Talk:White knight (business)

Question
Does anyone know the orgin of this term's use in business takeovers? If so, it would be an interesting addition to this page.


 * I imagine it is the normal good guy hero imagery. Also, should a note about the character in Pretty Woman becoming a white knight count? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.243.201.127 (talk) 02:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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 * 1) Per the above, some history and references documenting the term's use should be added to the article, if available, to establish the notability of the term.
 * 2) The terms "grey knight" and "black knight" might be better explained here than not - Grey knight was recently deleted and the far shorter Black knight (business) article probably should be as well, given that it is only a single sentence long.
 * 3) Please source and attribute the claims that the companies mentioned in the examples section were acting as white knights. Reads like WP:OR in its current state.   MrZaius  talk  19:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 2 March 2018

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The result of the move request was: consensus not to move the pages at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 01:26, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

– Per WP:SMALLDETAILS, this is the only article with the lowercase spelling of the word. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 12:19, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * White knight (business) → White knight
 * White knight → White Knight
 * Oppose: to most people a white knight or a White Knight is first a sort of chessman. Plus all the other meanings listed in disambig page White knight. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure why that would be, since knights in chess can either be white or black. I don't see people making an immediate association to chess. Also, it's not making the business term the primary topic, just primary for the lowercase spelling of it.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 18:59, 2 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Gah, this is a tough one. I agree that there is no other article eligible for the lower-case name, but the business usage is somewhat obscure and WP:ASTONISHing if put at primary. I feel like the white night title deserves a WP:BROADCONCEPT in the same way that black knight is constructed, and I think we should wait on this move and push for that instead. -- Netoholic @ 10:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * There is already a broadconcept for that, it's knight-errant, but they are not necessarily portrayed as white knights, so I am not sure that redirecting White knight there would work too well unless there is enough to support a section about their portrayal as white knights.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 11:47, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah that knight-errant article is just not what I had in mind. Its very focused on the real knights, whereas we need an article for white knight which covers the concepts that were inspired by the knight-errant. -- Netoholic @ 11:53, 3 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose per Anthony Appleyard and Netoholic. Another similarly-positioned nomination is at Talk:Rabbit-Proof Fence (film). &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 16:54, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I would think that the primary meaning of a white knight would be a "good guy" knight in shining armor, comparable to a paladin. bd2412  T 04:01, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. If anything's primary it's clearly the chess term. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)


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