Talk:Martindale-Hubbell

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Recent edits[edit]

Many of the recent edits to this article have involved adding undue material. Presumably the company can afford their own website, and does not need to record such issues as the following (which I have moved here from the article, for discussion):

Marketing

In a TV commercial running on ESPN, Comedy Central, The History Channel and CNN, Lawyers.com features actress S. Epatha Merkerson, known for her role as NYPD Lt. Anita Van Buren on the TV crime drama Law & Order.

Awards and Milestones

Lawyers.com, Official Honoree, Webby Awards (2009).[ref]http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?media_id=96&category_id=39&season=13[/ref]
Lawyers.com iPhone application introduced (2010).[ref]http://www.deferolaw.com/forum/topics/martindales-lawyerscom-iphone[/ref]
Larry Bodine named Editor-in-Chief of Lawyers.com and Martindale.com (September, 2011).[ref]http://blog.martindale.com/larry-bodine-joins-lexisnexis[/ref]
EZLaw becomes available in Pennsylvania (April, 2011), Florida (August, 2011), Ohio and California (September, 2011).[ref]EZLaw Launch CA[/ref]
EZLaw publishes Wills & Estate Planning survey (2011).[ref]http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2011/08/09/nice-girls-talk-about-estate-planning/[/ref]

While the company may appreciate promotional links to youtube ads, that is not Wikpedia's role. Awards may be mentioned if they are significant, and blogs are not acceptable as references (WP:RS). An encyclopedic article definitely is not a place to comment on staffing changes.

A couple of minor issues: Wikipedia style is to use "Heading like this" (sentence case), not "Heading Like This". When a list of bulleted points is created (asterisk in first column), do not place a blank line between items because that breaks the list into multiple lists, each consisting of a single item. See WP:MOSHEAD and WP:LISTGAP. Johnuniq (talk) 02:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 18 March 2015[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved. EdJohnston (talk) 02:08, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell → Martindale-Hubbell – Martindale-Hubbell and LexisNexis are no longer associated with each other as per the joint venture with Internet Brands which was finalized in April 2014. Martindale is owned by Internet Brands. LexisNexis is owned by Reed Elsevier. They are two separate companies.[1] MH121Chanlon (talk) 15:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Excessive details removed[edit]

I have removed the recent good-faith addition of a large amount of excessive details about the published directories' internal structure. Wikipedia articles are supposed to provide a succinct encyclopedic overview of their respective topics. Secondary internal details should be avoided - unless they really add to an encyclopedic understanding of the topic (see also WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:NOTDIRECTORY for more information). Moving such extensive details into footnotes doesn't resolve this issue: while explanatory footnotes may include a bit of additional detail to help the reader's understanding with more background and context, references and footnotes are not exempt from basic content guidelines. Internal structural information and other primary details making up over 75 percent of the article's size are far too extensive - this information should be hosted in indexes and documentation on the company's own website. On another quick note, Wikipedia articles should not contain detailed contact information and phone numbers (and such details don't belong in citations aswell). I have also removed this added information. GermanJoe (talk) 19:58, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Guard against paid editors[edit]

Martindale-Hubble promoters have their hands all over this article. They include advertising copy as part of the title; in those days book covers included advertising blurbs for the book, but that was not really part of the title. No neutral editor would include so much crap in this article. Lots of the cited sources failed verification.—Finell 10:53, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]