copyright is for the term "Near Shore." The term "nearshore," as an lowercase, compound word is a generic term that has been in used for many years in the context of seashore related activities and, as such, it is not a candidate for copyright protection.
- I separated the "articles" into Articles and Nearshore-vendor Pages. The Articles list includes the material published in relatively neutral publications. The others land directly on vendor pages with no added-value content. The latter should really be taken out altogether, but seeing how this is my first experience at editing Wikipedia articles, I'll wait for other comments before doing so.
--Ohwiseone 05:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Contributor contact info
(if language is not a barrier) feel free to write back to me on my comment: dattaravi@hotmail.com
[edit] Removal of Providers section
If you are a provider of nearshoring services, please list yourself on a commercial search engine instead of posting a link within this article. Here are examples of links that were removed:
- Rural Sourcing Inc. offers low-cost, high quality information technology services within the US
- Softtek Nearshore Services - Softtek is a leading provider of Near Shore IT services to US and Europe
Links of this nature will continue to be frowned upon, unless you comment here about why your company's marketing slogan and homepage are worthy of encyclopedic mention.
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Pyat rublei 1997.jpg
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BetacommandBot 11:31, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Overview
- changes to the overview. much of the overview was devoted to why one would offshore. this is not the place since one should read offshoring for that. also, there is a consistent error in that nearshoring was called outsourcing, when it is sourcing, not just outsourcing. i did not finish making those corrections in the entire piece, but will do so later. (Excarmel 01:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC))
[edit] Introductory Definition
- i made substantial changes to this today using our definition from the recent academic journal article on nearshoring. furthermore, there was an error in the previous version that defined nearhsoring as outsourcing, when some nearshoring is not outsourcing, but "insourcing"/ captive Excarmel (talk) 18:25, 25 November 2007 (UTC)