Talk:Belfort Instrument Company

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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... as the article mentions, it is notable for the DigiWx Automated Weather System. I'll try and find a few more references. --Legoktm (talk) 17:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The NOAA contract establishes notability. Legoktm (talk) 17:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Contested Editing

Legoktm is a biased person who should not be allowed to edit this page anymore since he keeps deleting these indisputable facts:

Belfort Instrument Company executives write that the Belfort/Friez company provided wind sensors to the Wright Brothers even though the Wright Brothers wrote about using a Richards anemometer instead on December 17, 1903. There are no historical archives anywhere to back up this bold company assertion. It is nothing more than company propaganda designed to bring in sales.

Here's the references you need to document this company bunk:

Read the company website at: http://www.belfortinstrument.com/about-belfort/belforts-history

The company website says: "From providing wind sensors to the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, NC....."

Now go read: http://airandspace.si.edu/wrightbrothers/classroomActivities/8-12_excerpt.html

"We had a "Richard" hand anemometer with which we measured the velocity of the wind. Measurements made just before starting the first flight showed velocities of 11 to 12 meters per second, or 24 to 27 miles per hour. Measurements made just before the last flight gave between 9 and 10 meters per second. One made just after showed a little over 8 meters. The records of the Government Weather Bureau at Kitty Hawk gave the velocity of the wind between the hours of 10:30 and 12 o'clock, the time during which the four flights were made, as averaging 27 miles at the time of the first flight and 24 miles at the time of the last."

The Wright Brothers never used a freaking thing from Friez or Belfort or DigiWx PERIOD!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.244.112.193 (talk) 22:17, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Wright Brothers claim was not mentioned in the article, until an IP deliberately inserted it. As the claim is contested Wikipedia would not include it, without further credible supporting evidence. Wikipedia does not allow unsubstantiated claims,

especially those that would questions companies and individual professional standing, without being very sure the allegations could be proved. The claim you are making is that the company is lying in it's advertising, Where's the court transcript that shows that they have been investigated for this false advertising? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:47, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Sfan...there is nothing wrong with the article written as is...I would reccomend reading WP:NPOV and WP:AGF. Also we do not censor the articles based on which nations may or may not support terror, not our jobs and certainly not a aim of wikipedia to censor the world to one point of view. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 15:21, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hell in a basket, thanks for the cleanup, Do you know of credible sources about BIC that aren't internal corporate ones?

For a company in aviation, there must be trade journals that could be referenced? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:10, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Speedy Deletion

As noted previously: This article may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as an article about a company, corporation, organization, or group that does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject.

Belfort Instrument Company (dba Belfort Instruments, DigiWx AWOS, Gamma Scientific, UDT Instruments, Advanced Retro, RoadVista, KR Acquisition Corporation, Utilipoint International, Quick Strategy, Scientech) has already sold the weather station product named DigiWx to at least one nation (eg. Pakistan) which harbors known terrorists like Osama bin Laden. You can find reference of this DigiWx weather station (Lahore, Pakistan) at: http://www.digiwx.com/content/installations.cfm

Wonder if you Wikipedia figureheads will be fair and honest and include note of these references in any further edits about the Belfort Instrument Company?

Why on earth would you Wikipedia figureheads allow this conniving company to aid in the hijack of the Wright Brothers' history?

Finally, DigiWx is notable alright; notable for all the wrong reasons! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.244.112.193 (talk) 22:33, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For a company whose major product line is meteorological instrumentation, I don't find it at all surprising that a national level airport would have a contract with them. Pakistan is not currently embargoed by the US, so again I would not be unexpected for a US organisation to trade with an airport there. You seem to be trying to state that because of allegations of Pakistan's alleged involvement with 'terrorism' (itself a controversial subject) that ANY company trading with Pakistan is additionaly supsect, without presenting credible sources. You have presented no evidence that the Avation authorities in Pakistan or indeed Lahore Airport have direct 'terrorism' links, or indeed any evidence of concerns about "diversion" of technology. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:28, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]