Wikipedia:Peer review/Verne Global/archive1

Verne Global
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review in order to improve the article and consequently for the information to be of more value to interested readers.

Thanks, TropicalIceland

Finetooth comments: This is a brand-new article created earlier this month and not really ready for peer review. (Please see the PR instructions for details). Nevertheless, here are a few suggestions for improvement.


 * The main problem is that this article is an advertisement for Verne Global rather than an encyclopedia article. Its point-of-view is heavily pro-Verne Global, and it depends heavily on Verne Global web pages for information. In fact, the first sentence of the lead is simply copied verbatim from the Verne Global source cited. It's good to cite the source but not acceptable to copy the company's copyrighted and self-promoting material. Please see WP:COI for information about conflicts of interest.


 * To see how an article about a company can be done in a neutral way based mainly on non-company sources considered reliable per WP:RS, you might look at Oliver Typewriter Company, which is a featured article about a private company. What you would need to do to write an encyclopedic Verne Global article would be to find neutral sources such as newspapers, magazines, government publications, and books published by reputable firms that discuss Verne Global or support more general claims made in the article.


 * When citing sources, be sure to include information other than the bare url. For Internet sources, that means author, title, publisher, date of publication, url, and date of most recent access if all of those are known or can be found. The "cite family" of templates at WP:CIT can be helpful in organizing the citation data. You can copy-and-paste the "cite web" template, for example, into your sandbox to see how it works. Even if you prefer not to use the templates, they can be good reminders of what data fields are required in a reference.

Hope this helps. Finetooth (talk) 18:14, 30 June 2010 (UTC)