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Service Bureau Redirection
Yesterday, I followed a link from the William Norris pages, to service bureaus from Payroll Service Bureau. I didn't see how to find out where that change was made (I'm relatively new here), but asked the help desk and was told that you had put it in. I was surprised because the redirection misses the fact that there are multiple types of service bureaus out there, of which payroll is only one. In this case, it was even more surprising because one of William Norris' big things was the acquisition of the Service Bureau Company in the mid 70's from IBM (I worked there shortly after the acquisition) and at the time, the bigger part of the company was "Timesharing" and the part that included Payroll was considered "Batch Services". They even had an ad campaign (which didn't impress most people within the company that I knew) with the tag line,"We gave our name to the entire industry." Other classic types of activity at service bureaus include AP, GL, and various other accounting functions. During the time I was there, ADP was the biggest competitor. So, I'm not sure I agree that the redirection is really a valid change. Perhaps a pointer to Payroll Service Bureau would make more sense. I could probably come up with some basic information, but probably wouldn't be the best for the overall article. I'd be most interested in the "why" before consideration of writing anything. Bschmitt 17:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * To be honest with you, I don't know who William Norris is, and I'm most likely not the person you were looking to write. I started payroll service bureau as a stub since Wikipedia had absolutely nothing on it.  However, the wonderful thing about Wikipedia is that if you see something wrong or missing, and can cite your sources, then anyone is welcome to be WP:BOLD and change it.  As I wasn't even born yet in the mid-70's, my perspective of anything that happened then is going to be faint, and someone more familiar with notable things that happened then is better positioned to update.  Good luck Reswobslc 18:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
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