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	1	3	3	3	1	11
	FL			3	10		13
	A		1	1			2
	GA	3	6	17	14	4	44
	B	36	97	95	28	29	285
	C	8	21	53	48	42	172
	Start	24	109	294	401	463	1291
	Stub		36	190	640	665	1531
	List		3	2	119	25	149
	Assessed	72	276	658	1263	1229	3498
	Unassessed	2	13	12	14	2246	2287
	Total	74	289	670	1277	3475	5785

Article Alerts

Proposed deletion

• 24 Dec 2009 – Trenway Textiles Inc (talk) has been deleted.
• 23 Dec 2009 – Adlib Software (talk) proposed for deletion by Orangemike.
• 23 Dec 2009 – Blue Marble Geographics (talk) proposed for deletion by MrOllie.
• 18 Dec 2009 – Tent Records (talk) has been deleted.
• 16 Dec 2009 – Instantiations (talk) has been deleted.

Articles for deletion

• 21 Dec 2009 – Blambot (talk) nominated for deletion by Polarpanda; see discussion.
• 21 Dec 2009 – Vignesrealm Motion Pictures (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
• 11 Dec 2009 – Horizon Technologies (talk) nominated for deletion by The Founders Intent; see discussion.

Good article nominations

• 24 Dec 2009 – EasyJet (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Wexcan.
• 16 Dec 2009 – Steorn (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Meco.

Good article reassessment

• 9 Dec 2009 – Nokian Tyres (talk) is nominated for a community reassessment by Jezhotwells; see discussion.

Requested moves

• 26 Dec 2009 – Move requested from Goldline International, Inc. (talk) to Goldline International by Cptnono; see discussion.
• 26 Dec 2009 – RadioShack (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 24 Dec 2009 – Move requested from Airport Express Train (talk) to Oslo Airport Express Train by Sladen; see discussion.
• 17 Dec 2009 – Ram (brand) (talk) was not moved; see discussion.

Other news

• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

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