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Talk:Ozius truncatus

message: This article has been revised as part of the large-scale clean-up project of a massive copyright infringement on Wikipedia. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously.
For more information on this situation, which involved a single contributor liberally copying material from print and internet sources into several thousand articles, please see the two administrators' noticeboard discussions of the matter,  here and here, as well as the the cleanup task force subpage. Thank you.  --Geronimo20 (talk) 02:14, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem
Talk:Waldorf Music Hall Records

message: GA and Command
Command was not a "subsidiary" of GA. Light founded it after leaving GA.
Waldorf couldn't be Project 1 because it wasn't exclusively Lighy's project.
Project 1 is GA, Project 2 is Command, and Project 3 is, well, Project 3.
Edited  to reflect this.
2601:740:8101:3020:2508:BB9B:5984:69CC (talk) 03:21, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Talk:Wagner Electric

message: I can't find a website for Wagner Lighting Products. Is it a subsidiary of Federal-Mogul? Biscuittin (talk) 23:31, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ownership 

message: I think electric engine may refer to an early type of electric motor using a solenoid to power a reciprocating armature which drove a crankshaft. Can anyone confirm this? Biscuittin (talk) 10:02, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electric engine
Talk:Wells Fargo Advisors

message: Wachovia Securities (the former page to this) was both a retail brokerage and the investment banking and capital markets group for Wachovia, while Wells Fargo Advisors is only the retail brokerage part.  That is the reason for the two separate pages.  Following the acquisition, these two group received different names, Wells Fargo Advisors and Wells Fargo Securities, respectively.  Because Wachovia Securities was more just the future Wells Fargo Advisors, that is the reason there needs to be two different pages.  I am still working on getting more information for the investment banking and capital markets part of the Wachovia Securities page.  Additionally, Wells Fargo Advisors incorporates parts of both Wachovia and Wells Fargo.  If you were to simply redirect old acquired company sites, then sites such as Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia, Fleet Boston, Norwest, Saloman Brothers, First Boston, Bank One, etc should also redirect and not be separate pages. Tinlash (talk) 18:14, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article goes nowhere on its own.  The only reason to split this off from the main article would be to go through additional detail about this division.  I would propose a dedicated section on Wells Fargo about Wells Fargo Advisors. |► ϋrбanяeneωaℓ • TALK ◄| 01:59, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree, Wells Fargo Advisors is a major division of a very large bank. On its own it would comfortably be a Fortune 500 business. In my view this article requires considerable expansion, not merging. There is a huge amount of content about the article subject in highly reputable sources to enable a far more comprehensive article to take shape. Rangoon11 (talk) 01:44, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposing merge 
Talk:W. R. Grace and Company

message: The parent company of W.R. Grace and Co. announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer, Ed Sparks, effective April 1, 2023. In a corresponding move, the previous CEO, Bob Patel, has been appointed President of the parent company, Standard Industries.
I work for the company and do not wish to break COI policy, so am suggesting these changes via chat. Mdallison90 (talk) 19:23, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  New CEO of W.R. Grace, Ed Sparks, as of April 1, 2023
Talk:Vulcan Real Estate

message: Updated URIs on the article 'cause we (Ai2) deployed a newly restructured website.  I am an employee of AI2. Ikeapimp (talk) 04:33, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI Notice 

message: In the interest of full transparency, I am affiliated with Vulcan Per WP:ORGNAME, I believe that this username is appropriate, and I should point out that I will be the only person to use this account. I am working to revise the article to better reflect Vulcan Inc. In my efforts to edit this page, I am also removing words in accordance to Wikipedia's Manual of Style.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordanatvulcan (talk • contribs) 01:50, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate you disclosing your WP:COI.  I also think that having someone from the company make a lot of edits to the article is not a good thing, and you would be more helpful to point out here on the Talk pages good sources that would help non-involved editors improve the article on Vulcan, or suggest areas that are plainly wrong (with sources), or suggest areas that are missing.  Heck, you could help just by formating any sources you suggest might be helpful in a standard "Cite template" way, like is done by the tool at MakeRef].  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 12:11, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI Notice
Talk:VT Group

message: We are discussing this article at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Companies#VT_Group. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 16:51, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  US subsidiary sold by Babcock in 2012
Talk:Von Roll

message: The articles Von Roll and Von Roll Holding AG are about the same company - it has a long and varied history, described in detail in the German Wikipedia at :de:Von Roll. Founded in 1803 as ironworks, the "Gesellschaft der Ludwig von Roll'schen Eisenwerke", as the company's full name was from 1823 to 1962, started manufacturing funiculars and aerial tramways (among many other things) in the early 20th century. The monorail activity came later. Several parts of Von Roll AG, as it was called from 1962 onwards, were split off and sold in the 1990s and 2000s, among them the aerial tramway manufacturing, but even the former core area, the ironworks. Nowadays it's called Von Roll Holding AG and focussing on what's described there, i.e. insulation products etc. Anyway, the articles should be merged. Gestumblindi (talk) 00:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: http://www.seilbahn-nostalgie.ch/vonrollsessel.html states that according to the Von Roll reference list there had been about 110 installations of VR 101. 87.162.85.199 (talk) 01:10, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sky Ride 101

message: This might not be in service any more; I don't know, but I am almost sure that Von Roll built a cable-suspended link between eastern Manhattan and Roosevelt Island. I rode it a few times when I lived in New York, and remember the very-distinctive builder's name. (I'd recommend checking details; perhaps Roosevelt Island's name has changed.) Regards, Nikevich (talk) 00:37, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Roosevelt Island, New York
Talk:Volvo Penta

message: Can somebody translate "Mekaniska Verkstad" (Mechanical Works?)  TREKphiler hit me ♠  14:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Say what?

message: There is a merge request on the main article page - I agree that the Volvo Penta, Marine and Industrial Engines needs merging into this Volvo Penta article.  I don't see why Volvo need TWO articles for their marine engines, yet Volkswagen Marine doesnt exist!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.75.238.104 (talk) 11:08, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Now merged and re-ordered. Still in need of more references. Warren Whyte (talk) 12:21, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Jervis Johnson

message: Need more jervis.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JONO51 (talk • contribs) 20:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hi all,
I've made some significant changes to this article in the light of Johnson's retirement from Games Workshop. Conveniently, White Dwarf 466 contained a full rundown of his career at GW, and I've used it to present a proper chronology of the work Johnson has done over the years. I've cited the magazine as the main source throughout - I do have it to hand if anyone needs to see a scan of the pages, etc. to corroborate what I've written. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geoffrey Du Babbage (talk • contribs) 11:54, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: White Dwarf 466 Overhaul
Talk:Voith

message: I would suggest a merge of family history and company history sections.. If I was writing this myself - just a suggestion.
Also maybe some images, or perhaps some other method to break up the long text could be considered. eg Timeframe lists, tree diagrams of corporate structure etc.
Otherwise keep up the good work.Carrolljon (talk) 16:48, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge, suggestions etc

message: as with any German company, this oft-forgotten period may not be detailed on the company website but still is part of the company's history  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.184.88 (talk) 21:46, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  what exactly did the company do between 1933 and 1945?
Talk:Vodafone Greece

message: This article has no citations and it should considered for deletion. 2A02:587:C82D:24B3:81BA:EE8B:F044:E24E (talk) 16:19, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion
Talk:Vizrt

message: Many of the references appear to be press-releases: http://news.creativecow.net/story/848786; are there any credible, third-party references to the events in the article? --- Safety Cap (talk) 00:37, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference quality
Talk:Vitamin Records

message: I work with Vitamin Records and I would like to try and make the page up to standards before it is deleted.  However, most of the information about our releases can be found on The String Quartet Tribute page.  Perhaps the two should be merged?  I would appreciate if anyone could help me figure out what to do about this?  Thank you. taylorl@vitaminrecords.com.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.253.107.69 (talk) 22:16, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Visqueen

message: This page should be deleted.  The brand name is VISQUEEN, not VISQUINE.  VISQUINE doesn't exist.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.253.51.94 (talk) 20:42, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather, the Visqueen article should be moved to "Visqueen (band)", which allegedly named itself after the Visqueen brand product, and this article should be moved to "Visqueen". It shold be mentioned that "Visquine" is a common misspelling of "Visqueen". —QuicksilverT @ 19:59, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete or move? 

message: Can someone more experienced please fix the "Authority Control" stuff at the bottom? This article is obviously not about the band Visqueen. I can delete it here, but I have no clue how to make it work on the page about the band. --2001:980:4818:1:200:FF:FE4E:353A (talk) 07:16, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Authority Control
Talk:Virgin Books

message: I have edited this article to mark the acquisition of Virgin Books by Random House; this will have implications for the presentation of the article, particularly its relationship to other Virgin companies and its new parent. Matthew Kilburn 17:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Random House

message: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany
http://books.google.com/books?id=SMrpDhHb1k8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=6ctGAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=sCsYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
other books
http://books.google.com/books?id=lxgaAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan (talk) 19:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publications of W. H. Allen
Talk:Virgin Active

message: Blatant advertising/ corporate page, needs editing - not encylopedia material.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.231.92 (talk) 15:01, August 25, 2007 (UTC) 
: Agree! Has Wikipedia has been bought out by Richard Branson and rebranded Virgin Pedia? Am I expecting to see articles like "ARPANET - world's first packet switched network that ultimately led to Virgin Broadband", "Exercise - healthy pursuit for human beings to engage in, particularily at Virgin Active", "Orville+Wilbur Wright - pioneers of powered flight, a technology that has reached its zenith with Virgin Atlantic"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.58.70.79 (talk) 10:14, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've had a go at improving the page but, frankly, the previous two comments are not at all constructive. What would you expect to see in the article? Longwayround (talk) 13:51, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm not sure how to go about removing it but I assume the huge photo of the back of a guy's head isn't supposed to be there... 2A00:23C6:5E02:BA00:34F8:3CDC:ECB7:2308 (talk) 19:56, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It's gone now. Thank you for pointing this out! —C.Fred (talk) 20:04, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird image at the top of the page
Talk:Vintage Books

message: At present the article says "Vintage Books is a publishing imprint established in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf."  The external links includes this time line which says "1954 - acquired Vintage Books, paperback imprint"
An Abebooks search for Vintage Books up to 1954 finds:
* 1928: "Vintage Books"
* 1931: "Vintage" paperback
* 1936: "Vintage Books"
* 1940: "Vintage" paperback
* 1942: "Vintage Books"
* 1946: "Vintage Books/ A Division of Random House, New York, 1946" paperback
* 1948: "Vintage Books/ A Division of Random House, New York, 1948" paperback
* 1951: "Vintage Books/ A Division of Random House, New York, 1951" paperback
* 1953: "Vintage Books a division of Random House, 1953"
As some booksellers are using the copyright date as the manufacturing date more research is needed.
A search of the NY Times article archive for "Vintage Books" only finds 
* July 04, 1954 "Knopf is coming up with Vintage Books, a series which will not roam around freely in the Anchorite manner"
* October 31, 1954 "Nevertheless, because of a feeling that books were too expensive on one side, and ... Vintage AFTER Anchor came Vintage, which is a Knopf. product..."
I suspect the article is accurate. I'm not an NY Times subscriber at present and so could not view the full articles. --Marc Kupper|talk 06:04, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: When Vintage books published their works they only included the year of the copyright and not the year of publication. Any example of this is here (wikisource) and another example here (Internet Archive). Year of publication and year of copyright are different. When publication year isn't displayed, most people assume the copyright year is the year of publication. I hope this clears things up for you.--Rochefoucauld (talk) 22:59, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for 1954
Talk:National Assembly (Slovenia)

message: The name of the lower house means "State Assembly". The word "drzava" means "state", "narod" means "nation". -- Noirceuil 10:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Assembly is wrong 

message: Update tag is here because the 2011 elections need to be reflected. Bagunceiro (talk) 11:49, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  2011 Elections 

message: I'm seeing conflicting information. Does the ZSD have four seats or no seats?
68.144.76.23 (talk) 00:15, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion over ZSD 
Talk:Vincent Bach Corporation

message: In the strike section, there was an unsourced statement that union retirees lost their pensions. This is contradicted by Stuckey, Mike, Little sympathy, but much at stake for strikers, MSNBC, Copyright 2009, at pro-union website www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?id=480346 retrieved 5/25/2011. That in fact states that "If the union is decertified at Conn-Selmer, local leaders say the strike would finally end and they'd lose their $200 per week strike benefits and union-paid medical insurance. But many of their members would be free to pursue retirement benefits." Retirees $6,000 life insurance policies were cancelled by the company during the strike, but there is no documentation I can find of any retiree losing his/her pension.--Rwberndt (talk) 20:45, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The footnote prior to that sentence (in the same paragraph) included this quote: "Members will no longer receive $200 weekly strike assistance checks or health insurance paid by the union, on top of being jobless, and retirees won't get their pensions back."  I'll restore the sentence you feared a "libelous" and add the citation.  The article you post is also pretty good, and I'll see if I can plug it in somewhere; although it was written months prior to the article already cited, before the end of the strike, so if they contradict on the pensions, I'd give more weight to the article that was written later. Canute (talk) 01:03, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The article cited as the source of the loss-of-pensions information remains the only source I can find for that. It was written by an intern at the paper and after some time now, repeated requests to the editorial staff of the Tribune for a fact-check have only resulted in a statement that they will contuinue to look into it. While not denying the statement, they are at present also unable to confirm.--Rwberndt (talk) 16:36, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pensions 
Talk:Slender-billed vulture

message: It might be helpful if this article was translated for Asian language wikis, where the Vultures live or have lived recently. Snowman 10:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations 

message: its life span is only 60-66 yrs  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.179.61.2 (talk) 20:27, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  the life span
Talk:Video Archives

message: Is Video Archives notable beyond the fact that QT worked there? If so, why? Please shout or will send to AfD. JoshuSasori (talk) 08:48, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I was wondering just that. If 'notability' is simply that a few famous people happened to work at a workplace for a while, then wikipedia could potentially expand but millions of pages overnight. I myself used to work in a call centre with at least 5 people (that I knew personally) who now have wikipedia pages of their own. Could I propose this little market research firm get it's own page if I were to 'name drop' a few people of varying degrees of notoriety who happened to work there for periods of time? Incidentally, was this page actually ever proposed for deletion? Or the one regarding QT's father, for that matter (a page even less useful than this one) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Tarantino Robbmonster (talk) 03:53, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable?
Talk:Child Safety and Protection Act

message: There are at least 3 versions of the name of this Act in this article:
*Child Safety and Protection Act
*The Child Protection and Safety Act
*The Children's Safety and Protection Act 
The Dru's Law website gives its Title as "An act to protect children from sexual exploitation and violent crime, to prevent child abuse and child pornography, to promote Internet safety, and to honor the memory of Adam Walsh and other child crime victims.", and also calls it "Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act of 2006". There is also the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which I believe this article should be merged into. --duncan 11:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree...this article, until you posted the merge, hadn't been edited since last October. As far as I am concerned, merge any info that isn't mentioned in this article into Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.--MONGO 11:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I went ahead and moved the text and created a redirect to the main article. This talkpage could be deleted unless there is someone who seriously opposes the merge and if so we can always figure out what to do next.--MONGO 11:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Vertrue

message: Hi all, 
This appears to be problematic, and am surprised it has not been discussed before.  It would seem to me that the article, as it stands would appear to be better titled "Consumer concerns and lawsuits about Vertrue", as there the majority of the text is about this; there is very little on what the company actually does.  I'm seeing also seeing primary sources - reporters - for the lawsuits, instead of secondary sources - see WP:PRIMARY--Shirt58 (talk) 09:24, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lawsuits section and legal action in general 
Talk:Vertex Pharmaceuticals

message: A template on the article, dating back to 2007, argues its neutrality, pointing to the talk page. Neither this page, nor its history, indicates any basis for the challenge. If no one objects, I'll remove the template. Bustter (talk) 01:56, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: comment

message: BLP outweighs most possible benefits for inclusion, but the fact this was just a social media scandal makes it clearly UNDUE in the article about the company. If the individual in question as an article, put it there. Otherwise it should stay out. EvergreenFir (talk) 02:36, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social media scandal
Talk:Verso Books

message: I removed the United States from the infobox's line regarding country of origin.  the company is more likely Great Britain. The book company's name derives from the British journal, New Left Review.  The great majority of authors in the first decade of New Left Books' history were British or continental European authors in translation, none of this reflective of a United States-based publishing company.  Lastly, there is no reference citation for the assertion that this company has a United States origin.Dogru144 (talk) 00:34, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing of infobox; country of origin British

message: Keine Kritik am Bolschewismus!  (imho quite bizarre) --Neun-x (talk) 13:08, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  rejects the publishing of a book of [[Ulrich Herbert]]
Talk:Verint Systems

message: Like most large companies, there are a lot of press releases to sift through, but I was able to find substantial third-party news coverage of the company over a period of several years, covering issues ranging from its mergers with other companies (Mercom, Opus, Witness) to its delisting from NASDAQ due to a stock options scandal. This information needs to be incorporated into the article, but the subject does seem sufficiently notable to have an article. --RL0919 (talk) 01:43, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Evidently those press releases omitted to mention the fact that the company's founder/former top exec has fled to Namibia to escape international warrants for his arrest on fraud charges. 166.147.104.152 (talk) 13:26, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: They also offer a security force that was present during the London Bombings and will soon be here in Canada during the 2010 Olympic Winter Gamess in Vancouver. There should be a page on this as well.
142.68.231.53 (talk) 00:58, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a software company that makes security products, but I'm not aware of any security "force". Do you have a reliable source for this information? --RL0919 (talk) 04:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security Force 