Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by User:Matthewedwards 22:08, 8 November 2008.

List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple
Gary King ( talk ) 14:54, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - Like the others this one should also probably be named "List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple" or something to that effect. Silver Sonic Shadow (talk) 19:57, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, thanks I missed this one. Done! Gary King  ( talk ) 20:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Support - The list meets WP:WIAFL after my addressed review.-- S R X  21:17, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment - Should this be sortable by name, or does that create more problems than it causes? Rlendog (talk) 03:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The columns are already sortable by name. Gary King  ( talk ) 14:00, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 12:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:56, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Comment This has the same divestment confusion as the Red Hat one. It would appear that three of the 'divestments' are actually other companies buying stakes in Apple. However in the lead you say that five companies in total were divested. This doesn't seem to tally at all. I think that these three placements (which from your comment on the Red Hat FLC I presume they are) should go in a separate table in the article. If you did that, then you could have a different set of headings e.g. you could get rid of the 'Target Company' and 'Target business' sections (which are always going to be Apple and Personal Computers) and perhaps replace them with the percentage acquired (if known). The two actual sell-offs would remain in the existing table. Boissière (talk) 20:50, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I've reworded the bit in the lead to imply that not all of the divestments were "parts of the company". I don't think the Divestment table should be split; the reference that I use, for instance, considers them as Divestments as lists them along with the others. Gary King  ( talk ) 21:07, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
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