Talk:Diageo/Archives/2012

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Woah! In the article it says "The authority of the SWA was undermined." That is a subjective statement and definitly not belonging on Wikipedia!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.154.212.92 (talk • contribs) 01:12, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• (Much later) I removed a similar wording. These are strong statements, and they are unlikely to represent something that is universally agreed. Would the SWA agree? Perhaps not. Therefore the statements are inherently point-of-view. If they appear, it must be clear who said this (e.g. a newspaper), with a full reference so it can be confirmed. Notinasnaid 10:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Iseq template

I've added the Iseq listing to the main body of text but I can't figure out how to do the template part! Everytime 03:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Diageo Brands Page

I think that the separate Diageo Brands page that exists should be merged into this page. In fact there already is a list of brands here on this page, and we may just need to delete the Diageo Brand page all together. In addition there is a Diageo Brand category now.Ender qa 19:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Dia (Latin for 'day')

'Dia' is not Latin for 'day' - I would remove it, but I don't know any Greek, so have no idea if there is any truth in the second part of the statement. Can anyone else shed some light on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.92.40.49 (talk) 15:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

'Dia' is, however, Spanish for 'day', so perhaps changing 'Latin' to read 'Spanish' would work. But I don't know what the authority is for the whole etymological assertion, so perhaps removal would be best. --Haruo (talk) 23:33, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Some indication of an English pronunciation is needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.51.30 (talk) 13:59, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

The nominative singular of the Ionic Greek for "earth" is "ge". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.51.30 (talk) 11:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Isn't "dia" the number two in Greek? 189.83.105.9 (talk) 16:52, 27 September 2009 (UTC) No. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.148.126.53 (talk) 10:51, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

George Bull Link

I think the link from George Bull is to an article on a 17th century Bishop of the same name. I don't think this is correct but I don't want to edit it as I'm no expert on the subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.17.255.24 (talk) 14:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

"History" section is not history, but complaints

It is not surprising that Diageo, being the market leader, creates so many enemies. But the history section more than explaining how the largest spririt producer in the workd developed shows an assortment of "bad press" for the company. Even though these are mostly well documented, that does not imply they have a neutral point of view. I really doubt that everything is that bad at Diageo; at least Johnny Walker, Baileys, and severeal others listed are not bad to my taste. ;-)

If you know a little bit of histry of this company, please fix this section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PabloStraub (talk • contribs) 20:32, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Brewdog

The Brewdog stuff is not just sourced from a blogpost now. As of this afternoon there has been a statement from Diageo, on their own website, that backs it up. --87.112.157.191 (talk) 00:39, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

The issue isn't whether it happened, it is whether it is significant enough for inclusion. And as yet I see no evidence of that.Rangoon11 (talk) 01:09, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

The Diageo statement does not say much about what actually happened. It just says there was a "misjudgement by Diageo staff". The rest of the details are just based on what BrewDog claims. BrewDog are well known for their cheap publicity stunts... --Vclaw (talk) 01:34, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

There is now an article in the FT which I will add a ref to. --RadioElectric (talk) 11:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

FT article is paywalled. Telegraph instead then. --RadioElectric (talk) 11:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

• Nice work for sourcing it. It's a fascinating story. --John (talk) 20:12, 10 May 2012 (UTC)