Talk:Government-owned corporation

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Contents 1 Article is wrong? 2 I'm moving 3 Merger 4 I will be transferring in content from Public benefit corporation 5 Renaming subsection 6 Examples Part for US - US Postal Service

[edit] Article is wrong?

umm, actually I think this article is wrong. The term "public corporation" is used to mean publically traded company in almost all articles Ive ever read (when they article writer needs to dinstinguish that corperation from a privately owned one)

yes--this is confusing--I've not heard this used this way, at least not for U.S. companies. And to make matters worse, I got here from a link that indicated it was about municipal corporations like townships anc cities. older≠wiser 01:18, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

It's even worse than that--this article says A public corporation "stands distinct from a publicly traded company (sometimes known as a public company). However, that article says "Literally a public company is a company owned by the public." Something is very confused here (and I don't think it is only me). older≠wiser

This is really confusing. It's not a "public company", it's a "government company". - Jerryseinfeld 23:40, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] I'm moving

This is about government owned businesses and it's moving. - Jerryseinfeld 23:48, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Merger

I am opposed to the merger of Public ownership and Government-owned corporation. A Government-owned corporation is only one of many types of public ownership. Biscuittin 20:11, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Since no discussion since May, I'm removing the flag.--Gregalton 02:57, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

The terminology in the article appears to be Australian terminology and inapplicable to the larger English speaking world. State-run is preferable in at least the US. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.168.200.170 (talk) 06:07, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

This merger is obviously tendentious, rather than being done in the name of more and better information. The It should be undone. The GSE section is a total mess. When a reader looks up "GSE", searching for information about how the secondary mortgage market was created, that reader should not be redirected to a page like this. I will either take it on myself to change the redirect or dispute that part of the merger formally. --Dlawbailey (talk) 19:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] I will be transferring in content from Public benefit corporation

Some New York-based editor apparently didn't realize that "public benefit corporation" in the sense of a government-owned corporation is apparently used that way only in New York and now we have a huge mess in public benefit corporation because most U.S. states use that term for a nonprofit or not-for-profit corporation. Therefore I will be turning public benefit corporation soon into a disambiguation page and moving a lot of content here in a few weeks. Any objections? See also Talk:Public benefit corporation for more info. --Coolcaesar (talk) 07:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

No one has objected. Doing it now. --Coolcaesar (talk) 09:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually never did get around to it (got distracted after posting that last edit above). But this article really needs to be fixed!--Coolcaesar (talk) 05:58, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming subsection

I'm renaming Government-owned_corporation#Western_Europe to "Europe" since even the examples given aren't limited to that region and ambiguity of west/central/east defnintionVoidLurker (talk) 21:09, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Examples Part for US - US Postal Service

The article uses the US Postal Service as an example of a Government-owned corporation. However, the article for the US Postal Service^[1] shows with a source that the US Postal Service is sometimes confused with a Government-Owned corporation but really isn't. My inclination is to remove this example. Any thoughts? Westeast (talk) 05:17, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

It should not be mentioned in this article. As I noted in the USPS article, the U.S. Supreme Court ALREADY decided in 2004 that the USPS is not a government-owned corporation. This was an easy issue for the court; the decision was unanimous with no concurrences or dissents. I just traced the error back to one of the earliest edits to this article back in 2003 by User:Alex756, who is, um, not too smart about legal matters (as you can see from his user page, he didn't quite understand the GFDL when he signed up for Wikipedia).

This article is a sad example of Wikipedia's huge number of orphan articles---the very small number of experts in this field (on the law of government-owned corporations) have no interest in editing it because they have no interest, or time, to deal with the huge number of vandals, children, and idiots who edit Wikipedia. And I have no interest in it either because I don't litigate for or against government-owned corporations. So it just gets worse and worse and worse. --Coolcaesar (talk) 18:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)