Talk:The Funding Portal
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User made article neutral. Accepted at AfC. Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 01:51, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Self-referencing = promotional?
[edit]I somehow doubt that reference material provided by the subject's website should act as a reliable/verifiable source. With this strategy, couldn't someone put whatever they want on their website and then quote it as fact? (This is with regard to reference 1, which simply points to the services home page...)
Second, the criticism section is in no way a criticism since "The Funding Portal [...] does not practice contingency-based billing". Considering the link then goes to their pricing page, it seems even more out of place.
Third, "the Portal advertises as Canada’s largest searchable database of public funding programs offering unlimited searches." is a very sly way of including a non-factual statement in the article. They do not have the largest searchable database of public funding programs ajah.ca advertises as having close to 10,000 programs: http://ajah.ca/home/features/.
Finally, why are their no articles on other "funding portal" like services such as grants-loans.org, Fundica.com, mentorworks.ca or ajah.ca or a competitors section at least? Both Fundica and grants-loans have been providing this type of service for longer than the funding portal and advertise similarly sized databases. What actually makes this one services more notable than the others? Shouldn't this article be about funding portals in general?