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The result of the debate was Support both votes. —spookywillowwtalk 22:24, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Time to provide some minimum codifying to real-world company articles! Relevant SH can be found here. First vote aim at providing a layout for those articles, while the second vote is to determine if we want to remove the legal stasus suffix or not. NanoLuukeCloning Facility 00:36, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Vote 1

New subsection entitled "Real-world companies" to be added at the end of the "Sectioning" section of the Layout Guide/Out-of-universe policy, with:

Real-World Company Articles
Real-world companies articles are to be organized using the following sections. Each of these sections may be subsectioned as necessary.
  1. History gives a detailed and comprehensive summary of the company's history. With the exception of foundation and dissolution information, this section will limit its focus almost exclusively to the company's relation to the Star Wars franchise. The article may briefly note the highlights of a company, where they are well known for their products or services, and their achievement outside of Star Wars. See Maxis for an example on how brief this should be.
  2. Products or Services gives a tabulated listing of the company's products or services that is focused exclusively on Star Wars. The tables must contain Year and Title columns, with the possible addition of others, including but not limited to Contributions, Platforms, Format, and Notes. It must be organized in chronological order.
    See WP:LG#Tables, Maxis#Products and Full Monty Catering#Services for examples on how to format these tables and headings.
  3. Awards and nominations gives a tabulated listing of a company's nominations and awards, exclusively for their Star Wars works.

Support

  1. NanoLuukeCloning Facility 00:36, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  2. OOM 224 00:51, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  3. Lewisr (talk) 01:11, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  4. CometSmudge (talk) 01:25, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  5. —spookywillowwtalk 01:43, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  6. Cade GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit Calrayn 01:47, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  7. Imperators II(Talk) 12:49, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  8. ThePedantry (talk) 01:21, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  9. Andykatib 01:47, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  10. Ayrehead02 (talk) 09:57, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  11. JediMasterMacaroni(Talk) 12:16, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  12. Darth Soda CIS roundel (Talk) 14:31, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  13. NBDani TeamFireballLogo-Collider(they/them)Yeager's Repairs 19:21, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  14. --Vitus InfinitusTalk 13:03, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
  15. Master FredceriqueCommerce Guild(talk) (he/him) 16:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
  16. — Commandant Bhatoa (talk) 20:27, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Oppose

Vote 2

New subsection entitled "Real-world companies" to be added to the "Specific rules" section of the Naming policy, right before the "Real-world people" subsection, with:

Articles for real-world companies shall be titled without the inclusion of their legal status types, such as Ltd., Inc., LLC, etc. (examples: Lucasfilm not Lucasfilm Ltd.; Hasbro not Hasbro Inc.).

Support

  1. NanoLuukeCloning Facility 00:36, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  2. OOM 224 00:51, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  3. Lewisr (talk) 01:11, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  4. CometSmudge (talk) 01:25, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  5. —spookywillowwtalk 01:43, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  6. Cade GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit Calrayn 01:47, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  7. Imperators II(Talk) 12:49, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
  8. ThePedantry (talk) 01:21, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  9. Ayrehead02 (talk) 09:57, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  10. Big fan of this JediMasterMacaroni(Talk) 12:16, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  11. Darth Soda CIS roundel (Talk) 14:31, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  12. NBDani TeamFireballLogo-Collider(they/them)Yeager's Repairs 19:21, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
  13. --Vitus InfinitusTalk 13:03, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
  14. Master FredceriqueCommerce Guild(talk) (he/him) 16:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
  15. — Commandant Bhatoa (talk) 20:27, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Oppose

  1. Plenty of companies regularly use their suffix in their common name. Would those all be removed? If not, how would that be determined? SorcererSupreme21 (talk) 06:35, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

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