Talk:Certified Internet Web Professional

This article seems to be teetering very close to an advertisement for a commercial CIW program. I struck about half the article because it was a direct copyright violation; the remainder should likely be gone over closely. —C.Fred (talk) 23:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I added a POV tag as I agree that this article is basically an ad for the company. --65.6.10.240 (talk) 14:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.99.136.154 (talk) 12:19, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Agreed ... it's (mostly) an ad!

Having come across this CIW article (to find out what the heck a CIW is), I thought it so much an ad I looked for a link to click to report it as such. Not seeing such, I came to this talk page, to see my impression so mirrored. Which is to say ... my impression was strong enough to motivate me to look for ways to do something about it. (And got here.)

It may well be tagged POV, but I didn't notice any such. i.e. To all appearances, this is a 'genuine' and 'authoritative' wikip article. Perhaps something more blatant could be done to the article.

In particular:

- "to become the world's largest Web education certification program." - authoritative reference / basis for statement?

- "Universities, community colleges and secondary schools from North America to EMEA, Japan and China currently use CIW." - same. One example ([5]) does not a statement confirm.

= or ... the implication is that many find them useful / authoritative / of high quality, while no basis is given for the implication. (vs ... 'cause there's nothing else out there.) [Not saying that's true, I don't know, but no reason is given to believe otherwise.]

- "the most popular is Master CIW Designer" - basis for statment?

Having said this, I appreciate the article, -something-, being here. It does, for example, let me know to go over to CompTIA to vet further. Which is something, and better than nothing. The reference to CompTIA is in fact the only hint that somebody ('trusted') objectively finds CIW has any value at all. With the reference, I may go to CompTIA and check further. Without that (such a) reference I would have dismissed CIW entirely at this point.

BS (talk) 01:52, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

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