Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leading firms by sector and market share


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The result was   delete. Davewild (talk) 18:44, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Leading firms by sector and market share

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The term "leading firm" is POV and not well-defined - for example, the first subsection says it counts "not only sales, but all the activity of the companies", whatever that means. The list itself is useless, having no figures in it at all, and it's been completely unsourced since it was created 2.5 years ago. Contrast this with the useful list List of companies by revenue. Jayjg (talk) 01:10, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per nominator's arguments. Ill-defined, unsourced and not even a single "market share" stat to establish the order (which would be bound to change over time).--24.201.13.148 (talk) 14:07, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Although the article subject is potentially highly notable (and interesting), the article as it stands is a travesty, not merely because it is completely unsourced and uncited, and because the information within it is in the main factually incorrect, but because the metrics used are so poorly defined and the list is so partial and biased.


 * There are many ways of measuring the leading firms in a sector - e.g. by turnover/market share, market capitalisation, profits or assets - and in many cases many ways of defining exactly what the sector is e.g. does it include suppliers, is banking a single sector or should it be broken down into retail and investment banking etc. These key issues must be addressed if this topic is to be dealt with in anything approaching an encyclopedic manner. Furthermore we have sections for cosmetics and printers, which are in reality small sub sectors, but key sectors such as IT hardware, Oil and Gas, Software, Media, Tobacco, Telecommunications, Support Services etc have been ignored. The flaws in the article at present are so fundamental that nothing is capable of salvage.  Rangoon11 (talk) 13:04, 4 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:10, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
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