Template talk:Companies based in Metro Vancouver

Electronic Arts

Is EA (as opposed to EA Canada, which is elsewhere in the listing) considered to be a "Vancouver Corporation" despite being headquartered in Redwood City, California? Sure, they have an office, but still... might as well list McDonald's too, since there's lots of those in Vancouver :) --75.22.182.106 (talk) 07:04, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Noticed the same on Nintendo, though in that case Nintendo is the pipe on Nintendo of Canada.Skookum1 (talk) 05:09, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Awkward title/wording

I changed this templates' headings which used "Metro Vancouver", which is totally inappropriate for the region, as "Metro Vancouver" is the name of teh government of the REGIONAL DISTRICT (NOT the region);, and the regional district is still named the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Regional districts do not govern corporations or economic activity; economic matters are classified/structured around Development Regions, which in this case is Mainland Southwest, so they're not really relevant at all for anything other than sewer/water and zoning/planning (land-use planning, not economic planning). Abuse of regional districts as geogrpahic classifiers for BC is out of control and entirely original research and out-of-context. In the case of the filming locations article, the phrasing "in the Vancouver area" is used because sites in Mission, Abbotsford and Chilliwack (and Squamish/Whistler and Hope) were included in the list; and it's a more meaningful regional grouping. When the regional district is cited it forces arbitrary limits on things that aren't bound by regional district boundaries. Still, either "Ggreater" or "Metro" could be dropped altogether as both are superfluous, and even though Greater Vancouver as a term originated long before the creation of the regional district it now implies the regional district. But/Also "Vancouver corporations in the [whatever] Vancouver area" is obviously redundant and juxtaposes two different meanings of "Vancouver", one which in many cases here apparently includes Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey etc (which are clearly not "Vancouver" though clearly "Vancouver area" and/or "Greater Vancouver (area)". I haven't examined the listings to see if there's any companies in Mission, Abby etc but if there are that makes the title even more cumbersome/awkward. And given the eventual number of entries, maybe limiting this by municipality would be better, e.g. {{North Vancouver Corporations}}, {{Burnaby corporations}} etc.....(which would also step around the sloppy/wrong regionalization system that wikipedians have very mistakenly built around regional districts).Skookum1 (talk) 05:09, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Should be broken up by sector

This is getting bulky and "run on" content-wise; suggest breaking into:

• IT
• Film/TV production
• Media and Advertising
• Financial and Consulting
• Resource Sector
• Technology & Manufacturing
• Tourism & Hospitality
• Education
• etc.

Open to suggestions on what those sectors should be; it might also be a better idea to have separate templates, e.g. "IT companies in Vancouver", "Media and Advertising companies in Vancouver" etc.Skookum1 (talk) 00:55, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

• I agree on the need for some sections. In fact, as it stands now I think this navbox could be deleted per Wikipedia:Template namespace guidelines, as large and unwieldy template that works much better as a category. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:27, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Mountain Equipment Co-Op

I removed it from the template given it is no longer operating (as the co-op name/legal entity that was previously entered.) With the LA based side of the startup MEC Canada I'm wondering if we should include it here -- Tawker (talk) 17:01, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Agree The new legal entity just opened their main office in Vancouver next to the Co-op's past office with the core executive team based there, so I would support its inclusion. Since this hasn't received any other feedback since November, I will go ahead and make the edit. Daylen (talk) 06:12, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Slack Technologies

Although Slack was founded in Vancouver and maintains an office here, since they are now incorporated in California and have their executive team in San Francisco, I would propose their removal from this template. Please ping me in your reply. If no objections exist, I will make the edit in one week. Cheers, Daylen (talk) 06:12, 2 May 2021 (UTC)