On 5/14/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/15/07, Philippe Beaudette <philippebeaudette(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that horse has pretty much left the
barn, hasn't it? We've
got companies all over the wiki.
If anything, we have a massive shortage of company-related articles.
According to Geoffrey Kohs (of WikiBiz fame), the large majority of
Fortune 500 companies don't even have Wikipedia articles.
Many people seem to be biased against articles on for-profit
businesses. That's the real POV we should be trying to correct.
I find the "large majority" idea quite improbable, so I just went through
and checked numbers 401-500 of the 2007 Fortune 500 list. In only 3 cases
could I not find an article about the company at all - Reliance Steel, Liz
Claiborne Inc. (redirects to a biography of Liz Claiborne), and Aleris
International. There were quite a few that were quite short (I counted 19
very short articles, by a totally subjective measure).
Note that we have the article [[Fortune 1000]], which shows blue links for
all 500 on the 2006 list but is somewhat unreliable for this metric since a
number of the company names actually point to common words rather than
articles about the company. But it does show pretty conclusively that we do
heavily cover the (American) Fortune 500 companies.
-- Jonel