Talk:BHP/Archives/2014

NPOV
Hello 76.113.103.71 (talk) 15:07, 18 January 2009 (UTC) BHP is looking into buying Freeport MacMoran in Arizona USA 76.113.103.71 (talk)

This article sounds a little out of the NPOV view.

"In 2003 after just two years at the helm, he abruptly stepped down as the board members began questioning his ambitious acquisition plans."

This is borderline.

A link to BHPstinks.com is a clear NPOV violation, as there is no controversy section in the article. I have removed that external link.

Since there are no references in the article, NPOV violations must be dealt with immediately. If you would like to post a controversial comment, please cite the source and avoid weasel words. If you find anything controversial without a source, feel free to place a tag after the sentence. For example,

BHP has been constantly under fire after the CEO began dumping near Uluru.

Press 'edit' to find out what happened there. - Note: BHP isn't dumping near Uluru, that was just an example.

Thank you! Auroranorth 07:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I cleaned up the CEO bit and the article looks reasonably clean of POV so I have removed the tag. I've also added a few cites so with a little more effort we should be able to remove the cite tag soon. Lumberjack Steve 19:04, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:59, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

World's largest primary resources company?
The first sentence of the article claimed that BHP Billiton is "the world's largest primary resources company", citing an ABC article. That article only says that it's the world's largest mining company. Oil is a primary resource and there are oil companies that dwarf BHP Billiton in terms of both revenue and profit. (See, for example the Fortune 2008 list of the 500 biggest companies: BHP Billiton is 183rd; there are six oil companies in the top ten.) So I've changed that to "the world's largest mining company". Dricherby (talk) 10:46, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Job cuts?
Should there be a discussion of the latest round of layoffs? Kirsted (talk) 08:08, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Factual Error- Nickel West
Please refer the paragraph under Nickel West. A sentence "Soon to be taken over by DC Rail Pty Ltd." looks like vandalism to the page. Can this be corrected? Thanks Vasant — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.167.15.165 (talk) 03:01, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Vasant, you are quite in your rights to remove this statement yourself if it is untrue and unreferenced. I've done just that as I can't find any sources myself. If you do remove stuff like that, just provide an edit summary, it will let people know why it was removed. Thanks for pointing it out, keep well, Calistemon (talk) 13:03, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Article reads like PR
This article reads like it is vetted daily by BHP's PR team. Seriously, the world's largest mining company, regularly accused of atrocities in 3rd world countries (rightly or wrongly, the accusations exist), doesn't merit even a token criticism section? That's beyond credibility, given the work they do. It's simply not possible for a company in this industry not to step on at least someone's toes, no matter how carefully they try to tread. *Someone*, somewhere must be critical of them. (And in reality it is a great many someones.) Makes me wonder just how many of the edits to this page are of the paid variety. &mdash; Gopher65talk 14:33, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Missing information
Missing board of governors, blurb about CEO, and especially recent newsworthy activities, such as the copper mine strike in S. America and opposition by the likes of Pierce Brosnan to the LNG platform off the California coast. This entry focuses much too heavily on the merger and not much else. - IstvanWolf 21:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

If I am not mistaken, the ore shipment port of Ponta de Ubu (ES Brazil) and the Samarco ore drying facility located in direct proximity of the port is also run by BHP Billiton. This facility is just south of Guarapari --Skippern 17:37, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Just letting people know, the paragraph on Billiton is word-for-word the same as on BHP Billiton's website (http://www.bhpbilliton.com/bb/aboutUs/companyOverview/outHistory/billitonHistory.jsp). This should probably be sourced and re-written.

"BHP Billiton is expected to acquire "pure-play" metallurgical coal producer Walter Energy as of October 2, 2014" — Did it? Dawright12 (talk) 08:38, 16 October 2014 (UTC)