Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of acquisitions by Google
- The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.
The list was promoted 17:58, 31 March 2008.
I am nominating this as a WP:FL because I think it is up for it. Here is phase one and phase two. Gary King (talk) 00:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Question: really no acquisitions in the last four months? Hard to believe. Renata (talk) 04:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Matthew
Comment I'd really like for each acquisition to be linkable, so I know what they all are. Also, why isn't the dollar amount given for each acquisition? -- Matthew
Support Concerns addressed, meets criteria. Another good list. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 18:15, 27 March, 2008
CommentSupport Thanks. Great list, but blogs shouldn't appear in the citations per WP:RS, Eg. ZDnet and TechCrunch. PeterSymonds | talk 21:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments Hey Gary, some comments for you before I can support.
- Avoid links in the emboldedened lead per WP:LEAD#Bold_title
- Addressed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterSymonds (talk • contribs)
- Kaltix redirects to Web search engine - perhaps a real article could be created? Similarly ZipDash redirects to Traffic - perhaps you need an article here instead. There are several of these, I'm not 100% happy with the company name simply redirecting to the nature of their business.
- Value column could be right aligned to stack the commas neatly.
- Consider adding an link to this list in the Google template.
- already existing Gary King (talk) 03:46, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry, am I being slow? I can see this article linked to in {{Google Inc.}} at all... The Rambling Man (talk) 11:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I think you're missing a few letters in your sentence... anyways, in {{Google Inc.}}, next to See also, the list is linked to via Acquisitions. Gary King (talk) 18:03, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry, am I being slow? I can see this article linked to in {{Google Inc.}} at all... The Rambling Man (talk) 11:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- already existing Gary King (talk) 03:46, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support my concerns have been well addressed, well done. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - The words "made by" in the title are potentially misleading (Google did not "make" these businesses). No other list in Category:Acquisitions includes that locution. Can this be renamed to List of acquisitions by Google or (better) List of Google acquisitions? --Orlady (talk) 18:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment What is the reason for "see also" links to List of acquisitions by Yahoo! and List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation but not linking to the similar lists for Apple, Oracle, Cisco, and IBM (as well as any others I may have forgotten)? (There likely is a good reason for selectively linking to these two, but if the reason for the selection cannot be articulated, the list may need to be either expanded or trimmed.) --Orlady (talk) 19:40, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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