Talk:Canada Life Assurance Company

Merger proposal

I propose to merge The Great-West Life Assurance Company, Canada Life Financial, and London Life Insurance Company into The Great-West Life Assurance Company, with the merged page renamed and moved to Canada Life on the basis that it is the latter two companies that are merging into The Great-West Life Assurance Company and being renamed under the former Canada Life branding/moniker. I think that the content in the The Great-West Life Assurance Company article can easily be explained in the context of The Great-West Life Assurance Company, Canada Life Financial, and London Life Insurance Company, and the The Great-West Life Assurance Company, Canada Life Financial, and London Life Insurance Company articles are all of a reasonable size that the merging of the trio into The Great-West Life Assurance Company will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned.

Note, too, that as separate stub-class pages, there is no prospect for standalone notability as there will be no future prospects of significant coverage and corporate depth. Note further that the merger vote passed by 90% of participating policyholders at the respective companies' policyholder meetings October 3, 2019, and the merger will be completed December 31, 2019, with the consolidated entities continuing under Canada Life January 1, 2020.

To non-involved admin or editor closer: Following consensus, we will require either an administrator or editor with page move permissions in order to perform a round-robin page swap with Canada Life to suppress the redirect. Doug Mehus (talk) 22:07, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

• It's extremely hard to gauge what to merge with what when these company pages are so poorly references and small at this point. And why not merge some of it into The Great-West Lifeco parent company page? That is bigger right now, but still plenty of room to grow. If they do grow, maybe it is worth keeping them separate, if they are hard to expand, definitely merge in. I am adding some references to get the ball rolling, but doubt that will be enough to gauge things immediately. 70.240.207.189 (talk) 21:02, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

  Well, since The Great-West Life Assurance Company is the surviving company effective January 1, 2020, at which point it will be renamed Canada Life Assurance Company, I figured that should be the merger target. ( Done GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 14:09, 22 December 2019 (UTC))

  GenQuest, Thanks. My concern was that The Great-West Life Assurance Company was the surviving company, even though it's going to be renamed as Canada Life Assurance Company effective January 1, 2020. As well, it was the longer article, and my concern was that attribution should favour that article. I see you moved the page over Canada Life Assurance Company, but I don't see where you incorporated the page content from that article into The Great-West Life Assurance Company? Should we not do a WP:HISTMERGE in that case? And finally, can you diarize this to complete the merge as outlined in my nomination such that the articles are consolidated into this one and renamed Canada Life over redirect? Doug Mehus T·C 01:58, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

• I have just completed the first step, I will continue to work on the articles over the holidays. I just had surgery, and my energy is low. That's the bad news. The good news is, I'll have time to devote to Wikipedia the next couple of weeks. Regards, GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 06:01, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

At that point, we'd rename using a round-robin page swap to Canada Life consistent with WP:COMMONNAME. In terms of the merger logistics, I was thinking of having a "History" or "Origins" section, with each of the former companies being a next-level sub-section. We could potentially merge later to Great-West Lifeco, but I think that's something that should be discussed later. Doug Mehus T·C 01:55, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Citations

Unless I'm wrong and Wikipedia's Manual of Style has changed, it's not necessary to wikilink to the news source for the References section. Before my edit, there were two refs with wikilinks pointing to the CBC (disambiguation) page. So I redid these two by making them Cite news and used the Publicaton field for CBC News Manitoba. Jimj wpg (talk) 08:03, 18 December 2019 (UTC)