Talk:Heartland Payment Systems

message: I removed this bit- it would appear Heartland Payment Systems want the article about them expanded.  What they don't seem to get is that Wikipedia is not an advertising or promotional service and that you aren't supposed to write about your own organization.  Anyway, I put it here in case other Wikipedians want to write it up a little more encyclopedic.  OTOH, perhaps they aren't notable enough. --Treekids (talk) 01:37, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blatant Promotional Material 

message: You would have no idea, after reading this article, that Heartland had suffered the largest security breach in history.--Elvey (talk) 05:55, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The 2008/9 breach incident was/is huge and this article does not give that impression. So who will bear the burden of fixing it? 71.236.136.184 (talk) 15:59, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: As a follow up confirmation: "Heartland, the fifth-biggest payments processor in the U.S., had suffered what within days would be called the largest-ever criminal breach of card data. Security experts estimate that as many as 100 million cards issued by more than 650 financial services companies may have been compromised. Heartland faces class actions and inquiries by federal regulators over the matter." 71.236.136.184 (talk) 18:43, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The clever bastards didn't just whitewash the Wikipedia page. I just realized that they even made the original press release on 2009-01-20, also known as inauguration day, and not just any inauguration day, but the First inauguration of Barack Obama (read as 'the inauguration of the first black American president' that had everyone's full attention that day). So what is this I've been hearing about in the news in the last day or so? Was there a new breach, or is this just about bringing charges against the people that perpetrated the 2008/9 hacking? 71.236.136.184 (talk) 19:25, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whitewash 

message: On February 5, I added header re: litigation; paragraph about a lawsuit filed by the nominal subject recently.
The same day, User:SFK2 deleted my source (an article from BankCreditNews about Heartland Payment Systems suing Mercury Payment Systems) and replaced it with a different source (a Yahoo News article about Heartland Payment Systems suing Mercury Payment Systems). The articles both discuss the lawsuit. In his edit summary, User:SFK2 wrote "replaced it with a neutral source."
That is false. The Yahoo News article that User:SFK2 inserted is a copy of a BusinessWire press release issued by Heartland Payment Systems! (at the very top of the "article" it says "BUSINESS WIRE", a press release distribution service, and it has Heartland Payment Systems listed as the provider of the story!!). I cannot see any conceivable argument that a press release ISSUED BY the company in question is more "neutral" than an original news article written ABOUT that company.
However, in the spirit of cooperation, I will keep User:SFK2 Yahoo link. But I will also add back in the Bank credit news link. So the paragraph will have TWO citations. Even better.
Carpalclip3 (talk) 00:15, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:SFK2]] replaced news source with a press release issued by Heartland, and claimed he was providing a "neutral source" 

message: Is there a reason why there is no article on Global Payments? It is the surviving entity after this company was bought out right? Trialeditor (talk) 19:06, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving this page/creating a new page for Global Payments 

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message: I'm too new and low down the chain to modify this, so can someone look at the "See Also" section? This is graffiti, right? Right now it purports to be two links about Russian interference in the 2016 election, and I can't find anything in the article that relates to this.
Lontjr (talk) 18:44, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  See Also