User talk:Zambaccian

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! I am glad to see a new face around here =) I did notice, however, that you are really light on edit summaries. It is actually policy that editors use edit summaries, you can see this at Wikipedia:Edit summary. The edit summaries help other people understand your changes and make it easier for us all to cooperate on editing an article. You can leave a message at my talk page if you have any questions. Again, welcome to Wikipedia. Triddle 21:12, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Featured Picture 2 Discounted utility 3 Contacting user 4 Elizondo suggested text 5 Bose (audio) 5.1 Third Paragraph in "Criticisms" at Bose 6 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bose Headphone Family 7 Burning Man Regional Events Infobox 8 Green Tortoise

[edit] Featured Picture

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[edit] Discounted utility

Thanks for your clarification at Discounted utility. --BillC 00:13, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contacting user

You can e-mail the user about the image file by clicking this link. --CBDunkerson 13:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Elizondo suggested text

Hey, if you have a chance I'd love if you could head over to Talk:Horacio Elizondo and take a look at the suggested text. Thanks! Vickser 18:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bose (audio)

I'd like to discuss some of the reverts in the Bose article, see the talk page. I figure this'll be more productive than endless reverts, so please help me iron this out. --Zambaccian 19:44, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank-you very much for contacting me about this. I would love to help make this article as NPOV as possible

I reverted

"Also, more US households (17.5 million by Forrester's estimate) aspired to own Bose products than the products of any other consumer-electronics or computer manufacturer -- Dell, Apple, Sony, Pioneer, TiVo, etc. The study indicates that many people trust the Bose brand because they believe that the products are quality products."

since this was a factual statement from Forrester Research published in March 2006 and I see no reason why this shouldn't be kept.

Bose does sell its products in many stores aside form target and best buy. It can be found in many home grown stereo stores world wide and even in other corporate stereo stores like Magnolia Hi-Fi

I have no problem in rewording anything weather it be a praise or criticism. Just let me know what you disagree with and I'm sure we can make this article better. Talk to you later. -- UKPhoenix79 01:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Third Paragraph in "Criticisms" at Bose

It's still too awkward to me IMO. I went over the entire paragraph to make it less awkward as I can, and the latest edit is the best I can do. Read the third paragraph at the criticisms as much as you can, and see if you can make it less awkward. Thanks. — The Evil in Everyone (U * T/R * CTD) 02:54, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bose Headphone Family

I know that you have worked on Bose related pages before and I was hoping that I could get you involved with the discussion here! Thanks -- UKPhoenix79 05:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Burning Man Regional Events Infobox

I've started putting together an Infobox that can go on the Burning Man type events pages. When you have a few moments and can look at the example I've put together, I'd appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks, and Burn On! SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:07, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Green Tortoise

According to the history page, you are one of the editors who helped create the Green Tortoise article. Right now, somebody is trying to destroy your work. A self-indentified Green Tortoise employee signing in under the name "Here" has stated, on a page linked to from the Green Tortoise discussion page, that his employer "freaked out" about the article, feeling that while it was OK for some of the authors we cited to have written articles critical of his business, it was not OK for others to know about those articles or for us to tell people about them. On this basis "here" has demanded the right to remove links to any material critical of his employer, doing so in the name of NPOV!!!

How far has this gone? We've already seen pro-Green Tortoise graffiti posted to the references section, ad copy taken directly from their site used to overwrite the article, and the employee, in at least one case, create a sock puppet account (GTWebmaster) and then try to claim that somebody was supporting his position. He has threatened to file frivolous complaints against anybody refusing to go along with what he wants, as he engages in vandalism.

None of which probably sounds like anything you'd want to be around for, and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't, but it bothers you to see your work destroyed and replaced by ad copy posted by someody who has come out and said that he is a corporate shill, now is the time when I hope you will speak up. I hate to see companies find that they can turn Wikipedia into ad copy, in this case quite literally, but I can't fight this one alone. If you'd be willing to help, your help would be greatly appeciated and needed. One lone editor vs. an entire company is not a fair fight, and sooner or later you know that this guy will bring in his coworkers. -65