Talk:Yamaha Artist Services

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Blatant advertising

The subject heading says it all. This is a corporate advertisment for Yamaha Artist Services, Inc., largely cribbed from its web sites, and not remotely an encyclopedia article. Voceditenore (talk) 22:08, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since the creator and chief contributor of the article has removed all the maintenance tags without remedying the problems, I will record the problems here:

‹ The template below (Promotional) is being considered for merging. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. ›

The tone of this article reads like a brochure or press release for the company. Examples:

"A premiere venue for outstanding performance and pedagogy, the facility has hosted exceptional events of musical depth found nowhere else in New York."

"The facility is becoming a leading investor in the future of classical music by providing superior pianos and high-quality performance, rehearsal and recording facilities to a continually growing number of young artists..."

"Beyond its collection of meticulously-maintained CFIIIS concert grand pianos, a fleet of [Disklavier] performance-reproducing pianos are available for a variety of innovative applications, including distance learning and collaboration, composing, recording, teaching, practice and performance."

This article has no reliable, sources, independent of its subject. Until they are provided, and it should very easy to do, given the claims being made, the article remains unencylopedic. It stands out a mile to any neutral observer as a piece of coporate PR inserted into Wikipedia, regardless of whether it was intentional. The tone and lack of referencing from neutral reliable sources actually does the company a great disservice. Voceditenore (talk) 06:14, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]