Talk:Gracenote/Archive 2

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POV Edits by Sooahs

I reverted the article back to the last version made by Euchiasmus. user:Sooahs, a Gracenote employee, has made large deletions which skew the article's POV to benefit the company. If there are specific factual discrepancies with the article, please discuss in the talk page. I agree with the protection of this page. Employees of the company should not edit directly, but should make comments on the discussion page. Fatandhappy 22:05, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Regardless of factual accuracy, the current article is biased in its overall structure because of emphasis. See my talk page entry above (under "Compromise") for examples from the first paragraph of POV. Sooah's first paragraph (which you reverted) was closer to NPOV than the current one, although some later paragraphs had more POV than is appropriate. Can you please explain what was POV about at least Sooah's first paragraph? By the way, why are you reverting changes, rather than trying to improve them? I understand that you feel that any contribution by a Gracenote employee is suspect, but are blanket reversions really the best response? Please take another look at "Working Towards NPOV" in Wikipedia:Etiquette and rethink your approach to this article. Isotropy 02:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for being civil, and for acknowledging Sooah's version of the article had significant POV issues. The reason I reverted the article to the the version immediately prior to Sooah's version is simply because Sooah had reverted the entire article to the version Sooah originally rewrote (in its entirety) previously. As you noted, blanket reversions are not the best response, especially by someone who may be biased, such as an employee of the company that is the subject of the article. I merely reverted to the version that others had been editing before Sooahs reverted to the October 26th version. Personally, I have tried to avoid editing the article since user:Scherf, another Gracenote employee, left me a note on my user talk page two times which I felt to be a personal attack, as well as offensive and insulting. Other, non-Gracenote employee Wikipedians may edit this article at will and remove any POV, if in fact there is any POV issue. Wholesale reversions by employees of the company are not appropriate, and this has been noted several times by a number of users. Please ask that Sooahs (and others at Gracenote) read Wikipedia:Etiquette and other Wikipedia policy pages at the office when you meet. Additionally, can you please note where any factual errors occur in the article? It would make it easier to note these errors so that others may edit to correct the discrepancies. The "structure" of the article is something evolved over a period of years and through the efforts of number of Wikipedia editors, viewing Gracenote from the outside - the way that Wikipedia funtions best. Fatandhappy 12:54, 12 November 2006 (UTC)