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Is it encyclopedic to refer to IBM employees as IBMers throughout the article? To an outsider this seems distracting and unnecessary, bordering on WP:PROMOTION, when the more straightforward "IBM employees" would do just fine. The article on Google for example doesn't use the term "Googlers" at all. Is there any MoS guideline we can turn to for this? Stonkaments ( talk) 04:05, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
User:Stonkaments A good observation. I'm not sure about a guideline, but I was surprised by a cursory search and the number of sources that refer to them as IMBers Troubadour34 ( talk) 03:16, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
to Vt320 Guy_Harris Can you attach a current IBM logo (black and white colors) to the IBM article, if you can confirm that IBM changed the recommended colors of its logo to black and white? [1]
ITjungle mentioned the new IBM logo in accompanying discussion of the newer IBM i logo in this article. [2]
[3] EWLwiki ( talk) 02:17, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
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I notice that, in the history section, no mention is made of anything notable that IBM was doing between the years of 1939 and 1945. I wonder why that is? 🤔 206.195.157.47 ( talk) 16:23, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
I was looking to find some more information about the company Q1 labs, which was a cybersecurity company founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick. It redirected here, which makes sense as it was later bought out by IBM, but there’s no information on this page about Q1 labs. There’s definitely info out there - there’s a decent amount on the page for Brendan Hannigan, one of the founders - but I’m not sure where that should be aggregated 130.113.109.111 ( talk) 04:47, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
I removed the picture of the entrance of the Armonk headquarters a while ago, because I don't think it's informative. IBM is quite spread out globally and not much of its personnel is actually located there. On top of that, it's a pretty bad picture with a tree blocking the view of the building. @ User:Farzam.akbarian86 added back the picture. Can we reach a consensus on what to do here? PhotographyEdits ( talk) 20:15, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
This article looks seriously edited by pro-IBM parties. 93.195.161.235 ( talk) 05:23, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
The paragraph about leadership and development, and the paragraph about exceptional contributors, are both out of place and don't belong in the history section, particularly in the area between the 30's and 50's. They have nothing to do with the history of IBM and they certainly don't belong in the section discussing WWII. 192.102.209.46 ( talk) 20:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Is Watson Sr. really a cofounder of IBM? Seems like he joined in 1914, but IBM was founded in 1911 by Flint. - Indefensible ( talk) 01:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
The section "allegations of racism" cites Tucker Carlson (not a reliable source, for anything) associating DEI programs with "racism". This can't be serious? Jonathan f1 ( talk) 07:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
This is the start of a discussion about the use of undocumented perimeters to show key people. WiinterU ( talk) 02:15, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
founders
and key_people
emit microformats, that allow computer programs to parse their content as being of the correct class (in this case, agent
, i.e. people involved with the entity). Undocumented parameters don't emit any microformats, meaning programs looking at the infobox are completely blind to these rows of contents.
Chaotıċ Enby (
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contribs) 14:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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Is it encyclopedic to refer to IBM employees as IBMers throughout the article? To an outsider this seems distracting and unnecessary, bordering on WP:PROMOTION, when the more straightforward "IBM employees" would do just fine. The article on Google for example doesn't use the term "Googlers" at all. Is there any MoS guideline we can turn to for this? Stonkaments ( talk) 04:05, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
User:Stonkaments A good observation. I'm not sure about a guideline, but I was surprised by a cursory search and the number of sources that refer to them as IMBers Troubadour34 ( talk) 03:16, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
to Vt320 Guy_Harris Can you attach a current IBM logo (black and white colors) to the IBM article, if you can confirm that IBM changed the recommended colors of its logo to black and white? [1]
ITjungle mentioned the new IBM logo in accompanying discussion of the newer IBM i logo in this article. [2]
[3] EWLwiki ( talk) 02:17, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
References
I notice that, in the history section, no mention is made of anything notable that IBM was doing between the years of 1939 and 1945. I wonder why that is? 🤔 206.195.157.47 ( talk) 16:23, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
I was looking to find some more information about the company Q1 labs, which was a cybersecurity company founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick. It redirected here, which makes sense as it was later bought out by IBM, but there’s no information on this page about Q1 labs. There’s definitely info out there - there’s a decent amount on the page for Brendan Hannigan, one of the founders - but I’m not sure where that should be aggregated 130.113.109.111 ( talk) 04:47, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
I removed the picture of the entrance of the Armonk headquarters a while ago, because I don't think it's informative. IBM is quite spread out globally and not much of its personnel is actually located there. On top of that, it's a pretty bad picture with a tree blocking the view of the building. @ User:Farzam.akbarian86 added back the picture. Can we reach a consensus on what to do here? PhotographyEdits ( talk) 20:15, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
This article looks seriously edited by pro-IBM parties. 93.195.161.235 ( talk) 05:23, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
The paragraph about leadership and development, and the paragraph about exceptional contributors, are both out of place and don't belong in the history section, particularly in the area between the 30's and 50's. They have nothing to do with the history of IBM and they certainly don't belong in the section discussing WWII. 192.102.209.46 ( talk) 20:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Is Watson Sr. really a cofounder of IBM? Seems like he joined in 1914, but IBM was founded in 1911 by Flint. - Indefensible ( talk) 01:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
The section "allegations of racism" cites Tucker Carlson (not a reliable source, for anything) associating DEI programs with "racism". This can't be serious? Jonathan f1 ( talk) 07:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
This is the start of a discussion about the use of undocumented perimeters to show key people. WiinterU ( talk) 02:15, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
founders
and key_people
emit microformats, that allow computer programs to parse their content as being of the correct class (in this case, agent
, i.e. people involved with the entity). Undocumented parameters don't emit any microformats, meaning programs looking at the infobox are completely blind to these rows of contents.
Chaotıċ Enby (
talk ·
contribs) 14:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC)