Talk:Electric Bond and Share Company

List of Subsidiaries
Hi. I am responding to your talk page message here because it is a content related discussion. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia but we're not a company directory. This level of granular detail is not helpful for our readers where we tend to focus on prose even though it is verifiable. You have extensive prose detailing the company (which is great) and some prose about its subsidiaries is probably also appropriate without a full listing of them. Best wishes, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:37, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

I did chop about 20 of the subsidiaries - note the full collection of them is over 120, so I'm not showing the full list. A substantial number of those listed including the foreign countries have substantial histories connected to them that are mostly buried in academic writings. In some cases, as I look into some of these histories, i am finding conflicting stories between academics and the US Securities and Exchange Commission's own commentaries. Even a summary of major federal court cases, which was today's major undertaking on the page is unclear as it may take more work to find several cases. Having already placed links to some of the companies in the list, many more could have extensive documentation included since as shown, the case against Ebasco was one of the largest legal battles in government history spanning 25 years. Just a segment of federal investigation had 48,000 pages and over 90 volumes of reports affecting the power operations of the entire country at the time.

With these major court cases, it brings in large law firms and even federal historic policy during the New Deal, including several other agencies besides the SEC. I've yet to do a full review on a major history of the subject that would include further background on the company and its relationship to the Depression and the 1930s, even the roll in the 1932 election of FDR. Since there are broader U.S. policy issues that have not been fully addressed yet, and this piece is meant to be used more of a public support piece for a private electric history piece I'm in the middle of writing, combining the two, noting that it had been stripped and redirected felt like the history clearly needed to be reintroduced. When I have wrapped up, I will pare down the listing by holding group that could instead have a total of the companies if they don't represent major entities. Sadly, older SEC 9k listings were never put online or they could have been used as references... Thanks for writing back.Energynet (talk) 01:15, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Article Completion Question and Comments
So I have a wrap on this article. I'm wandering how to increase the level of importance? The fact that Ebasco was once one of the largest companies in this country and that played a major ideological role against the New Deal is of major historic interest on several fronts - that of one of the largest legal battles against the U.S. government, but also the much larger battle over public vs. private ownership. Ebasco was of course, was just one of the 1,500 private electric companies that allied to fight against public ownership nationwide. The subject itself was of national interest for the first 30 years of the 20th century but has intentionally played down by the private industry and GE's ownership of NBC. Energynet (talk) 00:33, 24 February 2019 (UTC)