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[edit] Articles on Business Entities

The articles on companies on wikipedia seems to be fairly shallow. I think that is an interesting use of wikipedia to actually describe the companies we are dependent on for so many of the things we use in our lives. People _do_ have very strong feelings about things they buy. But we often fail to connect those things to the companies, and then the people, that bring them into the world.

For example, I added a little note to the Pepsi page in which I referenced that it was an SIC 2080 company, as classified upon its incorporation in the United States. This then led to a list of US SIC 2080 compnaies. I got this list from the US SEC. Many of these companies are huge players in our lives in various ways, yet there are no articles about them.

It seems that there can be a standard bunch of information, such as the boxes that go with some other types of pages, that would show an entity's ownership, employees, geographical reach and other important information. I am not an economist, but I believe it is important to document these market forces.

Does anyone have ideas about good ways to do this? RayKiddy 06:42, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think the hard part about this is to come up with stable information for an infobox, and to track changes in ownership and scope etc. I've contemplated doing just what you're talking about for various company articles I've worked on, and so much of the information is fluid that one can really only say what's true on a particular date. Even getting a founding date can be tricky, for instance if a younger company acquires an older one. Even so, you're right that today's corporations need encyclopedia articles just as much as individuals and countries. Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject, I added a link for a "Companies" WikiProject a while back, it would be good to create the project and get some wider discussion going. Stan 14:20, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hello there. Nice job on getting the Recall list going. -戴&#30505sv 21:28, Aug 16, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Ray. I saw your note about tax reform. It's always difficult with topics like these (I was once accused of US-centricity, and I'm not even American). The tendency is bound to be to give examples from your own country. I suppose the solutions are either to move to eg US tax reform, or probably better in this case to give examples from other countries too (a possible problem being that in Europe, although taxes are higher than in the US, there is probably not the same sort of pressure for reform). Jim

"Maui Dollar" conversations - moved to Talk:Maui

conversation with jengod, in re title of "California" page.

[edit] swordtail

Hi;

can i use your picture from the swordtale on the dutch site of it? Thanks, cisca

(Could you please answer on my page? thanx!)

[edit] New Mathematics Wikiportal

I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Operation Matterhorn

I have taken your addition to Bombing of Tokyo in World War II and copied it into Operaion Matterhorn. Please can you check it over and make sure that it is accurate. I have assumed that first bombing mission was to Tokyo and have added that explicitly. If it is not so then please correct it. If you have a specific source for this first raid please include it on the OM page. Philip Baird Shearer 10:10, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Mathematics Project Participants List

Hi Ray.

In case you didn't follow the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Reformat of Participants list, I'm writing to you to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". Since your name is on the list, I thought you might want to check and/or update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 14:05, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bosun's calls

An interesting topic - my personal library was inadequate, but combination of "boatswain whistle royal navy trill" to Google got several sites that weren't just selling whistles sans instructions on the correct calls. I didn't turn up anything authoritative - possibly the RN's instructions to real-life boatswains are not online yet. Clearly we need an article! Anyway; [1] has some QT samples for the USN versions, [2] is for the Canadians, and [3] is RN calls, but not all (whistle can only do two notes, so easy to graph the tunes). Stan 04:08, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FFRDCs

Thanks for all the effort in adding to the list.Bbpen 18:43, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Many of the statements in this article use weasel words (e.g. "critics say"), and are in need of proper attribution and citation. 24.205.85.14 19:31, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles listed at Articles for deletion

The following article is listed at Articles for deletion:

Please contribute to the discussion. Uncle G 09:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article renamed

Dear fellow editor: In case you're interested, the article on "United States Federal Income Tax Dependent Deduction" has been renamed United States Federal Income Tax Personal Exemption. Yours, Famspear 18:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)