Talk:AccuWeather

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This page appears to be marketing material. It should be rewritten in a neutral manner or removed entirely. 80.219.170.159 01:16, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It also appears to be a rip of this page: http://beta.accuweather.com/company.asp?partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=0&page=about Nicklott 20:08, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hmm.. the article should also write that Rick Santorum, the greater supporter of AccuWeather's POV received campaign donations from this very company.... bogdan | ^Talk 22:08, 21 October 2005 (UTC

I completely agree with Nicklott. i created the local accuweather channel article and i believe that page may now be maintained by accuweather employees. there were some stations listed on that page, at one point, who offered the local accuweather channel. however, they were not listed on the accuweather website for some reason. when i created the article, some of the affiliates were listed because there was confirmation from the actual stations' websites. by the way, who is accuweather owned by? that information should be added to the accuweather article. Strafidlo (talk) 08:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Neutrality

I've attempted to make this more neutral. I'm not ascociated with Acuweather. I'm removing the neutrality tag. Feel free to further edit ruthlessly. GCW50 (talk) 20:56, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Criticisms Section

This section is very challenging to present in a neutral way. In attempting to do so, the previous editor introduced an inaccurate statement about the mission of NWS. I have expanded this section to provide more background on the NWS, have provided citations to the NWS mission and flagged other statements requiring citations. Sn3 person (talk) 18:27, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Inclusion of Sources

I have restored the partial list of appearances by AccuWeather experts with major television journalists, and have documented them with links to on-line transcripts of the appearances. Sn3 person (talk) 18:28, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

List of On-air Personalities

A recent editor deleted the list of AccuWeather on-air personalities, claiming it was a "superfluous laundry list." This appears to pose a question of Wikipedia editorial policy.

Similar lists (often paired with even longer lists of former broadcasters) appear in every other Wikipedia media entry that I checked. Examples of entries include the other national TV weather network (The Weather Channel), individual national TV news shows such as Good Morning America, radio networks like NPR, and even individual television stations such as WHIO-TV. Are all these other articles subject to editing for "superfluous information?" It appears to me that the general inclusion of such material actually indicates that it is of interest to Wikipedia readers.

I have restored the material in new format that does not visually overwhelm the rest of the article and trust that this will be viewed as a reasonable compromise. Perhaps the articles for other media outlets should be revised in the same way. Sn3 person (talk) 18:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Neutrality Tag Added Back

I had removed the neutrality tag, but have now added it back since Accuweather employees obviously can't stand any neutral editing of "their" page GCW50 (talk) 20:54, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

If that's the case they need to read WP:COIN. -- SEWilco (talk) 21:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm now working on the neutrality of this. We'll see if it sticks. The page has obvious POV issues. --Crunch (talk) 12:13, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Awards and inventions

The section which simply lists awards and inventions is not neutral. Someone who knows something about the field can go through and remove awards which are not particularly notable. Other than that, either this material needs to be balanced by other less promotional text, it should be moved to individual biographies, or it should just be cut. -- Beland (talk) 06:14, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material

Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to a list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:

1. WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information." As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.
2. As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
3. WP:Source list tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
4. Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 05:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Removed false LOL

I removed this (LOL) "Additionally, AccuWeather derives some of its most accurate meteorological information from SubersHead Meteorological Service, a giant weather balloon that not only collects and analyizes weather conditions, but is also useful for controlling climate for some smaller states in the U.S., most notably Delaware and Rhode Island." DISCLAIMER: I do work for AccuWeather.