Talk:State Farm

Listing of Research Center as a sponsorship?
I believe the Research Center should not be listed under the "Sponsorships" heading. State Farm does not "sponsor" the Research Center in the same manner in which it sponsors the three other items listed -- which are all 3 sporting events. Work done at the Research Center is done for the insurance/financial services business and those interns are employees of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. Any thoughts? Webbyj (talk) 15:16, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Buildings
I think that there are least two State Farm buildings that are notable enough architecturally to probably have their own page.


 * State Farm Downtown Building: this 162 foot tall art deco structure is still the tallest building in downtown Bloomington and housed the company's headquarters for many years.
 * (Sources: ).IvoShandor (talk) 05:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * More sources:, , , IvoShandor (talk) 20:40, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * State Farm Headquarters: This building is almost 200 feet tall and is the tallest building in Bloomington. It's a modernist structure that was completed in 1971.

I'm going to do what I can to dig up some sources on these buildings and start a couple articles. I'll also be attempting to get them into DYK once they're ready.

If anyone has anything to contribute please do.

IvoShandor (talk) 01:18, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I may have overestimated the notability of these buildings. There's not a lot out there, maybe enough to compile a short article on each and establish their notability. We'll see what else is forthcoming. IvoShandor (talk) 02:35, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Criticisms
This article states that the bribe was in the amount of $50K but the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scruggs says $40K. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.178.165.185 (talk) 03:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The cited |NY Times article says that the original bribe amount was $40k but that Scruggs agreed to pay an additional $10k when a subordinate, cooperating with investigators, relayed that the judge required the additional amount.
 * I'm removing the unsourced statement in the article, "This was widely viewed as a major victory and exoneration for State Farm." The case was not directly related to the Katrina case, and the statement is not supported by the given citation.  If someone finds a source to support the statement, please feel free to restore it with proper citation. --Greenbreen (talk) 00:29, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Commercials
>This commercial structure is from State Farm's "Get to a Better State" campaign that premiered in June 2011, with an increased spending budget.

Is there any information on why, 3.5 years later, they are still running four of the original five (?) commercials (the "French" model ad hasn't been aired for well over a year)? I'm curious as to why they think this type of ad campaign has been so effective for them and I think this should be included in the entry. Does anyone know? Rissa, copy editor (talk) 04:06, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 4 June 2017

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. —Guanaco 04:27, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

State Farm Insurance → State Farm – As of January 1, 2012, the official name for the business is State Farm, not State Farm Insurance. "Insurance" was removed from the official name that day. 2601:8C:4001:DCB9:91C0:B17C:7195:720C (talk) 17:01, 4 June 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. Andrewa (talk) 16:21, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Support move. State Farm is both the official and common name.  ONR  (talk) 05:39, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Support State Farm is definitely the common name and the primary topic (with respect to usage). State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the official name, though. I'm not sure where the nominator got the idea that the name was changed on January 1, 2012 (other than the logo change). In line with this, the content from State farm (little f) should be moved to State farm (disambiguation), while State farm (little f) should be a redirect to State Farm menaechmi (talk) 19:21, 5 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Relisting comment: I might have closed this as move but for the comment the content from State farm (little f) should be moved to State farm (disambiguation), while State farm (little f) should be a redirect to State Farm. I find it hard to believe that this company is the primary topic of state farm given the importance of the sovkhoz in Soviet history and ideology. More discussion is needed IMO. Andrewa (talk) 16:20, 12 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Oppose per Andrewa, of course Sovkhoz should be primary or at least rate an equal primary as the insurance company. The title State Farm Insurance is fine, descriptive, and applicable. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:23, 12 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Agnostic on the proposal above but oppose the move of State farm (little f) to State farm (disambiguation) per above comments about sovkhozes. —  AjaxSmack  01:15, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Support This is the WP:COMMONNAME, and this is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the capitalized spelling. It's distinct enough from state farm per WP:SMALLDETAILS.--Cúchullain t/ c 14:19, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Discussion
I think we have rough consensus above that this company is not the primary topic of state farm (with a small "f"), currently a DAB. Thanks to those who participated in this side discussion. It doesn't affect the main RM result, but it was important to discuss it once it was raised, as the suggestion might otherwise have been seen as unopposed by the RM closer. Instead it is now settled in the negative IMO. Andrewa (talk) 07:08, 16 June 2017 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

reddit
Just a heads up, this article was linked to from a popular reddit post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9e5nmn/til_state_farm_paid_145million_in_punitive/e5mi5tx/

Benjamin (talk) 10:01, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Infobox
Really confusing and generally bad to have the infobox for an extant company start out with "Fate" and "Successor" blurbs, based on the sale of a portion of the business. 174.115.100.93 (talk) 12:07, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

"Snake Farm Insurance" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Snake Farm Insurance and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 25 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Talk 15:37, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Copied Text from State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell
Edittedbyageek (talk) 17:49, 31 July 2023 (UTC)