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Adding an entry for Kennet Partners

I'd like to submit a draft entry for Kennet Partners, a firm I'm affiliated with. Kennet is a growth capital investment firm active in Europe and the US. A number of our peers, co-investors and competitors have Wikipedia entries.

The link to a draft page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yacout/Sandbox#Kennet_Partners

I have tried to respect the formatting guidelines and templates, but please forgive any errors.

Yacout (talk) 17:50, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Resources?

Thanks for inviting me to join the task force. Am I the third member?

Annual reports and analyst reports on some key firms are hard to find. What are the best sources of information for writing articles? Can you recommend a book or two that I can request on inter-library loan?

--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 07:47, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Creating PE firms

I am looking at the template proposed to create a new entry for a new PE firm but I am a bit confused (or lack experience) on how to take them and put them into a new page. Is there an example I can refer to? I looked at the Carlyle, Alpinvest pages but the entire format is different... So is there a page I can cut and paste the format of to create new entries...thanks for any guidance. from Tliaudet (talk) 08:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)Tliaudet

HELP!!!

I've tried to create Vestar Capital Partners again, but the template has some sort of problem. Please help before it is deleted again.JakeH07 (talk) 01:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Categorization of private equity firms

Category:Private equity firms now has 130 articles. Although there are many larger categories, this number arguably makes it hard to find articles or groups of similar articles.

I have proposed that firms be subcategorized by country - that is by country of headquarters, as indicated in List of private equity firms. The subcat would obviously remain in the Private equity firms category. This would be similar to the way other international businesses are categorised in WP - e.g. banks, insurance companies, law firms. Against this it is argued that PE firms are too international and subcategories would not be helpful.

I think the test question is: can x firm be said to be a US firm or a UK firm (or a firm from another country)?

Any views? Mhockey (talk) 18:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

As discussed already, I completely disagree. In addition to Category:Private equity firms of the United Kingdom You have already created:
Your primary agenda appears to be categorizing UK related items and as it applies to PE, to start subcategorizing PE articles is not productive in my judgment.
And in response the question is not can you subcategorize something but should you. In fact there is an entire page (WP:Overcategorization) for peple who think that everything that can be categorized should be. The question is how best to organize the articles. The articles are already divided by investment type between venture firms and more buyout focused articles. If there were hundreds of firms then it might be a reasonable argument to try to break down the list further. However, at that point I would argue that the geographic focus (i.e., US, Europe, Asia, LatAm) is far more important than the country where a firm is headquarterd. I think for now the existing categorization is more than enough. And given that many "UK" firms are either pan-European or global in investment focus, I think this is better left as is. |► ϋrbanяenewaℓ • TALK ◄| 19:15, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

I think there are a few red herrings here:

1. I have no agenda to categorize UK related items. I have an agenda to try and improve WP on matters where I have some knowledge.

2. I am happy to discuss each of the other categories I have set up, but the reasons are all different.

And so on - but those issues are better discussed elsewhere.

3. WP:Overcategorization is mostly about placing articles in too many categories. It does tell us to avoid subcategorizing subjects by geographical boundary if that boundary does not have any relevant bearing on the subjects' other characteristics - if you are arguing that. I dislike overcategorization and I'm trying to reduce it. To take examples you have cited: many UK investment management companies were in both Category:Investment management companies and Category: Financial services companies of the United Kingdom. I substituted for both Category:Investment management companies of the United Kingdom. The UK REITs were in Category:Real estate investment trusts and Category:Property companies of the United Kingdom. Again I substituted one category for two.

The thing to focus on is that categories are a finding aid. Categories and subcategories are there to help the user find articles. If you are saying that no-one is likely to be looking for PE firms of the UK, or that "PE firms of the UK" is a meaningless concept, fair enough.

But you and I have aired our views enough. It would be good to get the views of others.Mhockey (talk) 21:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

To Do list

I see that this project has a large list of "Articles to create". What criteria has been used to select these candidates? Has thought been given to the general criteria for inclusion? Remember that Wikipedia should not be a directory of every Private Equity firm in existence.

I blanked your Template by accident and it Might not be my fault

Hello,

The invitation template on my Talk page is not the Substitute one as it should be, I think. So, when I edited it by blanking it; it wiped out the original; I suppose.--Wikipietime (talk) 03:01, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Vision Capital

I am Julia van Tuyll and I work at Vision Capital. I am reaching out to this group for some advice on the creation of a dedicated Vision Capital Wikipedia page. There is already reference to Vision Capital on Wikipedia in context of our ownership of a number of portfolio companies. We think it would be very useful for Wikipedia users to be able to trace the owners of these portfolio companies, but despite our efforts to create a link from these mentions to our page, we have struggled to get any traction. I would be very grateful if you could consider working with us to create a page or give us advice on how we may move forward.

To give you some context, there are currently 26 companies within Vision Capital’s portfolio across Europe and the Americas. In total over 10,000 people are employed by companies owned by Vision. Vision Capital has raised seven funds totalling over EURO1.9bn. It currently has EURO1.7bn in AUM. JHAVTVS 10:38, 19 December 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JHAVTVS (talk • contribs)

Proposed changes to Pacific Equity Partners

Hi, I'm a communication consultant with FTI Consulting in Australia. I'm currently working on behalf of PEP. The firm has suggested some changes/additional content for your consideration. regards --Tsen2 (talk) 02:25, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback I have made a change to the initial content removing PEP Funds and replacing it with 'Funds advised by PEP'. It is not the intention to create a new entry rather improve the existing entry with more current information. If you need anything more please advice. regards --Tsen2 (talk) 03:17, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

{{request edit}} {{request edit}} Funds advised by PEP have made over 25 operating company investments, and over 70 bolt-on acquisitions at the company level. The 10 current PEP group operating companies span several industries including energy, consumer products, entertainment and basic financial services industries, [with a total combined enterprise value over A$8.5bn]. Together, these businesses employ over 50,000 people across Australia and New Zealand.

PEP’s current portfolio of companies include: Spotless Group, Peters Ice Cream, SCA Hygiene Australia, Energy Developments, American Stock Transfer and Trust Company, Hoyts Group,[1], Veda Advantage, Griffin's Foods,[2] Xtralis and Link Market Services.

Recent PEP Funds transactions include: - Acquisition of Spotless Group in August 2012 [3] - Acquisition of Peter’s Ice-Cream from Nestle in August 2012 [4] - Joint venture agreement with Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) to invest and develop SCA Hygiene Australasia in January 2012 [5] - Sale of Independent Liquor to Asahi in August 2011 [6] - Collins Foods IPO on the ASX in August 2011 [7] - Sale of Tegel Foods to Affinity Equity Partners in May 2011 [8]

PEP has been the recipient of a number of awards in recent years including Firm of the Year [9] , Best LBO Deal of the Year [10] and Private Equity Firm of the Year.

The firm's previous investments were AMR, Emeco, Guardian, Collins Foods Group, Frucor, Independent Liquor,[11] Godfreys, Oasis, REDgroup Retail, Startonics, TCG, Tegel Foods[12] and Vertex.

References 1 ^ Hoyts to be sold to private equity group. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, September 24, 2007 [same] 2 ^ "Pacific Equity buys Griffin's Foods". The Age (Melbourne). 1 April 2006. 3 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB30001424052702303916904577375072274914982.html 4 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aussie-equity-firm-licks-rivals-to-buy-up-peters/story-e6frg8zx-1226412736889 5 http://www.smh.com.au/business/pep-takes-a-twoply-approach-20111104-1n01m.html?skin=text-only 6 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/18/independent-asahi-idUSL3E7JH3RN20110818 7 http://www.smh.com.au/business/pep-tests-market-with-collins-float-20110704-1gz18.html 8 http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/4834652/Hong-Kong-company-plucks-Tegel 9 http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/04726167#/04726167/10 10 http://www.avcal.com.au/news/2011/avcal-2011-award-winners-announced 11 ^ Asahi to Buy New Zealand Liquor Company. New York Times, August 18, 2011 12 ^ Pacific Equity Mulling Options for Tegel Foods. New York Times, August 20, 2010

Additional external link http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/peps-acquisition-machine-hits-top-gear/story-fn91v9q3-1226519131392 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsen2 (talk • contribs) 02:15, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

I have disabled the Request Edit. Can you please post this on the Talk page of the article? You may also want to get some help on the help board on how to format citations the format is clean enough for an editor to be able to review the content. CorporateM (Talk) 20:49, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks --Tsen2 (talk) 04:30, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Can a article be written about this business

Zaria & Bella's Gift Shop 135 Jay Street, Schenectady, New York 12305 Phone (518)847-3060 Contact Person Lance Dzintars. I have also placed an request with requested articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lance Dzintars (talk • contribs) 22:09, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

New article for review - Angel CoFund

Hi, after some initial drama surrounding the proposed content and oddly my username, I know that my content is being watched. I would like it if I could have some feedback/second opinions on the article found here User:IP7942/Business Angel Co-Investment Fund. I'm not sure which list to add it to on the main page or what tag to use. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks --IP7942 (talk) 15:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

My references look messy, but using Visual Editor I can't see a way to edit the view of the references without deleting them and starting over. I would very much appreciate help with this too. --IP7942 (talk) 15:35, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

New Article For Review: DRI Capital

Is anyone available to edit and evaluate the entry for DRI Capital, a firm I am affiliated with? I have written the entry and have tried to respect the formatting guidelines and templates of Wikipedia. Please forgive any errors, and thanks to anyone who can take a look.

Hankstmpr (talk) 02:12, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

No deletion alerts here?

I am looking for the alerts section of this wiki-project. Other projects use it to alert members of nominations for deletions. Anyone? Ottawahitech (talk) 18:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Agreed, I'm working on this.Pegnawl (talk) 21:33, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
Added!Pegnawl (talk) 20:45, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

References

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherpa Capital

Would you care to comment on this posting?

In addition, I am trying to find some model articles—Class B, Class A, Good article—as models for a venture capital article. I didn't see any on this project page, but perhaps they'd be posted somewhere else. If you have any input, that would be helpful!--CaroleHenson (talk) 23:45, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

NCORP

People working in this area should be aware of the current WP:NCORP guideline, which has recently become considerably more restrictive about which sources are considered usable to show notability. It is possible that some frequently used source in this area will no longer be considered acceptable for this purpose. I added a statement to that effect to the notability section of the project page. Formal guideline of course have variable strengths depending on how they are interpreted and used, but it is my personal observation that in recent months the standard seems widely accepted at AfD. DGG ( talk ) 15:54, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Fifth Wall Ventures Articles for Deletion discussion

Fifth Wall Ventures, an article about a venture capital firm, has been proposed for deletion, with the vote ending June 12, 2018. You may with to participate at: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Fifth_Wall_Ventures BC1278 (talk) 20:40, 9 June 2018 (UTC)BC1278

A new newsletter directory is out!

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User script to detect unreliable sources

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Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:56, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

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