Talk:List of companies of the United Arab Emirates

External links and redlinks
This article looks to be a bit of a link magnet - anyone who wants to shove a link to their company website comes here or one of the other List of companies in X country articles. Unless there are any objections - I'm going to clean house and remove all external links. One of the main purposes of a List of article is to provide a central link to wikipedia articles around a particular topic, they can also be used to monitor changes to groups of articles and keep lists of articles to be written - they should not be a collection of weblinks or even a comprehensive list of ALL companies. Just the important (or notable if you prefer) ones. Paxse 16:40, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Done, for now. I'll keep it on my watchlist. Paxse 18:16, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Reformatted list and trimmed - scope - help needed to expand and improve
I have reformatted the list in order to improve it due to this Articles for deletion nomination. In compiling the list, I have firstly used the lists of companies which are listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Market and the Dubai Financial Market, and have also added more well known privately owned companies which aren't listed on either stock exchange (Emirates for example). I have also attempted to add the Arabic names of these companies, however, due to not speaking Arabic, and not being able to read Arabic script, I am unsure whether the Arabic names are correct. Perhaps another editor/s who are fluent in Arabic could check the Arabic name and confirm they are correct and correct where necessary. For those companies listed on the Abu Dhabi market, I have used the official listing of companies from the AUH market, and for those companies listed on the Dubai market, I have used their list. Other companies, I have used the corresponding article on the Arabic WP, or their articles (if they exist).

Additionally, I have narrowed the scope of the list, as it was a spam magnet. As part of narrowing the scope, I have moved the page from List of companies in the United Arab Emirates to it's current location, List of companies of the United Arab Emirates; of the UAE denoting that these are companies which are domiciled in the UAE, meaning that the company is legally an UAE entity. An editor added Halliburton, as they have HQ in the UAE, however, Halliburton is domiciled in the USA, and is therefore not a company of the UAE, but rather of the USA. Additionally, companies listed on the UAE stock exchanges do not automatically gain entry onto this list, as some of these companies are domiciled in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi, Oman, etc. I have also removed TV stations for the time being, as some of these stations were simply TV stations (particularly satellite ones), not companies, but feel free to add the owners of these companies, of course if they are UAE domiciled companies, and they are notable. Which leads to my last point, unless the company is notable, and is likely to obtain an article in the future, don't simply add it, without discussing on the talk page first, this will eliminate the spam links.

And lastly, if anyone has access to the Industry Classification Benchmark, perhaps they could fill in the missing gaps in the tables. --Russavia (talk) 15:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * If its a spam magnet then fair enough - I would like somewhere to list the companies in the UAE that have an active CSR activity - i might just write up a good overview of UAE CSR and list some of the companies that have an active CSR presence. I think we should consider listing the following companies though which some have been removed - Lime Green Entertainments LLC, Anglo Arabian Group, Dubai World  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dubailime (talk • contribs) 00:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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Edutech wrong link
Edutech is linked to the general Education technology article instead of the company it was supposed to. Mysoftpaws (talk) 14:30, 11 July 2023 (UTC)