Talk:Rodale, Inc.

Location?
Not sure about this claim that Rodale's headquarters are "off Lehigh Street" in Emmaus. The "Main Building" is on the corner of Minor St. and Klines Lane; that must be what they mean, but it's not on Lehigh Street. --Pjmorse 23:00, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Template Restructure
I work for Rubenstein Communications and Rodale, Inc. is a client of ours. It has been brought to my attention that Rodale’s current article is out of date, contains non cited misinformation, and not in line with other articles in their industry – namely Time-Life and MSLO. I kindly request that an editor reorganize the content to make it reflect the structure of other articles in the industry. I propose the following structure:
 * - Rodale Inc
 * - Publishing
 * - History
 * - Direct Commerce
 * - Telemarketing
 * - External Links

If no action is taken within a week, I will make the edits myself. If there are any suggestions/edits/concerns, please discuss in my Talk Section. // Brycetom (talk) 19:44, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Content Update and Restructure
As posted in November 2008, I proposed a complete overhaul and restructure of this page. The information is outdated and unorganized. Based on other industry articles, I propose the following content blocks be added to replace the current article. To mitigate any conflict of interest, I kindly ask the editors to review the content provided below, and where appropriate, add to the live article. If no actions are taken within a week, I will proceed in making the content changes. If you have any questions or need additional sourcing, please leave a note on my talk page. // Brycetom (talk) 22:36, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Per the absence of response and/or objections, the article has been restructured. The content is more in line with other articles in the publishing industry. // Brycetom (talk) 20:09, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Content Update
I kindly request that an editor add the following content block to the article as a new section. After 3 days, if no action is taken, I will go ahead and place the content myself. // Brycetom (talk) 17:56, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Per the absence of response and/or objections, the article has been updated. // Brycetom (talk) 15:49, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Corruption
Requesting someone write about the controversy this corrupt company has caused. You buy anything from them online and they sign you up for other things and charge you for it even if you explicitly tell them not to. I bought a book from them and had to go through like 5 pages full of no i don't want to sign up for this this this. And then after all that, I am still signed up for these things, I'm receiving spam emails from all their bad magazines and emails about the biggest loser. And I am far from the only person with this same problem, just google it. Stay Classy Rodale. Qwiggalo (talk) 23:11, 24 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Absolutely, there should be a section on complaints, lawsuits, etc. I'd write it, but I'm not quite sure how to approach it (and, quite honestly, don't have the time to filter through all the info out there).  But, Googling both "Rodale complaints" and "Rodale lawsuits" returns lots of potential material for a section on this. Entrybreak (talk) 04:29, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Rodale Manufacturing - controversy worth mentioning?
In the history section told the article currently, it mentions R.I. Rodale's other company, Rodale Manufacturing. In the next sentence, the article mentions the publication of 'Organic Gardening' magazine since 1942.

Ironic then, that the Environmental Protection Agency discovered in 1981 that Rodale Manufacturing had been dumping electroplating wastewater into wells until 1967, causing TCE contamination into Emannus's municipal water supply. Source: http://www.epa.gov/reg3hscd/npl/PAD981033285.htm

Although it is a separate company, it had the same ownership as Rodale Inc, and the chemical dumping occurred for 25 years after 'Organic Gardening' (which promotes eliminating chemicals from gardening) began publishing.

Should this be incorporated into the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.227.124 (talk) 02:28, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a website for free advertising
As per WP:NOTADVERTISING, Wikipedia should not be used for free advertising. As such, I have deleted six of the seven Rodale website links. I have also made several other deletions pursuant to WP:NOT.--PhiladelphiaInjustice (talk) 23:17, 6 August 2016 (UTC)