Wikipedia:WikiProject Companies

Quarterly Message - Q2 2008

A message from the WikiProject to provide focus:

Please consider helping our first Quarterly WikiProject improvement drive!! We would like to see the project banner and portal, {{WikiProject Companies}} and {{Companies portal}}, added to all articles about notable companies within Wikipedia. The Infobox company template is used on nearly 14,000 articles, so there are plenty out there!

Introduction

Goal

Our goal is to improve the depth and breadth of coverage in Wikipedia of notable companies and to bring as many of these articles to good / featured status as possible.

Scope

Notable for-profit companies, businesses & corporations, no matter where based, whether public or private, existing or merged/liquidated.

Self-Promotion/Conflict of Interest

As Wikipedia's popularity has increased, there have been instances of companies or individuals working at companies creating or modifying articles in order to make their company appear more favorably. This practice is in violation of Wikipedia guidelines and is frowned upon by the community in general and this WikiProject. If you are one of those persons, you are asked to read WP:BFAQ, which will help you to understand why this practice is an issue.

In addition, please read the rating criteria guidelines, when adding a page to the WP:Companies project, to ensure that you do not appear to be trying to boost a company's visibility on Wikipedia for a gain.

Milestones & Statistics

This WikiProject was founded in July 2007. Since then over 49 Wikipedians have signed up to participate and help improve the thousands of articles within our scope!

Companies articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	3	3	3		11
	FL			3	10		13
	A		1	1			2
	GA	3	5	17	10	3	38
	B	35	94	80	21	26	256
	C	7	15	30	33	28	113
	Start	24	106	261	324	351	1066
	Stub		37	173	496	477	1183
	List		7	2	116	23	148
	Assessed	71	268	570	1013	908	2830
	Unassessed	1	16	13	15	1762	1807
	Total	72	284	583	1028	2670	4637

Article Alerts

Proposed deletion

• 6 Jul 2009 – American Historic Society (talk) proposed for deletion by KenWalker.
• 28 Jun 2009 – Z+F (talk) has been deleted.

Articles for deletion

• 9 Jul 2009 – Ericom Software (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 7 Jul 2009 – IBPT Corporation (talk) nominated for deletion by Headbomb; see discussion.
• 6 Jul 2009 – Quantronix Corporation (talk) nominated for deletion by Headbomb; see discussion.
• 4 Jul 2009 – Activeion (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
• 30 Jun 2009 – Proxio (talk) nominated for deletion by ApprenticeFan; see discussion.

Featured article reviews

• 23 May 2009 – Pan American World Airways (talk) is nominated by WhisperToMe.

Good article nominations

• 7 Jul 2009 – Rio Tinto Group (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.
• 28 May 2009 – Great Southern Group (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Hamiltonstone; see discussion.
• 15 May 2009 – Cargolink (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Arsenikk.

Good article reassessment

• 22 Jun 2009 – Twitter (talk) is nominated for an individual reassessment by Abce2; see discussion.
• 11 Jun 2009 – Emirates Airline (talk) is nominated for an individual reassessment; see discussion.

Good topic candidates

• 2 Jul 2009 – Topic Burger King with main article Burger King (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.

Peer review

• 10 Jul 2009 – Peer review opened for Twitter (talk) by The lorax.
• 4 Jul 2009 – Peer review for Burger King franchises (talk) closed.

Did you know

• 8 Jul 2009 – A fact from McCaw Cellular Communications (talk) appeared on the main page.

Copyright problems

• 28 Jun 2009 – The copyvio tag was removed from Lodge Cottrell Ltd (talk).

Other news

• 8 July 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
• 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
• 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
• 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot.

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