Talk:White knight (business)

Question

Does anyone know the orgin of this term's use in business takeovers? If so, it would be an interesting addition to this page.

I imagine it is the normal good guy hero imagery. Also, should a note about the character in Pretty Woman becoming a white knight count? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.243.201.127 (talk) 02:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Expand please

1. Per the above, some history and references documenting the term's use should be added to the article, if available, to establish the notability of the term.
2. The terms "grey knight" and "black knight" might be better explained here than not - Grey knight was recently deleted and the far shorter Black knight (business) article probably should be as well, given that it is only a single sentence long.
3. Please source and attribute the claims that the companies mentioned in the examples section were acting as white knights. Reads like WP:OR in its current state. MrZaius^talk 19:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 2 March 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: consensus not to move the pages at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 01:26, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

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• White knight (business) → White knight
• White knight → White Knight

– Per WP:SMALLDETAILS, this is the only article with the lowercase spelling of the word. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 12:19, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose: to most people a white knight or a White Knight is first a sort of chessman. Plus all the other meanings listed in disambig page White knight. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

• I'm not sure why that would be, since knights in chess can either be white or black. I don't see people making an immediate association to chess. Also, it's not making the business term the primary topic, just primary for the lowercase spelling of it._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 18:59, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose - Gah, this is a tough one. I agree that there is no other article eligible for the lower-case name, but the business usage is somewhat obscure and WP:ASTONISHing if put at primary. I feel like the white night title deserves a WP:BROADCONCEPT in the same way that black knight is constructed, and I think we should wait on this move and push for that instead. -- Netoholic @ 10:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

• @Netoholic: There is already a broadconcept for that, it's knight-errant, but they are not necessarily portrayed as white knights, so I am not sure that redirecting White knight there would work too well unless there is enough to support a section about their portrayal as white knights._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 11:47, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

• Yeah that knight-errant article is just not what I had in mind. Its very focused on the real knights, whereas we need an article for white knight which covers the concepts that were inspired by the knight-errant. -- Netoholic @ 11:53, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose per Anthony Appleyard and Netoholic. Another similarly-positioned nomination is at Talk:Rabbit-Proof Fence (film)#Requested move 2 March 2018. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 16:54, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose. I would think that the primary meaning of a white knight would be a "good guy" knight in shining armor, comparable to a paladin. bd2412 T 04:01, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose. If anything's primary it's clearly the chess term. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

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