Talk:Burger King/Archive 3

message: All of the burger kings I have been to now offer free wifi for an hour when you buy something there. When you buy something, you ask the cashier for use of the hotspot and they print off a ticket for you to login on. Anyway, google shows up the usual war driving results when you look up "burger king wifi" So there's not much else I can add. 207.81.213.37 11:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Burger King HotSpot info

message: Burger King has made a comeback in Poland. So the flag should be added as well as info, however I can't do it as editing is disabled for me. Today (7 feb. 2007) Amrest (the polish operater of Pizza Hut / KFC) has started Burger King's second expansion in Poland with a restaurant in the new Zlote Tarasy shopping center in Warsaw.
That's true, but as for today (18.02.07) that Burger King restaurant is still closed - there is even no logo on walls, that covers still not opened restaurant... We can check that this will be a Burger King only by looking onto information boards with plans. Mibars
The Burger King restaurant in Zlote Tarasy has opened a couple of days ago (around May 7th 2007 or so). Somebody please update the list of countries (add Poland).
I'm a Bulgarian and have never heard that there is Burger King in Bulgaria. Please, check it, because it must be hidden somewhere /i live in Sofia and Varna - the two cities with biggest chances of having BK) (82.199.193.217 17:04, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: changes needed

message: Someone vandalised the page seapreating half of the page and putting things like Yucky and Poop in the middle of the page. I say we fix this up before it gets worse if it dose I say we disable editing.Sonic34 19:15, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The edit history makes it clear who the "someone" was. Please don't do it again, as other editors just have to follow you about and undo what you did. Same goes for your edit] to Phone. Tonywalton  | Talk 19:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

text: This article has been subject to a lot of vandalism recently. Just a few moments ago, the entire article was replaced by a juvenile and irrelevant narrative paragraph.  Perhaps if this continues, this article should be locked. Eaghassi 09:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I have done a ton of work on it and am removing vandalism on a daily basis. It has been replaced several times with moronic attempts at humor. Jerem43 18:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I have seen the same for far too long. I've lodged a semi-protection request. thewinchester 01:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Semi-protection request was declined. Advice is to keep on the watchlist and revert changes accordingly. I'll still be monitoring and if it gets out of hand again i'll re-lodge the request. thewinchester 01:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is now off semi-protection, and hopefully they'll be no further problems. thewinchester 11:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I've taken a look at the recent issues, and have re-requested protection. thewinchester 16:00, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: This entire section has now been removed from the article as it was becomming an exact copy of the article Burger King advertising and causing this one to become way too long. thewinchester 01:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertising 

message: The information that BK Restaurants have been targeted by Insurgents is unnecssairy. This part is unbalanced and poltical. Many Western (and non-Western) targets have been attacked in Iraq, and across the world Burger-King and other Fast Food Restaurants have been attacked, vandalised etc. for various reasons. So I see no need to emphasize this. Burger King is still present in Iraq and Halal, which is the only relevant information, unless we start to include all attacks on BKs for the other countries.
Sallah —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.153.112.217 (talk) 04:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burger King in Iraq 

message: Came across name removed as a resource that has link removed...you can do a search for any city and it shows you what's open there - including Burger Kings.
Nconada 07:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do not add commercial links, either in the article or in the talk page. LDHan 10:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  BK Opening Hours 

message: :Image:Burger King Logo.svg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Burger King Logo.svg

message: I think the map and the article on this page should accommodate the fact that Burger King's premier outlet has opened in April in Jakarta's Senayan City mall. According to this source (Newspaper in Indonesian) it is Burger King's biggest outlet in Southeast Asia (600m2). Btw Burger King has already entered Indonesian markets in late 1980s but was unsuccessful and withdrew (it is said in the article as well). 58.178.214.121 10:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indonesia's Burger King 

message: In the history section, the sentence "In 1997, Grand Metropolitan merged with Guinness to form a company called Diageo"  should be clarified. What is "Grand Metropolitan"? Why is it important to mention their merger with Guinness? //Knuckles 06:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear  

message: There is no Burger King restaurant in Bulgaria (Not only it is not listed on burgerking.com but I am pretty sure we do not have one here)
:It could be on a US military base. Some locations listed here are only in US military bases. They mostly clearly specify but IMHO it doesn't make sense to list countries where they are only located at US military bases and we should specify seperarely in a US military base section. Alternatively, perhaps it's at an airport? Nil Einne 09:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bulgaria 

message: The following statement was removed because it was un-sourced and I could not find one. I placed here so if any one can properly cite it it can be put back into the main article - (Jerem43 05:20, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced statement

message: Hello,
The user Michaelbeckham recently made a unilateral decision to excise a large section of the Burger King article, delete the redirect from Hungry Jack's to the BK page and place all about HJ information from the BK article  on to the former redirect page. This edit was done without consulting any other editors and see if there was consensus about doing this. He also failed to properly note the move and the reasons for the move in the edit log and failed to correct any redirect errors that were created as a result of the move. I have reinstated the text and am asking that Michael please refrain from doing this again without first posting an appropriate discussion on this page about this type of move.
If you would like to move section to a new article, please take the following steps:
# Tag the section with the  template
# Create the discussion on the proper talk page
# Wait for consensus
While understand his reasoning for the move, from personal experience I know that an editor must follow the Wikipedia guidelines when making major changes to the structure of an existing article so that other contributors work can be properly credited, that the changes are done following accepted consensus and why doing something like this improperly can cause issues (like on the BK products section move in April of this year).
- Jeremy (Jerem43 07:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Consensus is fine in some cases, but there is enough material to move to its own article. It is notable and a separate entity. I am puzzled why its part of the BK article in the first place seeing as they have separate ownerships. - Mike Beckham 08:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hungry Jacks is different enough, has enough content and is notable enough for its own article. Not a section on this. I see no GOOD reason to not move it. Unless you can get a consensus against it, I think it is time for it be moved. - Mike Beckham 03:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

text: There is no consensus or even any interest either way. Your the only one contesting a move. - Mike Beckham 04:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hungry Jack's move

message: It has been proposed that the Hungry Jack's section of this article be moved into its own article by 
Mike Beckham. Please take this time to comment on the proposal. Please remember that there must be a consensus for the move, not against it.
- Jeremy (Jerem43 05:02, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Split proposal

message: Please check  out this review to help improve this article.  SriMesh | talk 03:56, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Where was this issue?
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You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, SriMesh | talk 03:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Peer review/Automated/October 2007#Burger King|Burger King Semi Auto Peer Review]]

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*Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.[?]
*Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide context for the article.[?]
:Where was this issue?
*Per Wikipedia:What is a featured article?, Images should have concise captions.[?]
*Avoid including galleries in articles, as per Wikipedia:Galleries. Common solutions to this problem include moving the gallery to wikicommons or integrating images with the text.[?]
*Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 4 pound, use 4 pound, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 4 pound.[?]
*Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006.[?]
*Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==.[?]
*There are a few sections that are too short and that should be either expanded or merged.  
*Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
**Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant -  “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”
*As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.[2][?]
*Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.[?]
You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, SriMesh | talk 03:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The issues

message: You have an expand template on your article... fix that before renominating. --Rschen7754 (T C) 05:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: it was leftover from earlier and I had forgotten to remove it. I had expanded the section from two sentences to two paragraphs and added appropriate citations. - Jeremy (Jerem43 06:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Failed GA

message: Hello,
I reverted the last edit by Maestrosync because it undid the edits required by the WP:MoS section for lead sections. This article is under consideration for WP:GA and this edit would have partially disqualified it for GA status.
- Jeremy (Jerem43 03:51, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Last edit revert

message: Upon its review on October 23, 2007, this good article nomination was quick-failed because it:
contains cleanup banners including, but not limited to, , , , , etc, or large numbers of , , , or similar tags
thus making it ineligible for good article consideration.
This article did not receive a thorough review, and may not meet other parts of the good article criteria.  Galleries are not permitted in articles under Wikipedia policy. I encourage you to remedy this problem (and any others) and resubmit it for consideration.  If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to have it reassessed.  Thank you for your work so far.--Esprit15d 20:49, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Renominate it, and I'll give it a thorough once over.--Esprit15d 02:47, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been renominated. - Jeremy (Jerem43 05:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Failed "good article" nomination

message: This article's Good Article promotion has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write.  This is how the article, compares against the  six good article criteria:
1. Well written:  Some editions need here to be boarded by the manual of the style: Words to Avoid
2. Broad in coverage:  The article is well broad in coverage
3. Neutral point of view:  The article counts on a very good neutral point of view.
4. Stability of the article?  Not the subject of any recent or on-going edit wars.
5. Images:  The deficiency of images is not a step/criteria of fall. Anyway, the images have a very good quality.
Please address these matters soon and then leave a note below showing how they have been resolved.  After 48 hours the article should be reviewed again.  If these issues are not addressed within 7 days, the article may be failed without further notice.  Thank you for your work so far. Macys123. 19:54, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Nominee 

message: Well written! I don't see anything wrong with it. However, I do want to suggest that you expand the "global locations" section, perhaps how burger king is doing in other countries? I think you could have some more pictures, but its pretty good now. I think this article deserves GA status. Good friend100 22:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That will come with the FA work I intend to do once I finally get the GA status. - Jeremy (Jerem43 01:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA review by goodfriend100 

message: Is the amount of annual revenue listed correct? If so then that would make Burger King the #1 burger joint in the world by annual revenue, as this exceeds that of McDonalds! 74.65.39.59 18:40, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ah,it's now been corrected to $2.4 billion. Ok then! 74.65.39.59 18:50, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Listed Revenue

message: *if 90% of the franchises restaurants are privately owned and operated, are the employees of these franchises really employees of the Burger King corp? If not, then the statement about the number of Burger King employees should be revised.
::Fixed, some one else had that number, proper number is 37,000
*if the business was established in 1954, then why does the lead describe the menu as having evolved since 1955?
::Fixed, typo
*"Chart House, owner of 350 restaurants" - Burger King restaurants or restaurants in general?
::Fixed, clarified
*"Burger King had fallen to a near tie for second place with Wendy's in the US market" - 2nd place in what specifically ( for example, 2nd place in sales among franchise fast food burger  restaurants)
::Fixed, clarified
ike9898 22:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  minor questions to address before GA 

message: (This comment was moved from the AfD discussion on the Burger King product articles)
* Is anyone going to fix the BK infobox, it needs to be one color. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean the company template at the bottom? The colored lines are a function of the template itself and are in all similar template boxes. - Jeremy (Jerem43 (talk) 02:16, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox layout

message: "The Hootses were granted exclusive rights to the Burger King trade mark in 20 mile (32 km) of their original location in Mattoon."
IN is usually used for a place name of a place that is large enough to be inside (like a city or a country).
I think WITHIN would be more appropriate since we are talking about a range unless a word indicating range is used:
within 20 miles (32 km)
in a 20 mile (32 km) radius
I assume this is a typo, and believe that within 20 miles is the most appropriate correction. --Hydenobuyuki (talk) 07:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trademark Disputes typo 

message: Hi, I live in Miami, FL. I see that in the article, there aren't any image of the headquoter building of Burger King. If you need, I could go take a picture of it. They are very close to the Miami International Airport, and I've passed by it a couple of times. I guess I'm going to have to do it for free, but its great if someone can help me pay for the gas :) --Mitchipr (talk) 14:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need image of headquoter building?