Wikipedia:WikiProject Retailing/Company page structure

Very rough draft

'''Something to consider, see Criticism. This essay suggests to blow out the entire Criticism section altogether, and placing criticisms elsewhere. For example, criticisms of Wal-Mart do not belong in the article on Wal-Mart, but in the articles on Wal-Mart-critical groups and concepts (such as Wake Up Wal-Mart, predatory pricing, etc.).'''

suggests that we should use Microsoft as a template for this; it is a featured article about a corporation after all. It has the following document structure. I have omitted some redundant crap.

==History== ===1975–1985: The founding of Microsoft=== ... ===2005–2006: The road to Vista=== ==Product divisions== ===Microsoft Platform Products and Services Divisions=== ... ==Business culture== ==User culture== ==Corporate affairs== ===Corporate structure=== ===Stock=== ===Diversity=== ===Logos and slogans=== ==Criticism== ===Corporate=== ===Technical=== ==Microsoft.com== ==See also== ==References and footnotes== ==External links==

And now, here is my take:


 * History:
 * history of company's predecessors
 * history of company itself


 * Subsidiaries
 * list of subsidiaries, could also be represented by one or more article
 * if a subsidiary can be explained in multiple paragraphs, then could have its own article or section
 * Notable subsidiary #1
 * details
 * these could possibly have its own articles
 * Notable subsidiary #2
 * etc.
 * etc.


 * Corporate affairs
 * Corporate structure
 * directors
 * executives
 * Stock
 * stock history (such as IPO day, etc)
 * Logos and slogans
 * Self explanatory


 * Criticism
 * of course NPOV
 * should include criticism to the business model
 * should also include the company's responses to criticism


 * See also
 * anything that is obviously not directly about the company (such as Wal-Mart in popular culture) should go in its own article and be linked here


 * Notes and references
 * list of everything used in the article
 * using Cite of course, could also class="references-small" (remove 10 December 2010) the thing


 * Further reading (and/or External links)
 * material that is not used in the article