Talk:Janes Information Services

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Howard from NYC in topic Q: any known scandals or investigations or censorship?

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I thought Jane was a first name, not a surname. I found it strange how one woman would have such a fascination with military vehicles. JIP | Talk 15:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

I know right! Always thought it was the female name. :) 192.121.232.253 (talk) 12:15, 30 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Question

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Does this Jane have something to do with the 1990's flightsimulators from Jane's/EA?

Jane's provided EA with the data for the aircraft and weapons in the games, and in return got a cut of the profits. Impi 21:53, 28 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
Don't forget that the Jane's brand has a strong association with accuracy, and EA wanted to convey that to their audience. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 21:57, 28 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Recent additions to the list of annual books

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I have shunted these here to be sorted out. The anonymous editor who placed them here deleted some information. This needs to be cleaned up:

Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:17, 20 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Transport Business

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They also have a transport business news section. Maybe to be added? Ingolfson 05:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

It might be of some value [1]. 66.191.19.217 (talk) 23:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Ownership

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Can the bulk of the ownership details in the intro (namely previous ownership) be removed or placed into it's own ownership / corporate history section? Are previous ownership percentages crucial to understanding what Jane's is?

Done. It didn't make a lot of sense to discuss an ex-owners financial stake without context and also have no detail about the current owners status. And no source to say that who owns how much was relevant anyway. Cheers. Weakopedia (talk) 22:11, 21 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Competitors

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Get rid of The Shephard Group as a competitor - the guy who added that entry was their former marketing manager. They only compete on a very small number of products. Methna7 (talk) 22:11, 24 Feb 2012 (UTC)

reasons for pruning

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Really, it's almost entirely a list, rather than an article. It's the sort of thing that might be pasted up here by a publisher (for marketing purposes) or an enthusiastic fan. Neither use is acceptable.

Almost all of the entries are "red-linked" meaning that the publications aren't important enough to merit a Wikipedia article.

None of the entries has a prose explanation of the publication.

Given those three failings, it'd perhaps be better to delete this completely. However, I'll begin by removing the red.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 09:47, 24 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

First, I cut all those red links, which took entirely too long. Then I removed all entries lacking an article or even a rudimentary source. What remained was turned into sentences. Finally, the pointless section divisions were dropped.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 16:55, 1 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Comparison to WEG

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How similar is Jane's to the Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG) that many militaries use? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.92.159.28 (talk) 07:05, 18 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Q: any known scandals or investigations or censorship?

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Howard from NYC (talk) 15:48, 6 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

given these various publication contain intel of value to various governmental entities (military officers, covert intelligence analysts, policy wonks, etc) it would not be a surprise if efforts at censorship occurred; so too scandals and/or investigations;