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Big Z - Zillow

Hi,

Sure, I would be happy to help any way that I can. Regarding listing Zillow on the Big Z disambiguation page, you would need to mention it in the article. Right now, I don't see Big Z in the article. Do you have a reliable source (newspaper, magazine, book, etc.) that says that Zillow is called Big Z?

You can respond here, I'll watch this page for any comments you may have.--CaroleHenson (talk) 18:06, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just found something that says that Zillow is listed as "Z" on NASDAQ, which would be an interesting addition to the Big Z discusson on Zillow.--CaroleHenson (talk)

Here are some references:

The CEO of Zillow referred to Zillow as Big Z on Twitter^[1]
From an Inman News articles^[2]^[3]
On a Trulia blog^[4]
On GeekEstateBlog.com by Drew Meyers who worked at Zillow for 5 years^[5]
On HousingWire.com^[6]
On ActiveRain (by Trulia)^[7]
Pando.com, a news website^[8]
AgBeat.com^[9]

If you do a search for "Big Z" on real estate websites and blogs, you will find that people in the industry refer to Zillow as Big Z on blog or news comments sections^[10]^[11] I hope that this shows that it's just become industry lingo to refer to Zillow as "Big Z"

It's worth noting that as a contrast point, Trulia, Zillow's sister company is referred to as "Big T"^[1] Mikemugge (talk) 19:36, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mike, We don't need a whole bunch, we actually just need one from a good, secondary and reliable source - again -newspaper, magazine, book, etc. Twitter, blogs, and forums won't work. Like the Inman links are really blog posts (written by a "contributor", rather than a journalist). Is one of these from a news source, written by a journalist?--CaroleHenson (talk) 19:54, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I had one from a central PA newspaper, but it was a blog item by a local realtor. When I searched using: Zillow "Big Z" -blog -forum -twitter -wordpress -contributor.... I didn't come up with one reliable source. I checked books, HighBeam, Google news... and I'm not finding anything in mainstream media.

I'm going to post a question on Wikipedia:Teahouse about whether something used often in social media - but cannot be found in mainstream press - can be used in an article -- just to cover the bases. See this post there.--CaroleHenson (talk) 20:19, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Based upon the input from the Teahouse page, the disambig pages are less strict about what is included than articles. If you want to add Zillow to the Biz Z disambig page - you might try it with this source, which I think looks to be the best... and see if that sticks.--CaroleHenson (talk) 03:59, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I am doing that now.--Mikemugge (talk) 07:11, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cool!--CaroleHenson (talk) 20:01, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://twitter.com/spencerrascoff/status/473486056654790656

[2] ttps://www.flexmls.com/blog/will-zillow-suck-the-oxygen-out-of-trulia/

[3] ttp://www.inman.com/next/real-estate-geeks-unite-at-yourstreetcom/

[4] ttp://www.inman.com/next/who-is-the-pink-mustache-of-real-estate/

[5] ttp://geekestateblog.com/what-is-zillow/

[6] ttp://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-rewired/post/zillow-looking-get-mortgage-origination

[7] ttp://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/1912600/true-confessions--zestimates-are-not-100--accurate--

[8] ttp://pando.com/2012/09/05/zillow-steals-facebooks-secondary-offering-thunder-files-to-raise-more-than-120-million/

[9] ttp://agbeat.com/editorials/zortgages-from-the-big-z/

[10] ttp://sacramentoappraisalblog.com/2014/10/28/but-zillow-says-my-house-is-worth-a-gazillion-dollars/

[11] ttp://appraisersforum.com/showthread.php?t=180441

[12] ttp://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/2774688/realtor-dot-com--the-big--z--and-the-big--t--for-marketing-real-estate-listings

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