The result was no consensus. v/r - T P 03:35, 19 December 2011 (UTC) reply
OK, I'm bringing this here because I don't know what else to do with it. Almost every substantive edit since not long after this article was created has been made by employees of a PR firm (see Wikipedia:Bell Pottinger COI Investigations) determined to make this look like a happy, shiny company that we should all invest our money in and equally determined to remove any mention of allegations that the business has a shadier side. However, once we remove the fluff, we're basically left with "Dahabshiil is a money transfer business and it is alleged to have connections to terrorism". I wouldn't be comfortable with that, so I'm bringing it here to determine whether consensus is comfortable with that, whether we want to delete it (my personal preference), or whether there's hope for it that I've overlooked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:54, 9 December 2011 (UTC) reply
I did a google news search on Dahabshiil.
The United Nations Development Program uses Dahabshiil to transfer money for local programs, said Álvaro Rodríguez, the agency's director for Somalia. 'Such companies provide the only safe and efficient option to transfer funds to projects benefiting the most vulnerable people of Somalia,' he said. 'Their service is fast and efficient.'mirror
Mogadishu's marketplaces, Bakara and Hamarweyne, bustle with enterprise. Many deals are done in Somali shillings, a currency without a central bank to support it. Local businessmen guess the shilling is kept afloat by 'common assent'. Remittances in hard currency funnelled through hawala (Islamic word-of-mouth banks) may have more to do with it. The biggest of the banks, Dahabshiil, has offices in 40 countries. It moves a 'large share' of the $1 billion or more that Somalis abroad send to relatives back home each year. 'We now operate under full banking licences,' says Dahabshiil's boss, Abdirashid Duale, who spends much of his time in London.mirror
They came to us and said, can you solve my Google problem. And their problem was, while they had a very ethical business, doing things the right way and transferring 90 per cent of money going in and out of Somalia and other war-torn countries, different markets in Africa, including money for aid agencies, for the UN etc – when you looked at Google, the vast majority of the searches on the first five pages were about a former employee who was holed up in Guantanamo Bay, who had left Dahabshiil long before he was arrested. No charges had been brought against him but nonetheless he was this former Dahabshiil employee and this was the story. It took us three months, but after three months we searched down the first 10 pages of Google – you couldn't find it within the first 10 pages."mirror
Frankly, in my opinion, the nomination very seriously exagerated the extent to which this article had been rendered unreliable by shills.
Now if you took a meaningful look at what the references actually say, and you still think there is a taint to the article, I request you be specific about how that taint is manifested. Geo Swan ( talk) 20:38, 11 December 2011 (UTC) reply