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Reviewer: Yellow Evan (talk · contribs) 05:55, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:55, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why are stuff like electronics and software linked in the lead and not countries? I'd argue the average reader is likely to know terms in both groupings equally? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"The acquisition was interpreted as a direct attempt to challenge Walmart " in what way? As the top grocery store? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
" In 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm and moved to Seattle. He began to work on a business plan for what would eventually become Amazon.com" source? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Any more pre-1994 history? Like how long did Beezos think of the idea of Amazon?
"Since June 19, 2000, Amazon's logotype has featured a curved arrow leading from A to Z, representing that the company carries every product from A to Z, with the arrow shaped like a smile.[28]" what was the logo now and why is this so far up the paragraph when you have information about Amazon in the late 1990's further below? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"After reading a report about the future of the Internet that projected annual Web commerce growth at 2,300%, Bezos created a list of 20 products that could be marketed online." why not condense this down to "Following reports of 2,300% projected annual Web commerce growth, Bezos created a list of 20 products that could be marketed online." Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington." put this where you first mentioned it was incorporated as cadabra. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Why is there no history from the dot com bubble to 2016? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
mind combing the last four history section paragraphs? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"As of February 2016, the board of directors is:[62]" not backed up by source. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Amazon.com operates retail websites for Sears Canada, Bebe Stores, Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, and Lacoste. For a growing number of enterprise clients, including the UK merchants Marks & Spencer, Benefit Cosmetics' UK entity, edeals.com and Mothercare, Amazon provides a unified multichannel platform where a customer can interact with the retail website, standalone in-store terminals or phone-based customer service agents. Amazon Web Services also powers AOL's Shop@AOL.[citation needed]" source? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I feel some of the paragraphs in the Merchant partnerships could be combined. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Amazon.com has a number of products and services available, including:" source? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"In 1984, Brilliance Audio invented a technique for recording twice as much on the same cassette.[75] The technique involved recording on each of the two channels of each stereo track.[75] It has been credited with revolutionizing the burgeoning audiobook market in the mid-1980s since it made unabridged books affordable.[75]" mention this first in the section because it describes what the product does well, so notability is established beforehand, which allows you to go into its relevation with Amazon. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"ComiXology is a cloud-based digital comics platform with over 200 million comic downloads as of September 2013" got something newer than this? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
When was ComiXology founded? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"In December 2007, the site had over 650,000 members and over 10 million books had been added." have anything more recent? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Shelfari is a social cataloging website for books. " watch for overlinking. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"The company has also invested heavily on a massive amount of server capacity for its website, especially to handle the excessive traffic during the December Christmas holiday season.[84]" "December Christmas" is redundant; pick one of the other. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Amazon's localized storefronts, which differ in selection and prices, are differentiated by top-level domain and country code:" source for this? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"There are about 300,000 books in the program. Amazon has cooperated with around 130 publishers to allow users to perform these searches.[citation needed]" sourcE? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"To avoid copyright violations, Amazon does not return the computer-readable text of the book. Instead, it returns a picture of the matching page, instructs the web browser to disable printing and puts limits on the number of pages in a book a single user can access. Additionally, customers can purchase online access to some of the same books via the "Amazon Upgrade" program." source? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Unlike eBay, Amazon sellers do not have to maintain separate payment accounts; all payments are handled by Amazon.[citation needed]" source? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"The Amazon sales rank (ASR) provides an indication of the popularity of a product sold on any Amazon locale. It is a relative indicator of popularity that is updated hourly." combine the two sentences into something like "The Amazon sales rank (ASR) provides an indication of the popularity of a product sold on any Amazon locale, which is updated hourly." Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Amazon reported over 1.3 million sellers sold products through Amazon's websites in 2007. Unlike eBay, Amazon sellers do not have to maintain separate payment accounts; all payments are handled by Amazon.[citation needed]" source? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"On January 31, 2013 Amazon experienced an outage that lasted approximately 49 minutes, leaving its site inaccessible to some customers.[107]" need comma after date. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Any other known Amazon outages? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"On May 5, 2014 Amazon unveiled a partnership with Twitter. " ditto. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"anyone post-Amazon" why the hyphen? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Amazon also employs the use of drop shippers or meta sellers. These are members or entities that advertise goods on Amazon who order these goods direct from other competing websites but usually from other Amazon members. These meta sellers may have millions of products listed, have large transaction numbers and are grouped alongside other less prolific members giving them credibility as just someone who has been in business for a long time. Markup is anywhere from 50% to 100% and sometimes more, these sellers maintain that items are in stock when the opposite is true. As Amazon increases their dominance in the marketplace these drop shippers have become more and more commonplace in recent years.[citation needed]" source? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
" It is named Amazon Books and is located in University Village in Seattle. " don't bold per MOS. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
" The store is 5,500 square feet" convert to metric units. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
" The store is 5,500 square feet and prices for all products match those on its website.[" latter part of sentence is already mentioned earlier. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Amazon.com is primarily a retail site with a sales revenue model." how much money does it earn? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
" These include: luring customers away from the site's brick and mortar competitors,[114] poor warehouse conditions for workers; anti-unionization efforts; Amazon Kindle remote content removal; taking public subsidies; its "1-Click patent" claims; anti-competitive actions;[115] price discrimination; various decisions over whether to censor or publish content such as the WikiLeaks website; LGBT book sales rank;[116][117] and works containing libel, facilitating dogfight, cockfight, or pedophile activities." why the semicolons? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Mobile Star LLC, settled with Amazon for an undisclosed amount April 27th, 2017.[123]" see MOS:DATE, you're not suppose to put the "th" on dates. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"as well as the media and politicians for poor working conditions. In 2011 it was publicized that at the Breinigsville, Pennsylvania warehouse, workers had to carry out work in 100 °F (38 °C) heat, resulting in employees becoming extremely uncomfortable and suffering from dehydration and collapse. Loading-bay doors were not opened to allow in fresh air as "managers were worried about theft". Amazon's initial response was to pay for an ambulance to sit outside on call to cart away overheated employees.[citation needed]" source? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"In an effort to boost employee morale, on November 2, 2015, Amazon announced that it would be extending 6 weeks of paid leave for new mothers and fathers. This change includes birth parents and adoptive parents and can be applied in conjunction with existing maternity leave and medical leave for new mothers.[138]" six weeks total or six weeks greater than what it was? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Findory was founded by Greg Linden[citation needed]

Flipkart was founded by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal[153] Foodista.com was founded by Barnaby Dorfman[citation needed] Hulu was led by Jason Kilar, a former SVP[citation needed] Infibeam was founded by Vishal Mehta[citation needed] Instacart was founded by Apoorva Mehta[citation needed] Jambool and SocialGold were co-founded by Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein[citation needed] Jet.com was founded by Marc Lore[citation needed] Nimbula was co-founded by Chris Pinkham, a former VP and Willem Van Biljon, a former Product Manager[citation needed] Opscode was co-founded by Jesse Robbins, a former engineer, and manager[citation needed] Pelago was co-founded by Jeff Holden, a former SVP and Darren Vengroff, a former Principal Engineer[citation needed] Pro.com was founded by Matt Williams, former longtime Amazon executive and 'shadow' to Jeff Bezos[154] Quora was co-founded by engineer Charlie Cheever[citation needed] TeachStreet was founded by Dave Schappell, an early product manager[citation needed] The Book Depository was founded by Andrew Crawford; acquired by Amazon in 2011.[citation needed] Trusera was founded by Keith Schorsch, an early Amazonian[citation needed] Twilio was founded by Jeff Lawson, a former Technical Product Manager[citation needed] Vittana was founded by Kushal Chakrabarti and Brett Witt[citation needed] Wikinvest was founded by Michael Sha[citation needed]" most of this is unsourced. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"28 November 2016, 8:45am, a worker jump from 12-story apollo building, attempting to commit suicide then survived[155]." RIP to him but I don't think that's too important. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm failing this GAN. The article is decent in some places, but there's just too many unsourced statements for me to overlook. Regards. 06:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)