Talk:Freightquote

message: Since March of 2010 user 990011abc has been adamant that Jason Carlson is one of the two founders of FreightQuote. During that same time period Unregistered IP address seem adamant that the one and only founder is Tim Barton. They are not triggering an edit war because they are hand editing, not reverting. Work out your differences here on the talk page. In my opinion the unregistered IPs need to stop reverting edits by 990011abc without cause, comment, or discussion. DavesPlanet (talk) 17:45, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Knock off the co-founders edit war

message: Hello.  This article has been tagged by an unidentified user 2 times now and I'm having a hard time fixing it when they aren't giving me feedback and just adding tags as they please.  Can someone help me so that this article fits the wiki world's rules?  The article is unbiased, just more of a history and this is what that company does.  I have looked at numerous other companies and they are not getting tagged with this-for example - UPS, USPS, DHL, etc.  I did this article more as a dictionary entry as wiki stated, not as an advertisement.  I don't understand what makes this article an advertisement and every other company out there not?  Can a registered wiki editor please advise and help me? Or can the unidentified ip, 71.43.68.185 please join this discussion?
User411 (talk) 15:08, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Feedback requested on tagging

message: :Image:Freightquote RGB 0206.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:44, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Freightquote RGB 0206.JPG

message: This article clearly doesn't read as an ad, so I deleted the tag. This is factual information. - I kept the other tag because the references should be worked into the text according to Wikipedia guidelines. Also, additional references can be easily found (Google search: Freightquote.com -site:freightquote.com) and used. --Peter Eisenburger (talk) 18:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No ad 

message: I am not the person who previously tagged this article but this article clearly sounds like an advertisement. It reads like a company brochure. Let's just pull apart the first sentence
:Freightquote is an online transportation management service that delivers a vast array of freight services for a large and diverse customer base.
Yea, that's market-speak straight out of the advertising department. How about something more unbiased, like
:Freightquote is an online transportation management service that delivers a variety of freight services. Freightquote is the largest online shipping broker in the nation.
now let's pull apart the second sentence:
:These services enable customers to instantly quote and compare the shipping rates of hundreds of national and regional freight carriers.
I could do without the word "instantly", otherwise it seems reasonable. The third sentence is more problematic:
:Freightquote specializes in creating customized freight solutions to meet its customers’ needs, including truckload, LTL, expedited LTL and intermodal freight options.
Nobody reading this knows what most of those words mean. And to suggest they are customized to meet its customers’ needs is just market hype for splicing standard shipping options together. How about something like:
:Freightquote specializes in creating freight solutions from single pallets to full shipping containers moved by combinations of truck and rail.
starting to see the difference between a marketing brochure and a wikipedia entry? DavesPlanet (talk) 17:37, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  advertisement