Talk:GTE

message: GTE Telephone World Operations was located in Irving TX.  The actual corporate entity was never really in TX.  I think the Texas tag should be removed.
Emory Davis
GTE Marketing Services-Retired
75.2.57.255 (talk) 04:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

message: Much of the GT&E history can be found at this link:  http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/GTE-Corporation-Company-History.html
It should be used as a reference to compose a good, concise history
67.79.255.147 07:37, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GTE History 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: Per above, I've removed a lot of copyvio from the History section/subsections of this article due to copyvios of International Directory of Company Histories into Wikipedia. I reworded some of this so the history section wouldn't be completely bare. Specifically. I did rewording of History and General Telephone sections. However, I removed a lot from the 1980s and 1990s sections. If someone would like to expand the sections or completly rewrite all of these sections (including the ones I did), please feel free to. However, I highly encourage that no copyrighted material from this source or any other sources to be included as well. Thank you! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:33, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio of History section 

message: I may be slow or a poor reader, but i'm blessed if i can see the link between the current first section under History and the second; the first is all about a company organised in Wisconsin, eventually named Associated Telephone Company or Utilities which went out of business by 1933, and the second talks about the establishment of the General Telephone Corporation in 1935.  The lead asserts that the latter was a reorganisation (whatever exactly that means for a business that was gone at least two years earlier) of the former, but that's it ~ though the lead is only supposed to summarise the body of the article, not include information not found in the article.  If i am very wrong (which i do rather hope) and the link is there, just invisible to me, please feel free to point it out to me; as it is, though, the first History section feels entirely out of place in this article. Happy days ~ LindsayHello 15:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Honestly, I'm with you. I see no ink offered between the defunct Associated Telephone and GTE. Seems like it's inappropriately linking something without evidence. oknazevad (talk) 02:54, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I will note that figuring out why this is here is very difficult because massive portions of the edit history (some 12 years of edits) were removed because of copyright violations. Just feels like that material should be removed unless some actual link can be shown. oknazevad (talk) 03:01, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: So, i've gone ahead and removed the first paragraph about the Wisconsin company.  Of course, it is in the article history, so can easily be retrieved if it turns out i am incorrect and there is a link.... Happy days, ~ LindsayHello 18:18, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link between companies?