Talk:Pacific Phosphate Company

Copying: why this has been redirected

This article appears to have been created by copying the work of other editors, without attribution, from John_T._Arundel#Pacific_Phosphate_Company_Ltd. That is not allowed: the other editors deserve credit for their work. See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Splitting for more information. It is not acceptable to pass off other people's work as ones own, and not useful for the same information to appear in two places, so that someone adding more content on the topic will add it in one place or the other randomly.

For now this article has been redirected to the page from which the bulk of it was copied, as the information is all there, without the muddled references which have resulted from copying. If anyone wants to re-create this page by splitting the John T. Arundel article, they need to credit the previous editors, and tidy up the resulting article so that all named references are properly defined etc.

The categories were all over the place: I'll suggest a couple of more appropriate categories for this redirect. PamD 17:25, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

even if I already edit more than 10,000 since 2007, I have never seen the issue of Copying inside Wikipedia as a big problem. In this case I have first of all created a stub with its own resume, and then added PIC and PPC paragraphs, that I have found some later. “ When copying content from one article to another, at a minimum provide a link back to the source page in the edit summary at the destination page and state that content was copied from that source. If substantial, consider posting a note on both talk pages”. So the main problem is to not have placed a link to the editors of the initial source, John T. Arundel. Not a big deal. The page in question is a biography and this article purpose was to explain the company without focusing on the founder. Only. So I disagree with the Redirect only. Of course, it was far from perfection but «the Apple is a fruit» is always a good start.-Arorae (talk)<

Introducing

The Pacific Phosphate Company (PPC) was a British company, based in London, founded in 1902 to exploit phosphate rocks in the Pacific mainly in Ocean Island and then in Nauru. Its previous name was Pacific Islands Company until 1902 when started the Phosphate mining in Nauru and Banaba. German joined the company in 1906. In 1920, it was replaced by the British Phosphate Commission (BPC). [1]

… was a good introducing for the global article.-Arorae (talk) 18:21, 27 July 2020 (UTC)