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Overall "Standards & Rules"
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Karl, please take a look at [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=Directory_talk:IBM&oldid=2576 this] question. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 13:10, 15 November 2006 (PST)
 
Karl, please take a look at [http://www.centiare.com/index.php?title=Directory_talk:IBM&oldid=2576 this] question. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 13:10, 15 November 2006 (PST)
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== Overall "Standards & Rules" ==
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Karl, I have examined the site pretty carefully today, and I am seeing as a result of that the following "priority" issues that we should address as quickly as possible (before much more content is added):
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We need to devise ''final'' '''Infobox Standards''' for the following entities:
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:*Public for-profit corporations
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:*Private for-profit firms (which may be satisfied above)
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:*Non-profit entities
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:*Human beings (whether they are business officers, celebrities, artists, or job-seekers)
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And I think we need to devise '''Rules of Style''' for:
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:*Names of human beings (am I Greg Kohs, Gregory Kohs, Gregory J. Kohs, or Gregory James Kohs?)
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:*Names of companies (is it International Business Machines Corporation, International Business Machines Corp., IBM Corporation, IBM Corp., or IBM?)
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:*Occupational titles (the semantic search is really thrown off when someone might be "CEO", "Chairman", and/or "CEO and Chairman" (or, "Chairman and CEO"; or, "CEO & Chairman" with an ampersand))
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Without establishing early and firmly some rigid and comprehensive structures that ''work well'', we're going to be facing potentially massive re-formatting in three months' time, updating the work of many, many different visitors/owners. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 13:41, 15 November 2006 (PST)