Talk:Sud Aviation

message: There seems to be an inconsistency between these details in the info box.  The sequence of events is fairly unambiguous: Sud merged into  Aérospatiale which in turn merged into EADS.  However the infobox seems to imply that Sud continued to exist within Aérospatiale but ceased to exist within EADS.  You can make a convincing argument either way but since both transitions were mergers treating them differently in this manner seems inconsistent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CrispMuncher (talk • contribs) 
:I've removed EADS, since it is not a direct successor, and moved Aérospatiale to the "Successor" field. Infoboxes are meant simply to present a brief overview of information, not a complete history. Further expansion should be limited to the text.  - BillCJ (talk) 22:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fate and successor in info box 

message: No mention of the pioneering work of SA, eventually becoming the world's leading helicopter manufacturer?
See: Alouette, Frelon, Puma.
--BjKa (talk) 14:19, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: So fix it. - BilCat (talk) 14:55, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I fixed it myself, only 4 years late! :) - BilCat (talk) 07:55, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "products: jet aircraft" 

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message: The article is currently named Sud Aviation, but the lead sentence uses only the form Sud-Aviation, and both versions are used in the text.  The corresponding French Wikipedia article uses Sud-Aviation consistently.
This makes sense if the unhyphenated form is/was typical usage in English, but if that's the case the article should talk about it.  If it's just carelessness, it should be fixed. --76.71.5.208 (talk) 18:44, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can tell, the form without the hyphen is the one normally used in English. It was used in the Lead until changed about 3 years ago without discussion by a French speaker. I've reverted to the standard form. As far as mentioning the difference, without a source that addresses the use of the hyphen in this name, about all we can do is to add the French form without comment, as we usually do with words in other languages. I do note that the other Latin-character Wikipedias all appear to use the unhyphenated form. - BilCat (talk) 19:38, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  The french wikipedia has the definitive reference on that: the 30 december 1969 decree creating Sud-Aviation, with an hyphen:  The hyphen may have been subsequently lost in later publications, then widespread in the english-speaking press, and then in the english wikipedia which is authoritative in other wikipedias.--Marc Lacoste (talk) 06:54, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Marc. For now, I propose that we add "Sud-Aviation" as the official French name with the source, and leave it that. I hope we can avoid a situation like developed at Talk:Aérospatiale#aerospatiale without accent! That argument lasted for 4 years, and even spread to French Wikipedia, where a consensus was finally achieved. - BilCat (talk) 07:52, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphen