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[edit] Is anyone paying attention to this page? Time for some clean-up

So it seems as if Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Financial Times, WorldBank, and others, I'm sure, have different sector classification systems. However, the NAICS is, according to Wikipedia, somewhat compatible with the International_Standard_Industrial_Classification and the Statistical_classification_of_economic_activities_in_the_European_Community (NACE) of the EU. We'll have to keep this in mind as the article is improved.

Anyway, I may put in some work on this page if I find the time. Maybe. It would be nice to have a broad overview of sectors on Wikipedia. ImpIn | (t - c) 08:17, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Changed the sectors of industry to sectors of the economy

I changed all the sectors, which were titled either "sector of economic activity" or "sector of industry" randomly. Maybe this change was unnecessary and ill-thought out, as "sector of industry" is shorter. But at least they're all the same now. "Industry", for better or worse, tends to be associated with manufacturing itself rather than service goods, even though it can refer to any sort of economic activity. Dictionary.com reflects that bias: "1. the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry." ImpIn | (t - c) 03:16, 20 June 2008 (UTC)