Talk:Reverse telephone directory

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The neutrality of this page and related phone and people lookup topical pages is in serious question.

Obviously, the viewer can easily see the page is promoting a commerical service by the name of ANYWHO.

Repeated attempts to edit the REVERSE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY page to ensure neutrality have been spurned and thawrted by Wiki.

Which begs the question of potential financial renumeration or at least commercial bias of those in control of Wiki editing? What other motivatons can there be since there are many such companies offering equally quality services? Why limit the external listing to just one company?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.131.160.80 (talk • contribs) 13:55, 5 June 2007

I agree! The person controlling this page is a control freak who will not allow others to add appropriate content and links! The perosn must have a financial relationship with ANYWHO! There are many much better services than that one anyway!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.131.160.80 (talk • contribs) 13:24, 5 June 2007

Greetings. Thank you for starting a discussion. Please respond to my objection, that the site, http://www.phoneaddressdirectory.com that 71.54.161.157 has repeatedly added to several pages, is a subscription-only site which is, per Wikipedia's external links policy, "of limited use to most readers." I object strongly to replacing a link to a free website with one to a subscription-only site. Would you like to add any free links? Whosasking 20:37, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I will disaggree with your assertion the site located at http://www.phoneaddressdirectory.com is a fee only service. Having just visited that site myself and looked around, I found several FREE sources of information and searches there, all better than Anywho, IMHO. Apparently, you have not done your homework. So I must side with the previous writer that you probably have a financial stake in listing only one reference site. Otherwise, there would already be other sites listed by now. You doeth protest too much sir/madame.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.52.28.249 (talk • contribs) 23:58, 11 June 2007

All but one of the links from the reverse phone lookup page at reversephonedirectory.com point to intelius, a provider of directory-type services, some of which are free. Reverse phone directory lookups are not among their free services.

Just for kicks, Alexa rankings of Whitepages.com: 913. Infospace.com: 3,267. Intelius.com: 3,787. AnyWho.com: 6,309. Addresses.com: 8,816. reversephonedirectory.com: 34,189. In light of this, I've removed the link to AnyWho.com. Whosasking 03:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)