Talk:Press-A-Print

I am pretty new to the whole Wikipedia thing, but I'm not sure why this article is being marked for deletion. I am a contractor and worked with this company on a few occasions and I thought it was difficult to find information on a company of this size. I thought it was an excellent subject for an encyclopedic article, as it is the largest company in its industry. I thought that it was written from a pretty neutral point of view, and I used third party sources and cited them (it too a long time to find them too). What can I do to improve this so it is not deleted? I don't want the first article I create to go down a a failure. (Itcousin (talk) 20:34, 23 January 2009 (UTC))

Seems to me that Press-A-Print's page is nothing more than a self promotion and, as it appears that someone is blocking additional edits, it should be deleted from the system. I continue to attempt to post a list of relevant competitors to Press-A-Print in the specialty printing industry, yet continue to see my revisions deleted by users unknown to me. This would appear to be a deliberate attempt to protect the listing on behalf of Press-A-Print, and therefore is not a relevant information page, but an advertisement. Anyone care to advise? MountainEarth (talk) 04:58, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I reverted your addition of external links because they failed our guidelines on external links. Here on Wikipedia we try not to link externally to different competitors. For example, we don't link to Apple's website from the Microsoft article and vice versa. Doing so could easily be gamed for promotional purposes. Adding all of a companies competitors is not neutral point of view. If a competitor needs to be mentioned as part of an encyclopedic analysis of a company, than it should be done; but the competitor still shouldn't be linked-to externally as a means of promotion. ThemFromSpace 05:09, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

There is not much about this company out there on the internet and the wiki page is a valuable resource. Now that I know some more about this company, I have tried to add to this article. It can be said that any article about a company can sound like a promotion but all this article is saying is what the company is and what it sells. There are no testimonies, catch phases, or other such sales gimmicks like you would see on the company's own web site. I believe this article to be a great resource and, while it needs some work, is valuable part of Wikipedia. Cavebear42 (talk) 01:22, 25 August 2010 (UTC)