Talk:HeinOnline

message: I suggest moving this article to "William S. Hein & Co", and converting it to a company article, mentioning Hein Online as a product, and setting HeinOnline as a redirect to the product section of the article. The sources for the company are better than the sources for the product. See discussion of WP:COIN.
Useful non-PR sources about the company:
* They're privately held, 80+ years old, and the grandson of the founder is the chairman of the board.
* A developer bought their headquarters building in Buffalo, NY.. 
* They won a Vision Award from Niagara University in Buffalo in 2009, and that article has some background on the company we could use in an article.  
* They have a gallery of black and white building photographs.. 
* A Canadian legal publication had a brief article about them..
There's enough here for a company stub.  
John Nagle (talk) 06:06, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest move to company name 

message: Please consider the following changes. Please note that I am requesting these edits on behalf of William S. Hein & Co., Inc. and I have therefore declared my conflict of interest here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#HeinOnline.
Oct. 23, 2015: I have modified the article to include additional non-Hein-website sources, including an article written by Bob Berring, a noted member of the law librarian community (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Berring). I removed the second reference to ScholarCheck, removed the reference to the Choice award and added the fact that Hein was named to the top eContent 100 companies list in 2007, and sourced the article itself. I do realize that I am still sourcing Hein's own sites, but this is the only source where I could find specific information, such as the number of pages, titles, libraries and scope of coverage available. 
In re: award significance, the AALL New Product Award is considered significant in the law library community. I missed the fact that this company also won the award in 2001 and 2009.
Per John Nagle's concerns below. Miniapolis 22:15, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Five of the references are to Hein's own output, and one is to a business partner. Not one reference is to what Wikipedia considers a reliable unrelated source, per WP:RS. ScholarCheck is hyped twice. The significance of some of those awards is questionable. John Nagle (talk) 17:57, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: In addition to the sources previously referenced, this 2015 article discusses HeinOnline's relationship with an important legal title and the American Association of Law Libraries:
http://www.aallnet.org/mm/Publications/spectrum/archives/Vol-20/No-2/novdec2015pdf.pdf
This article from 2010 discusses the Hein Company, its employees, and products:
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/buffalo-law-journal/2010/05/firm-supplies-books-to-high-volume-legal-libraries.html
This article, which appeared in the Buffalo News on June 3, 2012 also discusses the history of the Hein Company, the beginning of HeinOnline, and other company endeavors:
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2012/06/03/6343117.htm
Note that the numbers in these articles have increased significantly. Please refer to the original edit request on the Talk Page for COI information and additional resources. 
173.225.61.254 (talk) 15:22, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Sources for Information about HeinOnline 

message: It reads like a sales pitch, in violation of WP:NOT and WP:NPOV.  The citations are much better now but the promotional aspect needs to be toned down. The article also should be subdivided into sections. --Coolcaesar (talk) 20:10, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article has too much of a promotional tone