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American Insurance Association is not American International Group; Undoing Inappropriate Redirect[edit]

The American Insurance Association is a trade association of about 300 property/casualty insurance companies and is not equivalent to American International Group, which is a particular insurance company.
It is possible that AIG is a member of the American Insurance Association but AIA does not appear to publish a list of its members on its website, and I will have to continue searching for references regarding AIG's membership in the Association or its lack thereof.
In the meantime I am going to undo the redirect and replace it with a brief description of the AIA informed by the AIA website and several other sources, all of which I will cite.
I will write the description myself so as not to create a copyright violation.

AIA website, substantiating my foregoing description of the AIA: http://www.aiadc.org/

Direct quotation from http://www.aiadc.org/ : The American Insurance Association (AIA) is the leading property-casualty insurance trade organization, representing approximately 300 insurers that write more than $117 billion in premiums each year. AIA member companies offer all types of property - casualty insurance, including personal and commercial auto insurance, commercial property and liability coverage for small businesses, workers' compensation, homeowners' insurance, medical malpractice coverage, and product liability insurance.

AIG website for contrast: http://www.aigcorporate.com/

Possible conflict of interest disclosure[edit]

My father worked for the American Insurance Association in the 1990s and I was prompted to search for the organization's article here by a conversation in which I referenced his work for AIA.
As I think many people probably search for entities' pages on Wikipedia in addition to or even sometimes before searching for them in a general-purpose search engine (searching in Google for < american insurance association > both as a literal string (i.e. in quotations) and as three independent words with no explicit operators both return the AIA website as the primary result, and Wikipedia's redirect to AIG is not on the first page), part of my motivation for eliminating the redirect is indeed to prevent people from being confused as to who my father's employer actually was.
However I also want to correct the article simply because it's currently inaccurate, and I think demonstrably inaccurate redirects should be corrected as soon as possible to avoid giving potential unskeptical readers the impression that the article title's subject is equivalent to the subject of the redirect. - Riyuky (talk) 05:47, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]