User talk:Mikemugge

Big Z - Zillow
Hi,

Sure, I would be happy to help any way that I can. Regarding listing Zillow on the Big Z disambiguation page, you would need to mention it in the article. Right now, I don't see Big Z in the article. Do you have a reliable source (newspaper, magazine, book, etc.) that says that Zillow is called Big Z?

You can respond here, I'll watch this page for any comments you may have.-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 18:06, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I just found something that says that Zillow is listed as "Z" on NASDAQ, which would be an interesting addition to the Big Z discusson on Zillow.-- CaroleHenson  ( talk )

Here are some references:
 * The CEO of Zillow referred to Zillow as Big Z on Twitter
 * From an Inman News articles
 * On a Trulia blog
 * On GeekEstateBlog.com by Drew Meyers who worked at Zillow for 5 years
 * On HousingWire.com
 * On ActiveRain (by Trulia)
 * Pando.com, a news website
 * AgBeat.com


 * If you do a search for "Big Z" on real estate websites and blogs, you will find that people in the industry refer to Zillow as Big Z on blog or news comments sections I hope that this shows that it's just become industry lingo to refer to Zillow as "Big Z"


 * It's worth noting that as a contrast point, Trulia, Zillow's sister company is referred to as "Big T" Mikemugge (talk) 19:36, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Mike, We don't need a whole bunch, we actually just need one from a good, secondary and reliable source - again -newspaper, magazine, book, etc. Twitter, blogs, and forums won't work. Like the Inman links are really blog posts (written by a "contributor", rather than a journalist). Is one of these from a news source, written by a journalist?-- CaroleHenson   ( talk ) 19:54, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I thought I had one from a central PA newspaper, but it was a blog item by a local realtor. When I searched using: Zillow "Big Z" -blog -forum -twitter -wordpress -contributor.... I didn't come up with one reliable source. I checked books, HighBeam, Google news... and I'm not finding anything in mainstream media.


 * I'm going to post a question on Teahouse about whether something used often in social media - but cannot be found in mainstream press - can be used in an article -- just to cover the bases. See this post there.-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 20:19, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Based upon the input from the Teahouse page, the disambig pages are less strict about what is included than articles. If you want to add Zillow to the Biz Z disambig page - you might try it with this source, which I think looks to be the best... and see if that sticks.-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 03:59, 7 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I am doing that now.--Mikemugge (talk) 07:11, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Cool!-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 20:01, 12 November 2014 (UTC)