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Hello, I’m an employee at DXC, the subject of this article. I am refraining from doing direct edits myself because of the conflict of interest policy. Another DXC employee, Chiminpin12, had been making requests but she no longer works at this company. @Galobtter: since you most recently did a request edit review, I though I would alert you.
1. Please update the info box:
| revenue = 
US$17.7 billion (fiscal year 2021)[1]
| operating_income = US$944 million (fiscal year 2021)[2]
| net_income = US$146 million (fiscal year 2021)[2]
| assets = US$22 billion (fiscal year 2021)[2]
| equity = US$4.97 billion (fiscal year 2021)[2]
| num_employees = 134,000 (May 2021)[3]
Rationale: Updates financials and number of employees; includes reliable sources.
Done. Note that above numbers are actually from previous fiscal. I've updated the infobox based on the latest Form 10-K. Ptrnext (talk) 04:23, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
2. In the History section, please remove the subsection “Creation.”
Rationale: Creation subsection is redundant and doesn’t follow Wikipedia best practices. The content under the subsection is also not all about “Creation.”
3. In the History section - please remove the last sentence in the first paragraph for redundancy:
By June 2021, the employee count of DXC has come down to 134,000.[4]
Rationale: Sentence is out of chronological order, and is repeated at the end of the History section.
4. Please update the first paragraph in the History section
From:
DXC Technology was founded on April 3, 2017 when the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) spun off its Enterprise Services business and merged it with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).[5] At the time of its creation, DXC Technology had revenues of $25 billion, employed 170,000 people and operated in 70 countries.[6]
To:
DXC Technology was founded on April 3, 2017 when Hewlett Packard Enterprise’ Enterprise Services business unit merged with the Computer Sciences Corporation.[7] The company provided business-to-business IT services, including supporting the U.S. and other governments in maintaining and operating their computer systems.[7] It began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DXC.[8] At the time of its creation, DXC Technology had revenues of $25 billion and 6,000 public and private sector clients.[9]
Rationale: Eliminates superfluous language. Adds Washington Post as source citing April 3rd as the founding date. Adds information about services the company provides. Rewrites sentence about revenue upon foundation for clarity, and eliminates repetitive information (which appears at the end of the article). Relocates the information about 170,000 employees and 70 countries to the end of the article to improve structure. Adds reliable sources.
5. In the History section, please remove the second paragraph:
The spinoff from Hewlett Packard Enterprise did not include two parts of the Enterprise Services segment: the Mphasis Limited reporting unit and the Communications and Media Solutions product group.[5]
Rationale: Sentence is extraneous.
6. In the History section, please replace the fifth paragraph
From:
“In 2019 Mike Salvino was named president and CEO of DXC Technology. He previously served as group chief executive for Accenture Operations.[10]”
To:
Mike Salvino, the former Accenture chief group executive, was named president and CEO of DXC Technology in 2019.[11]
Rationale: Slight rewrite for concision, and replaces a press release with a reliable source.
7. Please replace the last sentence of the History section
From:
By June 2021, DXC had 98,000 employees of which 47,000 employees in countries such as India, the Philippines, Eastern Europe, and Vietnam.[12]
To:
As of November 2021, DXC employed 134,000 in over 70 countries, including the United States, India, the Philippines, Central Europe and Vietnam.[3][13]
Rationale: Corrects number of DXC employees with a much more reliable source; includes number of countries and updates with additional reliable sourcing.
8. In the Acquisitions subsection, please replace the first paragraph
From:
In 2017, the company completed its first acquisition, buying Tribridge, a provider of Microsoft Dynamics 365 software.[14]
To:
In July 2017, DXC purchased enterprise software company Tribridge and its affiliate company Concerto Cloud Services for $152 million.[15]
[16]
Rationale: Adds month of acquisition and price. Corrects that the acquisition included Tribridge’s affiliated company, Concerto Cloud Services. Clarifies that Tribridge is an enterprise software company. Removes Microsoft 365 reference: while Tribridge was a provider of Microsoft Dynamics 365 software, their specialty was inclusive of cloud computing and enterprise software for other clients (not just Microsoft). Updates and adds reliable sourcing for all.
9. Please replace the second sentence in sixth paragraph (only one word is changing):
From:
“Atos has proposed for US$10 billion including debt for acquisition.[17][18]”
To::
Atos had proposed for US$10 billion including debt for acquisition.[19][20]
Rationale: Rewrites to correct tense - from “has” to “had” since this is the past.
Epictetusfollower (talk) 17:31, 12 July 2022 (UTC) Epictetusfollower (talk) 17:31, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Partly done. #4 and #5 are not yet done. Not sure if #5 is really extraneous. Someone should be able to review those two. Ptrnext (talk) 03:53, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for helping update the DXC page, including the financials {{u|Ptrnext}!. One error slipped in, though: the information updated for the financials is for fiscal 2021, not calendar 2022, even though the 10k was filed in early 2022. It has to be the prior fiscal year – after all, calendar 2022 is not even over yet! :) This is confirmed by NASDAQ data and the 10k. (See below)
Can you please correct the date in the infobox to state (fiscal year 2021) or (FY 2021)?
There’s also a mistake with the Operating Income number. According to the most recent financial statement you used from the company here (and double-checked against Nasdaq the operating income should be this:
| operating_income = 
US$139 million ( FY 2021)[2]
Thanks for being an editor doing Request Edit reviews. Epictetusfollower (talk) 20:55, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @Epictetusfollower, I had used the EBIT in place as some of the adjustments were not clear to me whether they were OPEX. I will just use the figure from the Nasdaq as you've suggested. Regarding the year, I already have "Financials as of March 31, 2022" in the infobox footnotes to clarify. I don't believe FY2021 is right (see the company's 8-K filing where it refers the current one as FY22 and refers to 2022 results). Also these details are in the company's 2022 annual report. Ptrnext (talk) 19:03, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks Ptrnext for your help, I appreciate it. I have one more request regarding the title for Mike Salvino - can his title in the Infobox be updated to Chairman, President and CEO?
| key_people = Mike Salvino
Chairlzn, President and CEO)[21]
His appointment as Chairman of this Fortune 500 company was announced in May (source: [22]) Chairman of the Board is a distinct job from CEO. As references, I looked at a few other company pages like Cigna, The Hershey Company, State Farm and Lockheed Martin, all of which list these titles for the leader.
If you have a chance, I’d like to request the same change at the page Mike Salvino for the “Occupation” line.
Thanks. Epictetusfollower (talk) 16:26, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- Done Ptrnext (talk) 22:57, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
