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Talk about information vomit. QUOTE Comcast will not broadcast the Tampa Bay Rays baseball games on the Sun Sports network in SE Florida. They do broadcast the games in the SW Florida area, also in Tallahassee and Jacksonville. I thought this was an "encyclopedia", and thus the aim is to convey the important accumulated knowledge about the subject. I suppose I'm not allowed to edit the Comcast article in Wikipedia, right?
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 30th June 2009, 8:46pm) Talk about information vomit. QUOTE Comcast will not broadcast the Tampa Bay Rays baseball games on the Sun Sports network in SE Florida. They do broadcast the games in the SW Florida area, also in Tallahassee and Jacksonville. I thought this was an "encyclopedia", and thus the aim is to convey the important accumulated knowledge about the subject. I suppose I'm not allowed to edit the Comcast article in Wikipedia, right? If you ask nicely, I am prepared to ban you from any and all Hicksville articles. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/evilgrin.gif)
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QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 30th June 2009, 4:36pm) Otherwise it's just angry customers using WP to "stick it to the man"...
Somey, about 60% of the article text falls under the "Controversies" heading. In contrast, Halliburton doesn't even have such a heading. This is NPOV at work, though, Jimmy Wales assures me. Then again, Comcast is in no way affiliated with this Wikipedia biography, the way Halliburton is. Then, you've also got a rural guy sending Comcast a message on the Talk page, as if it's some kind of corporate Suggestion Box. ...sigh...
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 30th June 2009, 8:57pm) QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 30th June 2009, 4:36pm) Otherwise it's just angry customers using WP to "stick it to the man"...
Somey, about 60% of the article text falls under the "Controversies" heading. In contrast, Halliburton doesn't even have such a heading. This is NPOV at work, though, Jimmy Wales assures me. Then again, Comcast is in no way affiliated with this Wikipedia biography, the way Halliburton is. Then, you've also got a rural guy sending Comcast a message on the Talk page, as if it's some kind of corporate Suggestion Box. ...sigh... Don't mess with broadcasting articles unless you may an infinite amount of patience. They seem to attract a large number of "special" editors.
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When Angela Beesley created the Wikipedia article about Comcast in 2003, the Comcast website timeline stated: QUOTE 1969
* Company renamed Comcast Corporation from American Cable Systems and incorporated in Pennsylvania. Angela the worker bee chewed this up and spit it back out in GFDL form, as follows: QUOTE The company was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1969, under the name Comcast Corporation from American Cable Systems. This botched interpretation has held steady in the article about Comcast for more than six years, and it has been repeated all over the web, at least 53 times. Tonight, I broke the Conflict of Interest rule and fixed the error, mainly because the previous editor Jerzy's indignant edit summary ( "It unquestionably *is* a shortening of the previous name of the same thing; they can *explain* their intention in not dumping the name as they please") got under my skin. Wikipedia will never be a reputable reference resource for business matters, until they welcome businesses to assist with article development and maintenance.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 24th September 2009, 3:34am) When Angela Beesley created the Wikipedia article about Comcast in 2003, the Comcast website timeline stated: QUOTE 1969
* Company renamed Comcast Corporation from American Cable Systems and incorporated in Pennsylvania. Angela the worker bee chewed this up and spit it back out in GFDL form, as follows: QUOTE The company was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1969, under the name Comcast Corporation from American Cable Systems. This botched interpretation has held steady in the article about Comcast for more than six years, and it has been repeated all over the web, at least 53 times. Tonight, I broke the Conflict of Interest rule and fixed the error, mainly because the previous editor Jerzy's indignant edit summary ( "It unquestionably *is* a shortening of the previous name of the same thing; they can *explain* their intention in not dumping the name as they please") got under my skin. Wikipedia will never be a reputable reference resource for business matters, until they welcome businesses to assist with article development and maintenance. Greg, tiny pro-tip on making the ref easier to read [1]
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 28th December 2009, 11:10am) Every day, it becomes more clear to me that Wikipedia would be better served on its articles about corporations if the corporate communications staff were more fully integrated into the process of article construction. A policy for disclosed COI and monitored/restricted editing would be far more effective than our current don't ask/don't tell policy in which all you have to do is assert you don't have a COI and then claim that any attempt to show you actually do have one is "outing"... COI isn't a bad thing in and of itself, if it's disclosed and known in advance. I for one would LOVE to see the Comcast PR department on the Comcast talk page (they might get an earful from time to time but yes)... WP corporate articles are one of the weakest areas of the project (other than BLPs) which is not too surprising when you consider the demographics of the editor population... many folk pretty anti-corporate and many of the rest pretty uninterested in the topic area. It's a hard area to do well. Especially when you can't use certain classes of references.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 27th December 2011, 5:35pm) Since at least November 2009, Comcast has been the third-largest home telephone provider in the United States ( reliable source). Wikipedia still has Comcast as the " fourth-largest", so they're only 25 months out of touch with reality. So much for WP being more up to date than the real encyclopedias? BTW Greg: maybe pass a note to the guys upstairs that when somebody calls about a problem for the third time, maybe not such a good idea to end the call with yet another pitch for the phone service. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/dry.gif)
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