Talk:Outdoor Research

Delete?
Article is not encyclopedic in nature, reads as a promotional advertisement similar to their website story, propose speedy-deletion. Only the first paragraph in the first section seems relevant. Propose to delete everything below it.Everestrecords (talk) 09:47, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Whilst you are welcome to make changes to the article, I'm afraid that it does not qualify as a candidate for speedy deletion, which requires that an article meet extremely strict criteria. I have therefore removed the speedy deletion request from this page. If you feel that the current tone is too promotional (it's certainly too discursive, and contains a number of peacock statements) then by all means edit it to make the necessary improvements. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  10:00, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your advise. I thought the first paragraph is the only encyclopedic content, and removed the rest, which was mainly advertisement and marketing.  I left their 3 webpages/websites, which provide all of the advertisement content, and history-advertisement, and product information.  Unfortunate so many companies use an encyclopedia for advertising.  Most get away with it because no one takes the time to hold them accountable.  Having their 3 websites listed is more than enough, along with their wikipedia listing and brief history.Everestrecords (talk) 07:52, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The company sponsors a mountaineer who was recently revealed by Outside Magazine to have drug-doped for his 2010 and 2012 Mt. Everest climbs. [] 13 paragraph from the bottom.  The mountaineer is readily listed on many of their webpages as a sponsored mountaineer.  Will consider adding this as a kind of "controversy" section to the main article, eg, Outdoor Research has sponsored a mountaineer who was revealed by Outside Magazine to engage in drug-doping for his Mt. Everest without-supplemental-oxygen climbing attempts.Everestrecords (talk) 07:52, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Outdoor Gear history

 * outdoorinov8.com
 * Compass: Charting the Evolution of Outdoor Gear
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20180207171632/http://www.outdoorinov8.com/
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20141008221022/http://www.inov8.au.com/compass/
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20120502091817/http://homepage.mac.com/inov8/Compass/
 * The History of American Backpacking Gear Pioneers 1935 to the Present at oregonphotos.com
 * .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 20:44, 29 August 2023 (UTC)