geni wrote:
2008/6/3 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
Articles on past publicly traded corporations would be interesting for everyone who pulls an old stock certificate from a trunk in the attic and starts to wonder what ever happened to that company.
However in many cases there will not be enough info to write a NPOV article. For example an article on say the Salisbury and Southampton Canal company that simply listed it's dates of founding and collapse would be somewhat misleading since it might lead the person to think that at some point the company was doing okay at least.
Now in practice most publicly listed companies will have generated some news coverage so it is possible to write a NPOV article on them but a data dump from company house isn't the way to do it.
There's an amazing amount of information available if one knows where to look. I recently encountered a series of "Moody's Industrials" from the 1930s and 1940s available cheap on eBay. I didn't bid on them since I already have more than enough potential projects on other topics, but it's the kind of thing that would be a valuable reference for an interested person.
The relationship between lists and articles for each list element should be a matter of common sense, and it should be viewed as expansive rather than contractive. If we can say everything that can be said about the subject in one line of information in a table with similar items that is a good basis. We begin with that, and if there is any additional information available there is a basis for an article. Contracting into a list is never a good idea if it means a loss on information.
Ec