Talk:Allergan, Inc.

message: === Actavis to Allergan Merger ===
I work for Makovsky, the communications partner for Allergan. As of today, Actavis has transitioned to the name Allergan and we would like to have a redirect/merger of the two pages. Historical background on Actavis will be maintained on the new Allergan page. Appreciate your help. LANEYC (talk) 16:16, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's obvious these articles were in a horrendous mess, no one could understand what happened acquisition wise, therefore I have taken the following steps:
# – renamed the Allergan article to Allergan, inc, this article details everything about the old Allergan, up to it's acquisition by Actavis, plc. I have removed info relating to Actavis, plc and any information about acquisitions post-merger.
# – restructured the Actavis, plc article to show it's original history, i.e its Watson dealings, Warner Chilcott and Forest labs acqusitions. I have (tried) to make it clear that Actavis still exists as the US Generics division of the company
# – finally, I created a new article Allergan, plc which details everything post-merger, specifically the name change from Actavis, plc to Allergan, plc and any post deal acquisitions.
I think the cladograms help give an overview. XyZAn (talk) 19:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

text: Unfortunately, you spelled it the wrong way, without capitalization. The correct name of the now-defunct American entity was Allergan, Inc. Corporate names are always marked with capital letters in American English: Inc., Corp., P.C., LLC, etc. I'm not an admin so I can't fix this, so this mess is stuck that way until an admin can get in to rename the article properly. --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:06, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: I work for Makovsky, the communications partner for Allergan. As of today, Actavis has transitioned to the name Allergan and we would like to have a redirect/merger of the two pages. Historical background on Actavis will be maintained on the new Allergan page. Appreciate your help. LANEYC (talk) 16:16, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actavis to Allergan Merger 

message: :It's obvious these articles were in a horrendous mess, no one could understand what happened acquisition wise, therefore I have taken the following steps:
# – renamed the Allergan article to Allergan, inc, this article details everything about the old Allergan, up to it's acquisition by Actavis, plc. I have removed info relating to Actavis, plc and any information about acquisitions post-merger.
# – restructured the Actavis, plc article to show it's original history, i.e its Watson dealings, Warner Chilcott and Forest labs acqusitions. I have (tried) to make it clear that Actavis still exists as the US Generics division of the company
# – finally, I created a new article Allergan, plc which details everything post-merger, specifically the name change from Actavis, plc to Allergan, plc and any post deal acquisitions.
I think the cladograms help give an overview. XyZAn (talk) 19:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, you spelled it the wrong way, without capitalization. The correct name of the now-defunct American entity was Allergan, Inc. Corporate names are always marked with capital letters in American English: Inc., Corp., P.C., LLC, etc. I'm not an admin so I can't fix this, so this mess is stuck that way until an admin can get in to rename the article properly. --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:06, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Actions taken October 2015

message: On behalf of Allergan, and as part of my work for Beutler Ink, I have some simple updates to offer here to differentiate the Wikipedia articles for Allergan and Allergan, Inc. Currently, this article does not clearly show that Allergan Inc. is defunct, and editors can review previous discussion about this above.
For this article, I suggest:
* adding the following sentence to the end of the introduction: 
* in the infobox, using the "defunct" parameter (see :Template:Infobox company) to add the date ""
* tense changes throughout the article's prose (such as "is a company" to "was a company"), since Allergan, Inc. no longer exists.
These changes will hopefully help to clarify to readers that the company is defunct. I am curious, are there other updates that can be made to the article to further differentiate these two companies? 
 I know I've already pinged you to review a request for the other article, but since these are related, I figured I'd ping you here, too, in case you are interested, and given your past work on the article. Of course, I am open to feedback from other editors as well.
Thank you. Inkian Jason (talk) 20:38, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed changes to differentiate Allergan plc and Allergan Inc.