Talk:International Aging Research Portfolio

Advertising tag

I agree with the comment by Sequencepro, but I also think that the language is excessively self-promotional rather than objectively descriptive, such as: "Grant information, is rarely accessible to search engines, but is very important for research planning purposes. It may take years for a grant to result in a publication and to prevent redundancy and promote scientific cooperation it is important to browse through all available grant information worldwide to see if there are similar projects being funded." I will contact the author of this piece and ask for modification. --Ben Best (talk) 13:28, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ben Best, I rewrote the article to ensure that promotional tone is no longer present. The article is based on a peer-reviewed publication in PLoS One and the system is a non-profit international volunteer effort for tracking science funding and classifying aging research.

I am affiliated with the project and would like to ask for another independent review before removing the advertising tag. Dnamo (talk) 10:41, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As noted in my edit, I have removed the "advertising" tag along with the "Recognition" section, and toned-down the language a bit more from what was done by Dnamo. The "Recognition" section might be appropriate in other contexts, but not in association with such a seemingly self-promotional article. A "Criticisms" section is typical to give more balance, but I don't know enough about the system to write one. If this page is tagged with "advertising" without comment again, I will call that "drive-by tagging", will revert it, and will challenge the tagger to justify and argue for the tag here on the TALK page (assuming I notice the change). --Ben Best (talk) 13:35, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]