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Notability
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- To my mind, the notability is their being one of only three or four manufacturers of a wide spread product more than the award. Imagine if there were only three companies that made household piping. I don't think they'd get much press but I feel they should be here in WP. I could put in a few lines about their product design and features but I don't need to be their ad-man.
- I don't think it needs to go but if people really think so perhaps it should be merged into the VESA article rather than deleted.
Update. I just did a news search for Barkan mounts in Hebrew. The business news Globes runs regular articles about them and their investments implying that they are a force in the israeli econemy.
- Globes article
- Another Globes
- an article about a new tech innovation
- An article about Lior Barkan and his management methods used in Barkan Mounts. (This one might make it into the article when I get a chance.)
Joe407 (talk) 04:31, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
- If it's as notable as you say (and you've clearly done your research), I wouldn't want to see the article deleted either. My only concern now is that being an orphan article sort of makes the article redundant. That's why I questioned it's notability. So, if we can avoid that, it'll be fantastic. Let's merge this article, therefore, into an article with wider scope. Your suggestion of Flat Display Mounting Interface is brilliant, by the way. Then, in the future, if that article gets too large, we can break it up again into separate articles. For now, though, merging seems to be the best way to avoid orphan status.
- I must admit, too, that my original concern was that this article may have been spam. I now think this is not the case. I also think that merging is the best way to avoid a future editor turning it into spam. Product promotion, I suspect, will show up more on a general article such as this than on an article devoted to a particular business.
- Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Cheers, --~ ~ : Lincoln Cooper : ~ ~ (talk) 02:20, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- Hmmm.... I hope I wasn't misunderstood. What I feel should be put in the VESA article is not this entire article but rather a section (that has since been removed) about design and features of the barkan mounting system. Just as I would not merge Microsoft to the operating system article I would not move any (notable) company to an article about the class of product it sells.
BTW, I'm not so worried about spam to be honest. I wrote this article in prep for going there to interview for a job. (I didn't get the job) They are an old-school factory centric company who may not even know that they have an article on WP. Joe407 (talk) 07:21, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- Hmmm.... I hope I wasn't misunderstood. What I feel should be put in the VESA article is not this entire article but rather a section (that has since been removed) about design and features of the barkan mounting system. Just as I would not merge Microsoft to the operating system article I would not move any (notable) company to an article about the class of product it sells.
- Oops, actually you were misunderstood. Sorry. I'll leave it all in your hands from now on, then. Just one suggestion, though: if you're going to add a part of this article into the VESA article, why not do the same with other manufacturers of this product? Even if you have to create more articles, eventually this article will be sufficiently de-orphaned. Who knows, one day we could be looking at a Did you know... entry on the main page.
Also, is Barkan mounts the name of the company? Or should the article be named Barkan Mounts or Barkan Mounting Systems? Am thinking that as a business name, it should be capitalised. Should be easy enough to fix: Just create the new page, copy the text, adjust any links, then ask for a speedy delete of the old article. But like I said, I'll leave it up to you.
Good luck and sorry you didn't get the job. --~ ~ : Lincoln Cooper : ~ ~ (talk) 12:08, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- Oops, actually you were misunderstood. Sorry. I'll leave it all in your hands from now on, then. Just one suggestion, though: if you're going to add a part of this article into the VESA article, why not do the same with other manufacturers of this product? Even if you have to create more articles, eventually this article will be sufficiently de-orphaned. Who knows, one day we could be looking at a Did you know... entry on the main page.
Company location
editAccording to http://www.kompass.com/lt/IL29854 the company is located in the Ariel Industrial zone. I can also say that I was there 4 months ago, but that is WP:OR. I'm changing the article back as per the above reference. Joe407 (talk) 08:52, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- The company did buck the political pressure to close shop and move its location, but could not resist the economics of continuing to support and nuture Palestinian labour and instead moved to China and laid off tens of Palestinians and some Israelis. --Shuki (talk) 12:47, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Strategy / Brand
editI agree with Boingomatic that the section titled strategy does not belong. The only part that might be nice to add to article is the butterfly design brand. If there is a good image of the butterfly mount and a source that Barkan is using it to brand themselves it would be a good addition. Joe407 (talk) 11:18, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Israel
edit...is defined by the green line. Ariel is outside of the line. I have restored the accurate description that it is in the West Bank. It is not okay for editors to incorporate false information using Wikipedia's narrative voice. Sean.hoyland - talk 03:42, 29 December 2011 (UTC)