Talk:MapInfo Corporation

message: The article was pure P.R. -- lots of words and phrases that added bulk but no meaning to the whole. I fear that this article will become part of an edit war with the original writer (or company flacks). If that's you (and you're reading this :) ), please read this section before editing. (For the record, I was a journalist for four years and a P.R. executive for another four. I sympathise. But this is Wikipedia.) --tgeller 18:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing out P.R. bloviation

message: I just completley rewrote this article, removing all the advertising and just providing the basic facts.  I also removed the  template.  -Aude (talk | contribs) 03:57, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article rewrite

message: As has been discused elsewhere on wikipedia, MapInfo is not in Troy. The company's headquarters is several miles south of the city, in North Greenbush.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.195.201.47 (talk) 02:49, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not in Troy

message: Maybe it should say what product it became: "inspiration for the Microsoft MapPoint program, which became a separate product from Microsoft, and since that Microsoft Map was dropped."  -- SEWilco (talk) 21:33, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where did it go? 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
* Oppose. No rationale in terms of WP:AT. Andrewa (talk) 13:06, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Cleanup or worse still required.
Infobox says Revenue $165.5 million USD (2005), Employees 900 (2005) with a non-MOS-compliant link direct to http://www.pbinsight.com/welcome/mapinfo/ and no retrieval date and that page doesn't currently support these figures.
So verifiability currently not established, notability unknown, previous advert and COI issues, and lead now reads a leading Location Intelligence/ GIS company with no reference for the leading which strikes me as a citation needed at least. Multiple issues despite the work above.
I'm not going to AFD it for now, I'll AGF and the AFD case is not all that strong but just possible IMO as it stands. Andrewa (talk) 20:51, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I obviously have a conflict of interest, but I hope that doesn't preclude me from doing some of the legwork necessary to hunt down and insert some missing references. They're from the New York Times, so I hope you find them verifiable and that they establish notability. -AndrewDressel (talk) 01:14, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: NYT is an excellent source IMO, and there's absolutely no objection to your providing those refs. There's a systematic problem with COI in that an interest in any area generally leads to both expertise and opinions. We want the expertise! But so long as you're aware of the problem, normally (not always) there isn't one. Andrewa (talk) 04:04, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability and verifiability

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