Talk:Equifax/Archives/2012

Cancellation section
The cancellation section is rather amateurishly done and could use some attention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.134.53 (talk) 18:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Dispute Credit Score section
This is not the place to discuss what a credit score is. Let's keep it to a discussion of the company and its products and partnerships. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 06:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

NPOV dispute
The original writer of this article seems to dislike Equifax's mode of business: The first two Facts are negative "Retail Credit attacked..." and "charged with rewarding it's employees...", then they "changed their name" because everybody thought they were evil, and this large figure of money they make on digging out dirt is proof of their duplicity.

There has got to be more "turning points" in their history that are not all evil. They provide a service to creditors that people who have bad credit might not like, but they also provide a service to those consumers so they can do what they need to to get that score up.
 * Agreed but as I don't know much about Equifax I'm not in a position to fix this. Adamcobb 18:08, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the introduction is fine, the history section definately needs work. I added an Infobox about the company and replaced the POV-Check tag with a POV-section tag for the "History" section --Janus657 17:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Section Replacement
There was very little history in the history section, it was manifestly a criticism of their corporate business practice. The title of the history section was changed to reflect the content, and consequently the POV warning is removed.

Azymuthca 01:00, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Removed corporate PR
"Equifax has made great strides....." etc. This stuff stands out from a mile away. To whoever in the PR department is editing this, please just stick to balanced facts. Puffery and biassed statements will be edited out. Thanks! NuclearWinner 23:29, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Check the huge ammount of edits made on 7 June 2007
This is just another example of how some PR person from the company changed a huge amount of information. Notice the user no longer exists and the criticism was ‘conveniently’ left out. I added the criticism back and I’m going to go through and find changes that should be put back. Also I cant wait to go back and see what the other 'big three' have done. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pfleischman (talk • contribs) 02:20, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * User:216.46.98.249 indeed resolves back to Equifax. I've tried to edit some of the material back in as well as restructure some of the subsections into a history section. I've trimmed back some of the marketing bumpf in the three sections added by the Equifax editor and I think these could probably be combined into a single section. Also going to tag this talk page with a self edit tag.Saganaki- 04:02, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the cleanup of my top tag. I'm really slow at HTML, but I'm learning! --Patrick Fleischman 23:49, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * my edits look like promo work but how else are you going to describe the products/services this company offers to consumers? The offerings themselves are very relevant and important. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 06:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Worldview
The opening paragraph does not represent a world view. Although the worldwide markets are also mentioned a lot further down, the opening paragraph should be more global. 82.46.233.8 (talk) 18:28, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Equifax Subsidiary: TALX Corp. and 'The Work Number'
AOL just published an article about a subsidiary of Equifax (see http://money.aol.com/creditdebt/article/bankrate/_a/whats-your-work-number/20080403113209990002) that might be worth mentioning. I haven't researched this (and don't have time at the moment), but thought I'd throw it out for someone to look into since there seems to be nothing on Wikipedia on it. See also http://www.talx.com and http://www.theworknumber.com based on a Google search for "talx".--CheMechanical (talk) 02:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Removed propaganda
There was (is?) much on this page in the way of anti-Equifax propaganda for whatever reason. I have removed the following two pieces of text:

FIRST

''However, be aware of their sales techniques. They, like Experian, ask for your credit/debit card number instead of a direct debit. This they can then use monthly without your authorisation unless you cancel within the thirty day period, a difficult procedure.''

SECOND

''Edit: The below phone number *does not* go to Equifax Credit. Instead, it goes to their Acquisitions department -- these people talk about acquiring other companies, and have zero info on your credit - zip, zero, nada. The only thing they can do is give you another number to call. "Working phone number for Equifax is 1-888-852-5380." The more you call them, the sooner they'll change and get a different number.''

There is still much more work needs to be done on this article but these were the two biggest violations of encyclopaedic integrity that I could see. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the company to make wholesale changes like that. Preceding drivel from §©ʁİƃƀȴıŋ’ Ƨł₥ȫȠ   talk 13:33, 29 September 2009 (UTC)