Talk:ProFlowers

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Whoever is writing this article is obviously looking to use Wikipedia to advertise their company, probably in conjunction with an SEO campaign.

Note: "Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Promotional articles about yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles created as part of a marketing or promotional campaign, may be deleted in accordance with our deletion policies."

Words like "fresh high-quality products", the "Brands" section, and the entire paragraph about "fresh cut flowers for everyday and special occasions such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthday and anniversary events" has no place on Wikipedia. Also, is there really a need for all those external links?

The community should decide whether this is a NN company or not--but please, get rid of the sales pitch!

[edit] Remove External Links Section

Dan 20:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC) I think that all the external links should be removed. The link to the ProFlowers site is already within the profile; there is a seperate page for Liberty Media, and the video of boxed flowers doesn't pertain to the article and is not referenced in the article.

[edit] ProFlowers video

Someone should really investigate what kind of pressure ProFlowers/Liberty Media put on the Bloomery Florist in Butler, PA to remove a video ad that demonstrated an actual example of receiving frozen ProFlowers flowers in the winter. In the matter of two days, the video was removed from YouTube and the reference was expunged from Wikipedia. I can only imagine the threats the Liberty Media legal department put on that little independent florist that put that video up. I smell a complete abuse of power and perhaps a violation of that florist's freedom of speech, but of course, I can't put that on the main entry. Still, it galls me enough to put it here. Signing as anonymous because I don't want them coming after me too! 166.217.217.251 (talk) 01:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)