User talk:Mpbalogh

History of Market Research in Australia

My concerns about the page are twofold:

1. The article is unbalanced: Although the article purports to be about the industry in Australia, only one paragraph out the total five are actually concerned with Australian events, organisations and people. The bulk of it is concerned with the rise of social research in Britain. Topics that many users would find relevant, interesting or helpful such as the rise of the organised arm of the Australian profession have not been canvassed at all. These are serious omissions for any general history of market research in Australia. I have already made this, and other relevant comments, on the article's talk page.

2. Potential Copyright Violation: The article bears more than a passing similarity to an article published on the AMRS website. As such, the article may be in breach of copyright provisions. This needs to be investigated by an adiminstrator and I await their determination.

In addition, I have no knowledge of the obituary to which you refer. If a different editor has nominated the obituary for deletion, they will have provided reasons, and that matter will also be investigated. Editors can only nominate or suggest articles for deletion. Editors do not make final decisions. A final determination will be made by administrators, who will take into consideration all the available evidence.

BronHiggs (talk) 08:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Copy of Comments Posted on Administrator's Page

The following is a copy of my comments posted on the Administrator's Page where you made a complaint about me. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Fake_Editor_BronHiggs_actually_targeting_people_and_organisations

In addition to my comments on the Talk page of the article 'History of Australian Marketing Research' could it please be taken into consideration that the editor who created this page, a person by the name of Kymmarie (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kymmarie), created or substantially contributed to a number of other pages featuring the McNair Ingenuity company and/or the McNair family between 2008 and 2009. These pages include, but are not confined to: Ian McNair [bio]; Mc Nair Gallup Poll, McNair Ingenuity Research [company], Psepholograph [an instrument used in market research that appears to have been developed by McNair], as well as a number of other pages dedicated to reporting the results of specific polls such as Recycle Our Water McNair, Happiness Index, Energy Sources McNair Gallup Poll and Nuclear Power Plants McNair Gallup Poll. (Pages dedicated to specific poll results have all since been deleted). The editor, Kymmarie does not appear to have engaged in any editing unless it involves the McNair family. The editor concerned has been provided with repeated warnings about posting content that is promotional in character, that fails to maintain a neutral point of view or that has no real claim to notability. However, my recommendation for deletion of the article was not based on this history. Instead it was primarily based on two issues: (1) The content was substantially based on material copied from a page on the AMRS website (see https://www.amsrs.com.au/about/history-of-market-research-in-australia) with a 96% similarity score on the Copyright Violation report and (2) Only one paragraph out of a total of five paragraphs that made up the article was actually concerned with Australia - the rest of it was a highly selective history of social research in England. Of those three sentences, two were principally concerned with the market research company that became known as McNair or McNair-Ingenuity. I questioned whether Wikipedia needed a new article on Australian market research history when just three of its sentences actually focussed on the Australian experience. BronHiggs (talk) 17:50, 20 November 2016 (UTC) BronHiggs (talk) 19:13, 22 November 2016 (UTC)