Talk:Blick Art Materials/Archives/2016/November

Finding reliable, independent, third party sources
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Using only the first two links I was able to find 8 potential sources (including 2 from the Chicago Tribune), and used 5 of those sources to add references to the existing article. Two of the sources I used (Bloomberg's and AdWeek) are not as reliably neutral as I would like because they typically post PR releases, but it's okay to use them for non-controversial facts about the company, like the founder's name, the CEO, dates of acquisitions, etc.

Here are 3 sources not used, yet, that may have useful information to include, in addition to additional info from the ones already cited in the article:


 * Growing Arts and Crafts Market, Chicago Tribune


 * Bargain Hunter: New discount program at Blick Art Materials, LA Daily News


 * Blick Art Materials Scholarship Fund (Portland State University)

There may be more newspaper articles farther down the page on the search engines, as I only looked at the first few pages of listings. If you are willing to do the research to find more sources, I am willing to help with drafting suitable encyclopedic language.

For further article development, I'd suggest keeping it simple to start.See the structure of this article I created a few years ago using the Articles for Creation process. It took a few tries to hit the right balance of non-promtional tone with a neutral viewpoint. This is another article in which I assisted an editor with a Conflict of Interest (COI), like yourself.

Because you work for the company, please do post a COI statement on your user page, and here on the talk page.

Please also post suggested edits on this talk page, and either I or another editor respond within a day or two.

Have a great Thanksgiving! — Grand&#39;mere Eugene (talk) 03:20, 24 November 2016 (UTC)