Talk:Hal Leonard

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This page seems to be hardly more than an ad for Hal Leonard Co, especially the "Where to buy" section. I suggest you stubify this article. Frosty 01:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I would agree that they page needs some heavy editing. I own and use many of Hal Leonard Easy Play books. They are very popular in our organ club. Perhaps the article should be rewritten to make it more informative and useful and more enccyclopedic. --Phil talk 15:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

- This page has many identical phrases that appear on Hal Leonards Website. Phil talk 17:23, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

--- I blanked the 'Sales' and 'Where to Buy' sections. The rest of the article needs help, though. ObtuseAngle 15:02, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

This whole thing has to go. It's all lifted directly from either the Hal Leonard website or SEC filings. Word for word, as far as I can tell (though I just sampled four or five sentences.) What do we do with things like this? Delete it and start over? --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 03:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC) --- This article once again reads like an advertisement/PR release. A stub would probably be better than this stuff. Thinking of reverting to this version. Thoughts, anyone? RandyKaelber (talk) 02:06, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Feh. Stubbified. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 04:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violation
Most of the page is a word-for-word copyright violation of: http://www.halleonard.com/about_main.jsp, as edited by user... HalLeonard. I reworked page to avoid copyright violation.

HalLeonard, you need to read WP:CONFLICT. The comments above give you a good idea some of the article's deficiencies as a Wikipedia encyclopedia entry. Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 22:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Potential sources
A potential source, but I could not figure out how to bring the content to encyclopedic format.

http://books.google.com/books?id=_n_5Vl-mgX4C&pg=PA15&dq=music+%22Hal+Leonard+Corporation%22+Milwaukee&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPA12,M1
 * Library acquisition of music By Robert Michael Fling, Peter Alan Munstedt

This looks promising, but has only snippet view on line
 * The Relationship of School Band Educators, the Music Publishing Industry ... By Jeffery David http://books.google.com/books?id=YYlpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22music+industry%22+%22Hal+Leonard%22&dq=%22music+industry%22+%22Hal+Leonard%22&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&pgis=1

Biographical Information
This article would be more interesting if it said something about the founders who were musicians..the links redirect to a town where they have an office...someone cleaned it up enough that it doesn`t really read like an advertisement...although the original version linked above is actually more informative and a better read it was obviously written by someone connected to the company as the editors name was Hal Leonard..the links associated with the founders should at least be fixed. Special:Contributions/75.139.89.159|75.139.89.159]] (talk) 17:08, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

I doubt it’s a monopoly.
The statement that HL is a monopoly is a bit comical. I suggest a citation for such an assertion. Meanwhile, there are currently 83 entries at this page. And HL has a monopoly over it all? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sheet_music_publishing_companies — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.102.233.130 (talk) 14:53, 9 September 2019 (UTC)