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This article was nominated for deletion on 24/7/2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

I felt the article read too much like an advertisement. I cut it down. Feel free to add more, without making it sound like an ad. BrokenSegue 03:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh yes, I tried to clean it up a bunch. Seems a lot less like an advertisement now. Things like being 'waterproof' really made it sound too ad-like, and I removed or rephrased things like that. Was pretty much an in-place rewrite. Kevin_b_er 23:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

Took this from the main article

\Don't delete this.  It is an objective statement

and allows the reader to have another resource for info on the company and its service.

 I am a consumer and the controversy over the company

is important to my decision about buying its service. BUT the controversy is not referred to in the Wikipedia article, so should not irritate the company.

 Sharon Hewitt

Spartaz 16:54, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rebuttal about the Added Link for Life Alert Complaints

Why should this company (Life Alert) be singled out for complaints? Why are there not complaints links on many other Wiki pages - or, to be fair, for every major company -- hundreds of companies have complaints lodged against them. I thought Wikipedia articles are about the facts about a company, not hearsay and opinions.

Also, I respectfully ask: how do we know that you (or the person who added the complaints link) are really are a consumer and not, hypothetically, someone from Life Alert's competition? Third, why should there be a complaints link here, yet nothing analogous on the Lifeline wiki page - since Lifeline is a direct competitor of Life Alert's?

I think either all major companies on Wikipedia should have complaint links on them, or none should. That would seem to be the two fair scenarios.

Finally, I know of no "controversy" over the Life Alert service; what are your sources? If one person puts up a website about complaints, who says that person is an authority, and that his/her sources are all valid?

In short, this all seems very subjective and out of line for what Wikipedia is about. To the editors who make final decisions, I vote for omitting the Complaints link --- who decides these matters? Please advise. Thank you.

Don Rose (son of a Life Alert user who swears by it)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ddrose (talk • contribs).

The removal of the link has been reverted several times so there appears to be a consensus of some kind that it should be there. To my mind the article is something of an advert and a contrary link is a good way of balancing the article to be NPOV. --Spartaz 09:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)