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

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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 20:13, 1 November 2008 [1].

List of mergers and acquisitions by Adobe Systems[edit]

This is my second list for the FLC Contest. Gary King (talk) 19:11, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - Either I'm blind or Gary has done another great list that I found no flaws in the prose nor in the list itself, great list good job.--SRX 21:30, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:29, 24 October 2008 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • "The company has acquired 25 companies, purchased stakes in 5 companies, and divested 6 companies, with most of them being software companies." Don't use the with + -ing sentence structure.
  • Could you spell out the country names, at least on their first appearances?
  • "re-branded its FrameMaker software into Adobe FrameMaker." I think ""into"-->to.
  • "with its most recent divestment made in August 1999 when" Comma after 1999.
  • "Of the companies that Adobe Systems has acquired, 18 were based in the United States." This sentence would seem more complete if you restated the total number of acquisitions: "Of the 25 companies that Adobe Systems has acquired, 18 were based in the United States."
  • The notes need references. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:12, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All done. Comma is unnecessary for "August 1999 when"; sounds good when reading aloud. Each note uses the same reference that their row in the table uses. The notes are just info that belong in the table but isn't actually in there because it would be too long, so it's branched off into a note. It still uses the same reference. Gary King (talk) 03:13, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment "The company has acquired 25 companies, purchased stakes in 5 companies, and divested 6 companies, most which were software companies." I think the last part of this sentence is missing an "of" —Chris! ct 00:24, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Done Gary King (talk) 00:28, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment All of the other featured acquisition lists are named 'List of acquisitions by *company*'. Shouldn't this one be named similarly, something along the lines of 'List of mergers and acquisitions by Adobe Systems'? Silver Sonic Shadow (talk) 23:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Good point; I think that that is a better title, so I have moved the list. Gary King (talk) 01:14, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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