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This page was proposed for deletion by Closeapple (talk · contribs) on 7 November 2009 with the comment:
One of lots of streaming sites; no assertion of notability beyond being owned by a "billionaire actor"
It was contested by Fences and windows (talk · contribs) on 14 November 2009 with the comment:
Has received plenty of press coverage over time

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Neutral point of view[edit]

Is it me or does this page look like one big advert for FilmOn as a lot of the editing has been done by Alki David the owner of FilmOn and hardly falls within Wikipedia's Neutral point of view

Anyone else got any views on this? Maybe this page should be strictly reviewed as to edits made from person's who appear to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Stevewake1962 (talk) 13:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, unfortunately this is similar with many Wiki pages of companies... what can be done? 84.132.113.217 (talk) 22:01, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For the reasons above, I nominated this article for NPOV check. As it stands now, it is unacceptable. It should either be heavily cleaned up to pare it down to the aspects of the topic that are actually encyclopedic, or deleted altogether. Acjohnson55 (talk) 19:51, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the NPOV tag after I gave it a major cleanup. Most of the unsourced edits were made in May 2012. Hopefully, it will stay clean with sourced edits. Mca2001 (talk) 02:07, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, that is all fine, but don't you think because of our conflict of interest guideline and our business FAQ this article should be protected seeing as there are already several socks here trying to own the article. Please discuss here. Stevewake1962 (talk) 19:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the edits by Alki David the owner of FilmOn and this page should be protected now as this guy keeps editing his own company's page. If anyone knows how to report this and protect this page could they do it right away please.Implyme (talk) 22:47, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dog training psychology[edit]

Watching every step of growing healthy behaviour dog with failures 136.52.36.78 (talk) 07:24, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tag[edit]

Jack the Editor here - looks like the COI tag is stale w/no talk page explanation, so it could be removed just for that, but wasn't hard to guess the problem material (diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5, diff 6, diff 7, etc.)

Most of the iffy edits and attempted whitewashing were already reverted (diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5, diff 6, diff 7, diff 8, diff 9, diff 10, diff 11, diff 12, diff 13, diff 14), so I copyedited the scraps of content left that still looked iffy.

The "Legal issues" section had already been given a cleanup for COI in 2016 (diff), so I left the wording alone and just updated. Also filled in some gaps (missing lawsuits etc) in the timeline for balance. 50.213.117.113 (talk) 14:37, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lawsuits and splitting[edit]

Jack the Editor, back to try and address that update. Hooboy, lot more controversies and lawsuits than I expected. The major lawsuits with the broadcasting giants were described in multiple sources as influential on the media industry in the US at large, similar to American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. v. Aereo, Inc., so it looks like the perfect candidate for a split. It does get confusing since there are multiple lawsuits settlements and appeals, and making sense of all that in this location clogs the page; it would be smoother to have the minute details (judges, etc) on the side page, and the major quotes and judgements worked into the FilmOn history section, in my opinion. 50.213.117.113 (talk) 02:07, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]