Talk:Shire (pharmaceutical company)

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Shire.gif

message: Suggest that Shire plc be moved to Shire (pharmaceutical company) in keeping with the desire to keep things like "inc", "plc" and similar out of article titles. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:34, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested move 

message: I think that the changes under "Operations" reflected in the diff http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shire_plc&diff=515965025&oldid=512239205 are unfortunate and move the section toward a non-neutral point-of-view.  I'm posing this for discussion here rather than unilaterally revising the section. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:39, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undesirable revisions -- moving toward advertisement-type content 

message: :Shire plc →  – Move would bring the article into alignment with company naming guidelines as noted at WP:NCCORP User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 12:03, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move 20 October 2014

message: The following is moved here because there is neither a general source for the information, nor specific sources for each entry. It and the table are a bad precedent, and simply invite further additions without verifiability. It is placed here to save the content, until someone can take the time, to provide a source for all of the content, or individual sources of the entries appearing:
===Acquisition history===
The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list):
I would also note that the clade approach is misapplied here: it is very difficult to maintain (i.e., for others to add new entries), confusing to add citations should they be found, and demands WP:OR when a found source does not fully make clear the relationship of an acquisition to earlier ones. (Inherent to biological clade-type presentations, which contains not only the entry information, but also the pictorial information, is information on the relationships between entries, through the lengths of lines, both horizontal and vertical.) It is my relatively informed opinion, that this information, when sourced and returned, would be better presented as a table. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 16:59, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: it doesnt really add any risk of further unsourced additions does it, really?? In less than 5 minutes with google i found each source, quite possibly the easiest thing ever. With more complex and older companies (ie., Pfizer for example) the clades more easily show predecessor and successors and with wikilinks - make them easy to navigate through. XyZAn (talk) 18:27, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced, undated, unverifiable presentation of company information

message: The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list):
I would also note that the clade approach is misapplied here: it is very difficult to maintain (i.e., for others to add new entries), confusing to add citations should they be found, and demands WP:OR when a found source does not fully make clear the relationship of an acquisition to earlier ones. (Inherent to biological clade-type presentations, which contains not only the entry information, but also the pictorial information, is information on the relationships between entries, through the lengths of lines, both horizontal and vertical.) It is my relatively informed opinion, that this information, when sourced and returned, would be better presented as a table. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 16:59, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: it doesnt really add any risk of further unsourced additions does it, really?? In less than 5 minutes with google i found each source, quite possibly the easiest thing ever. With more complex and older companies (ie., Pfizer for example) the clades more easily show predecessor and successors and with wikilinks - make them easy to navigate through. XyZAn (talk) 18:27, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Acquisition history

message: The following list of company products lost its sourcing in the article. It was tagged as unsupported by the text, in the lead. This is not helpful. Can someone find a published source, that is not the company, that lists all or many of these products? That way we can re-add the list (or at least part of it) to the lead, without tags:
It makes sense not to have material in the lead that is not sourced. It also makes helps to differentiate what is and is not sourced, in a list. But since all of these are not sourced, it becomes cumbersome. Finding an independently published source seems the best option. Thanks. 50.153.159.45 (talk) 17:51, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Unhelpful lead list moved here for discussion

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*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20150402130558/http://www.shire.com/shireplc/uploads/report/Q4-2014-Earnings-Release-results-day-final-12-Feb-2015.pdf to http://www.shire.com/shireplc/uploads/report/Q4-2014-Earnings-Release-results-day-final-12-Feb-2015.pdf
*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20130413012313/http://www.shire.com:80/shireplc/en/investors/investorsnews/irshirenews?id=695 to http://www.shire.com/shireplc/en/investors/investorsnews/irshirenews?id=695
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