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[edit] List of companies of the United Arab Emirates

I have reformatted the list in order to improve it due to this Articles for deletion nomination. In compiling the list, I have firstly used the lists of companies which are listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Market and the Dubai Financial Market, and have also added more well known privately owned companies which aren't listed on either stock exchange (Emirates for example). I have also attempted to add the Arabic names of these companies, however, due to not speaking Arabic, and not being able to read Arabic script, I am unsure whether the Arabic names are correct. Perhaps another editor/s who are fluent in Arabic could check the Arabic name and confirm they are correct and correct where necessary. For those companies listed on the Abu Dhabi market, I have used the official listing of companies from the AUH market, and for those companies listed on the Dubai market, I have used their list. Other companies, I have used the corresponding article on the Arabic WP, or their articles (if they exist).

Additionally, I have narrowed the scope of the list, as it was a spam magnet. As part of narrowing the scope, I have moved the page from List of companies in the United Arab Emirates to it's current location, List of companies of the United Arab Emirates; of the UAE denoting that these are companies which are domiciled in the UAE, meaning that the company is legally an UAE entity. An editor added Halliburton, as they have HQ in the UAE, however, Halliburton is domiciled in the USA, and is therefore not a company of the UAE, but rather of the USA. Additionally, companies listed on the UAE stock exchanges do not automatically gain entry onto this list, as some of these companies are domiciled in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi, Oman, etc. I have also removed TV stations for the time being, as some of these stations were simply TV stations (particularly satellite ones), not companies, but feel free to add the owners of these companies, of course if they are UAE domiciled companies, and they are notable. Which leads to my last point, unless the company is notable, and is likely to obtain an article in the future, don't simply add it, without discussing on the talk page first, this will eliminate the spam links.

And lastly, if anyone has access to the Industry Classification Benchmark, perhaps they could fill in the missing gaps in the tables. --Russavia (talk) 15:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)