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style issues
The very first sentence in this article sounds like an advertisement. It really should be written simply as "Comcast Corporation, formerly registered as Comcast Holdings, is a US based mass media and communications company. It is currently ranked as having the highest revenue in the world as a International Media Corporation.
My last edit
I made an edit earlier today where I edited the infobox to include that the current Comcast was founded on December 7, 2001 in Philadelphia and added a source I archived through the Wayback Machine to prove this. However, after doing some research I'm wondering whether I made a mistake carrying out that edit. My previous understanding had been that there were a minimum of two types of mergers. One type was where one company would absorb another company, and the remaining company would remain. The other type is what is actually a merger, where two companies combine to form a new company. I had been hoping that the Comcast I have a current relationship with was the original one, but the source I found confirmed to me that the old Comcast disappeared in 2001, and the one I started a relationship with is the current one. I realize now that when I read the press release on the Comcast website, by "new company" they meant that the current Comcast would be replaced with a new company.
If anything thinks I shouldn't have made the edit I did, I have no problem with reverting it. I realize that it's the same situation with T-Mobile US, where the old company was T-Mobile USA. So I learned something new today. Jesant13 (talk) 22:45, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- I think you're on the right track. The fact that there is a legal distinction between pre and post AT&T merger Comcast does not imply that such a distinction is notable enough to go in the infobox. By all accounts, the "new" Comcast is nearly exactly the same as the "old" one. As another example, from 1963-1969 the company was American Cable Systems, but has been left as part of the Comcast article mostly because of Ralph J Roberts. It seems to me the scope of "Comcast" is significantly less clear cut than a strict legal definition. I've reverted the edit, but I certainly don't blame you for it. Decades old large companies can obviously be pretty complex.Forbes72 (talk) 02:10, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Comcast and AT&T Merger
I feel that the discussion of the merger referenced in item 72, not only leads the audience to presume that comcast has current holdings in AT&T U Verse, but also the source has no affiliation with the security and exchange commission. The current Direct TV merger illustrates that competition between the two independent companies exist, and reference the previous use of broadband vs the new DSL method.
Owner of Comcast
There is no source to identify that Independent owns Comcast. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Passionpersian (talk • contribs) 19:31, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Removal of criticism summary in the lead section
A consensus was reached a while back regarding the wording and inclusion of a summary of the criticism material in the lead section; that discussion also involved an RFC as well as a thread at ANI:
- Talk:Comcast/Archive 2#Criticism in the lead section
- Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive718#Comcast article
However, recently Justinw303 (talk · contribs) has been wanting to remove that material. Given the prior consensus, a discussion is needed before wholesale removal to determine if consensus on the inclusion has changed.
Per WP:LEAD, the lead should "summarize the most important points—including any prominent controversies" - so I do agree with a mention in the lead section. However, I would also agree that the phrasing again needs to be cleaned up to be presented more neutrally in the lead. The section is for a high-level introduction, not providing details of the criticisms - which is more appropriately contained in its own section. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:42, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
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