Talk:Pobjoy Mint

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Copyright

Resolved

– Copyvio material restored with proper permission, but with cleanup (needs more).

The information previously entered under Pobjoy Mint by myself is copyrighted by Pobjoy Mint as are the images of the coins. I am happy for the information and pictures to be released under GFDL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.34.211 (talk) 19:06, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As mentioned above, the information previously entered under Pobjoy Mint by myself (employee of Pobjoy Mint) is copyrighted by Pobjoy Mint as are the images of the coins. I am happy for the information and pictures to be released under GFDL.

I will be sending an email to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org permitting re-use under the GFDL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KathrynER (talk • contribs) 19:12, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Per my discussions with this user via email, I believe the author owns any copyrighted info here. Please do not delete without contacting the user by email. Thanks. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright isn't the real issue here, but blatant advertising. The content's been cleaned a lot but is still problematic, even after I just worked it over further. The main issue is that there are no or few sources for anything in this article, just the company's own marketing materials. It's not that we don't have permission to use them, it's that we cannot rely on them, per WP:RS and WP:COI. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 17:58, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Additions to the country list.

Stale

– No source provided in over 2.5 years.

The Pobjoy Mint has also struck coins on behalf of the British Indian Ocean Territory, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Isle of Wight, Pitcairn Islands, the Shetland Islands and South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. - (203.211.70.190 (talk) 00:45, 12 September 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Virenium

Resolved

– Blatant false claim removed.

Virenium is not a precious metal. It is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc worth little more than toenail clippings.^[1] ^[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stanislao Avogadro (talk • contribs) 03:17, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Same remark: not precious. --GaAs (d) 04:42, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Removed per WP:BOLLOCKS, WP:V and WP:RS. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 17:58, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Holographic" coin nonsense

Resolved

– Blatant false claim removed.

There's a seemingly ridiculous claim in the article that Popby has produced holographic coins, with no reliable source. I've flagged this as {{dubious}}, because confusing "an unusual colour effect" with a holograph or hologram is farcically ignorant at best and intentionally misleading at worst. Actually, it's bad enough that I'm just going to delete it per WP:BOLLOCKS and WP:HOAX. As WP:V says, any extraordinary claim requires extraordinarily good sourcing. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 17:58, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

A regular anonymous editor of this article, 195.74.153.242 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), clearly has a close connection to the company and has repeated directly plagiarized from Pobjoy's "About" page to insert blatant marketing into the article. This piece needs to be watched like a hawk for further violations of WP:NPOV, WP:RS, WP:SPAM, WP:COI, WP:PEACOCK, etc. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 17:58, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Virenium

[2] ttp://www.gizmology.net/metals.htm

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