User talk:Andrew walker

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Any Question Answered and Texperts

I'll take a look and see if I see anything. -- ArglebargleIV 16:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a soapbox on which to air your grudges, slight or otherwise. Nor is it a place for advertising and marketing, which the Performance section of the Texperts article resembled. Both AQA and Texperts are capable of making mistakes, since all questions are answered by humans, but individual anecdotes on performance have no place on an encyclopedia. Andrew walker 17:37, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Nor is Wikipedia a place to edit articles for the company you are employed by, or indeed for their rivals. Both AQA and Texperts do make mistakes, you are right - and surely the individual mistakes pan out to form an overall picture of the company. Several specific examples - which I provided - serve to illustrate Texpert's average response time, comparing it with other main players in the business, such as AQA and ANSA. If you can find any other sources to balance it out, I'd be happy to include them in the interests of fairness. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 20:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you read the guidelines properly. There is nothing to indicate that you may not edit the article of a company you work for, providing you maintain neutrality and cite reliable sources. In the case of your recent edits to the Any Question Answered article, I sought out a neutral party to settle the dispute. Your edit history speaks for itself, however. You've made a number of malicious edits to the Any Question Answered article, including listing the logo for deletion on a technicality, when you could have discussed the matter with me. If you do not work for Texperts, as you claim, you certainly make a very good job of making it look like you do, and you're certainly not doing the company any favours by behaving in the way you have done. Andrew walker 21:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right sir. I edited the articles in a biased manner. I was not impressed with AQA, but I was impressed with your rivals. I then acted to improve their page - but not at the expense of yours. I'll tell you what - if you're keen, Wikipedia needs an article on this sort of company set up. I know a lot about Wikipedia (5000 edits, thereabouts), and I'm keen to help - but being in full-time education and occasionally being away for weeks on end training is not conducive to my improving the field :-). You're an expert in the field, and I'm not here to make enemies - let's remove the section I added on 'performance' and possibly consider writing a new article about this sort of company? Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 22:05, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please, no need to call me sir, only the police do that! ;) I definitely think that collaborating on a mobile information services article would be a more constructive use of our collective time. Both AQA and Texperts are great companies, and seems a bit silly debating who's best. Much better to write a neutral article which focuses on the good points of all companies in the sector. I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience with AQA - I've had the occasional bad answer off them too, but I've also had some incredibly good ones. The same is true for Texperts. It's just one of the problems with human-based answer services I think, but it sounds like you were rather inconvenienced to say the least. I'm not really an expert in the field, just a researcher and, like you, I'm also in full-time education, but I'd be happy to help in any way I can. Andrew walker 23:07, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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