Portal talk:Companies

Company of the week

Was just seeing this portal and noticed that Wal-Mart has been "Company of the week" since August. It is now February, and probably about time Portal:Companies/Selected article got changed or something. Tuxide (talk) of WikiProject Retailing 09:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't think Company of the week is sustainable. Perhaps, "Selected article" would be a more useful title for the box. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 11:58, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Related portal request

Could someone who knows how to do these things tastefully please add Portal:Cooperatives to Portal:Companies/Related portals (which is displayed at the bottom of the portal.) --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 11:58, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 16:41, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Revamp of portal?

I've been testing out some ideas for revamping the portal to bring it more in line with the other portals (in terms of both look and content) on Wikipedia. Using the basic portal templates and layouts used on Portal:Africa and Portal:Energy, I've mocked an example up in my sandbox. Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions/criticisms about either the style or what should and shouldn't be included? Gr1st (talk) 14:14, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Revamp Missimo1984 (talk) 02:31, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Portal: Sioux Falls revamp Missimo1984 (talk) 02:32, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Adding a new company

how do i add my company lastpit.com to this page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lastpit (talk • contribs) 05:05, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I responded at User talk:Lastpit. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I would like Samsung C&T Corporation to be added on your list. The company is listed on only one stock market: Korea Exchange; however, it has a profile uploaded on Hoover's. I hope this meets your criteria for putting up a new company on the list and more people will be able to join the page for Samsung C&T and improve the article.Kymagnus (talk) 19:57, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Advertising?

The question of company advertising and this portal has come up here: [1] Comments welcome. Johnfos (talk) 20:59, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Rate Company

What are the guide lines for requesting an article be rated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terryrayc (talk • contribs) 20:51, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Portal Total category is up for deletion

2010 May 7*Companies Svick (talk) 13:06, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Close Missimo1984 (talk) 02:31, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

dudesnude

I need help finding resources, copyediting, expanding, improving, finding sources and saving dudesnude a company.Hemanetwork (talk) 13:32, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Request

My name is Stuart Gordon, and I am the Production and Communications Manager for Life Healthcare Communications The Hernes Oak North Street Winkfield Windsor SL4 4SY UK

I would like to create a page for my company because there is a company with almost the same name already on Wikipedia and there might be confusion.

Life Healthcare Communications is the second largest independent healthcare agency in the UK.

The page for the other Life Healthcare is here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIFE_Healthcare_Group — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuartgordon70 (talk • contribs) 15:11, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

@Stuartgordon70: I can work on it. Did some initial digging and found less resource material. That might be due to only cursory look. Do connect with me via email / talk page should you be interested. Devopam (talk) 05:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Volunteer help for assessing pending articles

Hello fellow editors, I encourage you to help clear the backlog for assessing pending articles Category: Unassessed company articles . The instructions are fairly clear and it doesn't take much time. Comments/suggestion welcome. regards. Devopam (talk) 05:33, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Adding logos

There should be a task box for companies and organizations that don't have logos. I've been doing a lot lately! ThaiTee (talk) 04:01, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

The article on Teleprompter Cable Television states the company "tried to bribe Johnstown City Council" in the early 1970s. I thought it was 1969 or 1970. Actually, I recall that Johnstown mayor, GOP Kenneth O. Tompkins (check spelling of last name), was bribed approximately $14,000 to keep rival Warner Cable out of the area for a considerable period of time. He was caught, convicted, served time and, I think, died not many years later. It was a big deal here, made national headlines, and was reputedly the first --or first MAJ OR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.203.217.103 (talk) 01:27, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Status report from the Portals WikiProject

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018.

Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, and design the portals of the future.

As of April 29th, membership is at 56 editors, and growing.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for each component of portals.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject.    — The Transhumanist   03:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Missing "machine manufacturers"?

Example: KHS (company) --Kebap (talk) 11:46, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Missing template: Portal:Companies/box-footer

This portal repeatedly references {{Portal:Companies/box-footer}}, which does not exist. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:48, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris:  Fixed it has been updated to the dedicated {{Box-footer}} template. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 14:58, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Dreamy Jazz: Thanks! —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:21, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Portal upgraded and updated

I have significantly upgraded the portal, which now has separate FA and GA article sections, a Featured picture section, a new Selected article section and the separate Selected companies section, all of which have been expanded with more content. The Selected companies section, which has been in place for quite some time, has been further expanded to include entries for major companies from various areas of the world, as well as other various companies. The articles are now displayed using transclusions of content directly on the main portal page, the process of which keeps the content up-to-date relative to the content that is presented in articles. Of course, more articles can be added to further expand the portal, and other work can also be performed to further upgrade it. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:23, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

No Consensus to Delete - Proposed Action

This portal was recently nominated for deletion, and the MFD was closed on 28 August 2019 as No Consensus. The following points were noted either by the Keep editors or by the closer:

1. This portal is not yet listed as having a maintainer,although improvements were made. There should be at least one actual maintainer, and there should be periodic evidence of maintenance.

If there is no evidence of a maintainer or no evidence of maintenance, there is likely to be another MFD in two months.

Some of the Delete editors noted that there were no articles on business in general or business law. While these are out of the current scope of this portal, which is Portal:Companies and not Portal:Business, information articles would be a good addition.

If there is really a desire to demonstrate that portals in general can be improved, here are a few suggestions for design improvement:

1. Use categories of companies to select companies.

Robert McClenon (talk) 20:19, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

• Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table below.

Company articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		3	3	12			18
FL			2	10			12
GA	1	13	51	186		3	254
B	77	153	307	791		91	1,419
C	67	352	923	4,530		1,174	7,046
Start	12	286	1,669	19,495	2	5,496	26,960
Stub		21	340	12,508		9,765	22,634
List	1	14	69	666	2	158	910
Category			1	2	29,579		29,582
Disambig					40		40
File				1	8,302		8,303
Portal					3		3
Project					26		26
Redirect	3	12	43	826	2,158		3,042
Template					1,647		1,647
NA				5	17		22
Draft			1	5	627		633
Assessed	161	854	3,409	39,037	42,403	16,687	102,551
Unassessed						1	1
Total	161	854	3,409	39,037	42,403	16,688	102,552
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 303,553			Ω = 5.20

• Nb. See the above post, "Portal upgraded and updated", which I posted earlier today and where I stated that the portal has, "a new Selected article section". This section contains new content that was not in place during the MfD discussion, and it focuses upon business types and terminology. Additional companies were also added, after the MfD discussion was closed. See the portal's Revision history for more information. I have also decided to maintain this portal. I initially added myself as a maintainer, but withdrew. However, after further consideration, I have decided to be a maintainer for this portal. Another place, among many, to find new articles for the Selected company section, which comprises non-FA and non-GA articles, can be found at List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue, List of largest financial services companies by revenue, List of largest chemical producers and similar articles, such as those that can be found at Category:Lists of companies by revenue. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:47, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

2020 portal updates

The portal now uses transclusion templates to provide content, which displays verbatim content to that in articles, providing readers with up-to-date content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion, which was closed on 28 December 2019 (UTC).

Below are lists of articles presently being used on the main portal page.

Some of the articles listed below were added to the main portal page today (diff). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:56, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Featured articles

(Full article...)

Good articles

(Full article...)

Selected articles

(Full article...)

Selected company articles

(Full article...)

• Updated/expanded the portal with more GA-class articles today (listed below). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:53, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

• Japan Airlines, Wistarburg Glass Works, Krohn Air, Hochtief, International Hat Company, Vanillaware, Quantic Dream, The Churchill Machine Tool Company, Star Alliance, Submarine Telegraph Company, DuMont Television Network, GoAir, Hotelito Desconocido, Playtex, Steorn

• Expanded with more B-class articles (listed below) added to the Selected company section, to round-out the portal with a more comprehensive topical overview. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:33, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

• History of BMW, Nintendo, Fiat S.p.A., Skype Technologies, Rio Tinto (corporation), Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Kristiania Kommunale Sporveie, Marimekko, Royal Caribbean International, STMicroelectronics, Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Harley-Davidson, Lloyd's of London, IO Interactive, Jumbo King, Lacoste, Paktel, Taco Bell, Fiorucci, IWG plc, Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken, HSBC, Uber, Sanyo, PayPal, LKAB Malmtrafik, Lamborghini.

General question about the Portal:companies template

I just noticed the Portal:companies template at the bottom of an article I was editing. Are there any guidelines for when to include it? I don't see it very often. Is the goal to have it at the bottom of every company article? TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 01:56, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Is there a list / article / collation of sources like this that I've started?

See User:Ceyockey/Sources with utility in improving company articles. If there is something already existing, I'd like to refer to and improve that rather than starting from scratch. Thanks. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:09, 15 August 2024 (UTC)