Talk:Historical components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

As not static from founding through 1999, we seem to have an enormous hole in this article. At least something should be added noting that pre-1999 is not covered until this article can claim to approach dealing with the title topic. -- Infrogmation (talk) 00:03, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Request short note for each entry stating who came and who left
I know I can scan the lists of 30 and look for changes, but that can be a bit of a tedious task. Thanks.DavidRF (talk) 03:00, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Request definition of *
I assume that the * indicates changes in the index composition, but it doesn't say so explicitly on the page.

Additionally, there seems to be some disagreement between this page and other wikipedia articles. For example, Woolworth is shown as part of the index in 1991, but the Woolworth page says Walmart replaced it in 1991, not 1997. In contrast, Disney first appears in the 1991 table, the year its page says it was added to the index.

As I'm unsure whether this is because of a formatting issue in the tables, or because one of the pages is inaccurate, I'm not touching anything for now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.97.168.13 (talk) 18:23, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikilinked entries
The current Wikilinking of business names in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is confusing and unhelpful. Currently, the names are Wikilinked once only: the last occasion the business was still in the DJIA. In my view, this is the wrong approach for a historical article where the most recent entries appear at the top of the article and the oldest appear at the bottom. The next time that the DJIA changes, the most recent entries, currently for 14 September 2012, will all have to be unlinked if they are still in the DJIA and then relinked in the table for their new, continued entry in the DJIA.

In my view, either the business name in the chronological table in the article needs to be Wikilinked the first historical instance that the name appears in the DJIA, or, more conveniently, it needs to be Wikilinked every time it appears. For example, in this article the first historical instance of Chicago & North Western Railway is on 3 July 1884 (the first time the business was in the DJIA) but is not Wikilinked until the fourth appearance of the name in the DJIA on 9 April 1894 (the last time the business was in the DJIA). Hence, currently, the reader needs to scan manually up through the different chronological entries, starting with 3 July 1884, in order to see if a business name is Wikilinked later on even though it's first, second and third etc occurrences may not be. This is tedious and would be unnecessary if the simple expediency of Wikilinking the entry for each separate tabular entry were adopted.

Further, in my view, when a business is no longer in the DJIA, all its previous entries need to be differentiated in some way from those businesses still in the DJIA, for example by the use of italics, or bold, or underlining etc. Then if one adopts a bottom up historical approach, ie starting in 3 July 1884, and moving up through the list from the past to the present (rather than down through the list from the present to the past) one would learn straightaway from the entry's different accentuation that a business has dropped out of the DJIA. This would mean, of course, that if a business has dropped out of the DJIA, an editor would have to go through and change the accentuation used for the business' previous entries but I think this is nonetheless the most straightforward approach here. 124.186.221.219 (talk) 07:20, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Company names and nicknames
Is there a reason why the historical lists have companies' full names, such as "E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company" and "The Boeing Company" which the most-recent list has shorter nicknames like "Dupont" and "Boeing"? Shouldn't these various lists be consistent? Ebhymowitz (talk) 18:57, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * the below page seems to have some historical component changes through 2015.
 * https://www.wsj.com/graphics/djia-components-history/ Ksu6500 (talk) 19:23, 27 August 2022 (UTC)