Talk:Jardines (company)/Archives/2015

Copyright violation

I suspect that copyrighted material was added in this edit, though I am unable to find the source. The edit also deleted the paragraph about the company's opium trading. -- Kjkolb 00:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

It certainly reads like a Jardine's document from about 1947. Note the lack of any reference to the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China and claims that Jardines have extensive interests in Shanghai. m.e. 05:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC) {{Cv-unsure|m.e.|https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jardine_Matheson&oldid=53300991|date=May 2006}}

Much of the article seems to be plagiarized from this site. —Politizer^{( talk • contribs )} 03:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi. This article certainly seems to have a history of problems, but that particular site seems to have copied from us. Note that they pasted even the tags "UnreferencedNPOV". Also note that the "miscellaneous" section includes both the sentences, "Jardines started off as an Opium smuggler into China but withdrew from the Opium trade in 1870." "Jardines' history was the inspiration for a series of novels written by James Clavell, including Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, and Noble House." The second of these was in the article at its inception in 2001, here, where the rest of the content is significantly different. The first of these was introduced here, at which point it said, "A interesting fact is that this company started off as a Opium smuggler into China." It seems like that the article was copied by the external site at some time around the end of October, 2006 (see here). The miscellaneous section's language was then in the same form used at the external site, and the tags at the top, viewed in source, said, "{{Unreferenced}}{{NPOV}}". The date was added to the former tag on the following edit, and soon thereafter the note about Opium smuggling was removed from Wikipedia. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 10:51, 23 October 2008 (UTC)