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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 17:58, 31 March 2008.

List of acquisitions made by Google[edit]

I am nominating this as a WP:FL because I think it is up for it. Here is phase one and phase two. Gary King (talk) 00:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Question: really no acquisitions in the last four months? Hard to believe. Renata (talk) 04:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Feel free to look it up. Here's a good starter. I do not think that Google is out to try and set a record for most companies acquired. Gary King (talk) 04:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Matthew
Comment I'd really like for each acquisition to be linkable, so I know what they all are. Also, why isn't the dollar amount given for each acquisition? -- Matthew

Support Concerns addressed, meets criteria. Another good list. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 18:15, 27 March, 2008

CommentSupport Thanks. Great list, but blogs shouldn't appear in the citations per WP:RS, Eg. ZDnet and TechCrunch. PeterSymonds | talk 21:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've weeded out the blogs. Gary King (talk) 04:44, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved stuff from The Rambling Man (talk) 15:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Hey Gary, some comments for you before I can support.

  • Avoid links in the emboldedened lead per WP:LEAD#Bold_title
  • Kaltix redirects to Web search engine - perhaps a real article could be created? Similarly ZipDash redirects to Traffic - perhaps you need an article here instead. There are several of these, I'm not 100% happy with the company name simply redirecting to the nature of their business.
    • Fixed the links. They are now either (really short) stubs or they redirect to their derived service over at Google. Gary King (talk) 04:39, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Value column could be right aligned to stack the commas neatly.
  • Consider adding an link to this list in the Google template.
    • already existing Gary King (talk) 03:46, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • Sorry, am I being slow? I can see this article linked to in {{Google Inc.}} at all... The Rambling Man (talk) 11:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • I think you're missing a few letters in your sentence... anyways, in {{Google Inc.}}, next to See also, the list is linked to via Acquisitions. Gary King (talk) 18:03, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
          • Ah, it's a redirect, that's why it doesn't go bold when you look at the page. Edit the template so it points directly at the list rather than at a redirect, that's why I missed it. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Other than the redirects I can't see any major problems. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:04, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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