User talk:Lawrencemj

A tag has been placed on International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Steve _(Stephen)^talk 03:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management

The phrase " a world-leading publisher of management journals and databases" , which you have since removed. Furthermore: "a leading journal in its field" is POV, "one of 9 Logistics and Operations Management titles published by Emerald" is not relevant to the article, and "These journals will publish 66 issues and over 400 articles in 2007" is crystal ball gazing. I would be more than happy to clarify my position on this if you like - Tiswas^(t/c) 12:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. I've referenced the POV. I'd contend that the 2nd point adds context, and the 3rd doesn't constitute crystal ball gazing since this publishing process is a guarantee. (It's actually 402 articles minimum.) Any good? Lawrencemj 13:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who publishes the Transportation Journal, incidentally? "The International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM) is one of 9 Logistics and Operations Management titles published by Emerald" still adds nothing to the piece - the context is already established, in that it is a logistics journal - the publisher's other business ventures offer little relevance. A citation for the projected number of publications per year would remove any ambiguity, regarding crystal ball gazing. - Tiswas^(t/c) 14:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. As a Google search will tell you, the Transportation Journal is published by the American Society of Transportation and Logistics, Inc., in Washington DC. The citation will follow. We'll have to agree to disagree on the other. Lawrencemj 14:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Above issues corrected. Lawrencemj 11:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]