Talk:John Laing

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Latest comment: 11 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

Hi there,

I am a PR professional (working for an external agency) representing John Laing plc and have an edit I would like to make to the "John Laing" page. The section I am looking to edit is the disambiguation page. At the moment it describes John Laing plc as a "British developer and construction company." John Laing haven't actually built anything for a number of years since they sold their building arm, and so this descriptor is no longer accurate. I would like to change this to "infrastructure asset manager and investor" as per the descriptor found at the bottom of the company's press releases (one example of this can be found here: ^[1]

References

^ http://laing.com/news/185/27/John-Laing-plc-results-for-the-year-to-31-December-2012.html

- what is the best way of going about this?

I am keen to go about this according to the appropriate guidelines, so any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards

PS I'm really sorry if the link doesn't work - previous attempts have produced a dead [1] but I think this might be an improvement.

Sdmpwct (talk) 14:43, 2 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

I think we have resolved this in the discussion at the Help Desk. Jayron's recent edit to the disam page seems logical to me.--ukexpat (talk) 17:22, 2 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hi there

Thank you for your help in updating this, it is much appreciated. However, the new description describes John Laing plc as a sub-bullet of Sir John Laing the businessman and, by describing it as "the company he ran" doesn't really make it clear that this is a very sizeable business in the UK that is also a well known name in its own right. Sir John Laing's role was, of course, important, but to describe it in this way may not be the most helpful to Wikipedia users looking for further information. Would it be possible to change it to a bullet it in its own right (as it was before the earlier edit was made) and to describe it as "the infrastructure company" instead?

I would really welcome your thoughts on this, and many thanks again for your help so far.

Regards

Sdmpwct (talk) 13:35, 10 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

amended. Dormskirk (talk) 21:40, 10 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

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[1] ttp://laing.com/news/185/27/John-Laing-plc-results-for-the-year-to-31-December-2012.html

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