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Actavis to Allergan Merger

I work for Makovsky, the communications partner for Allergan. As of today, Actavis has transitioned to the name Allergan and we would like to have a redirect/merger of the two pages. Historical background on Actavis will be maintained on the new Allergan page. Appreciate your help. LANEYC ( talk) 16:16, 15 June 2015 (UTC) reply

I totally agree that the Actavis page should be merged into the Allergan page given the name change. Wikipediatastic ( talk) 12:36, 29 July 2015 (UTC) reply

The merger of the two articles makes the history section very confusing. The article needs to be clear in the history when it is referring to the old Allergan and the old Actavis. It may be more clear if a historical Allergan article is maintained. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.3.98.219 ( talk) 18:29, 21 October 2015 (UTC) reply

The merger of the articles does a disservice to Wikipedia. I'm trying to study the history of the original Allergan company, but the article has been revised to say Allergan was founded in 1984 by Allen Chao in Libertyville, Illinois (which is the founding of Actavis). The original Allergan was founded in 1948 by Gavin S Herbert in Los Angeles. This information should not be deleted. The articles need to be organized in a way so that knowledge of history is not lost. History of the original Allergan company is available on Allergan's web site and should be maintained in some form on Wikipedia: http://cia1.allergan.com/about/history.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.3.98.219 ( talk) 18:38, 21 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Actions taken October 2015

It's obvious these articles were in a horrendous mess, no one could understand what happened acquisition wise, therefore I have taken the following steps:

1. – renamed the Allergan article to Allergan, inc, this article details everything about the old Allergan, up to it's acquisition by Actavis, plc. I have removed info relating to Actavis, plc and any information about acquisitions post-merger.
2. – restructured the Actavis, plc article to show it's original history, i.e its Watson dealings, Warner Chilcott and Forest labs acqusitions. I have (tried) to make it clear that Actavis still exists as the US Generics division of the company
3. – finally, I created a new article Allergan, plc which details everything post-merger, specifically the name change from Actavis, plc to Allergan, plc and any post deal acquisitions.

I think the cladograms help give an overview. XyZAn ( talk) 19:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Unfortunately, you spelled it the wrong way, without capitalization. The correct name of the now-defunct American entity was Allergan, Inc. Corporate names are always marked with capital letters in American English: Inc., Corp., P.C., LLC, etc. I'm not an admin so I can't fix this, so this mess is stuck that way until an admin can get in to rename the article properly. -- Coolcaesar ( talk) 15:06, 1 November 2015 (UTC) reply

On behalf of Allergan, and as part of my work for Beutler Ink, I have some simple updates to offer here to differentiate the Wikipedia articles for Allergan and Allergan, Inc. Currently, this article does not clearly show that Allergan Inc. is defunct, and editors can review previous discussion about this above.

For this article, I suggest:

• adding the following sentence to the end of the introduction: Actavis, plc acquired the company in 2015, and continued to use Allergan's name.
• in the infobox, using the "defunct" parameter (see Template:Infobox company) to add the date "March 17, 2015"
• tense changes throughout the article's prose (such as "is a company" to "was a company"), since Allergan, Inc. no longer exists.

These changes will hopefully help to clarify to readers that the company is defunct. I am curious, are there other updates that can be made to the article to further differentiate these two companies?

@ XyZAn: I know I've already pinged you to review a request for the other article, but since these are related, I figured I'd ping you here, too, in case you are interested, and given your past work on the article. Of course, I am open to feedback from other editors as well.

Thank you. Inkian Jason ( talk) 20:38, 15 February 2018 (UTC) reply