User talk:Ferguson 1CP

Wikipedia welcomes all constructive contributions to our encyclopedia, but your recent addition to Barclays plc appears to be copyrighted text. Unfortunately we cannot accept copyrighted material for legal reasons, as it is not compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License under which Wikipedia is published. You may use external material as a reference, but your contributions must be in your own words. Thank you. — ERcheck (talk) 12:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I spoke just now on the phone with Ferguson 1CP, who put this stuff here - they're a press officer for Barclays and didn't realise this would be a conflict of interest. (And hadn't heard of the publicity disaster last week concerning Microsoft.) I suggested they come to the article talk page, introduce themselves and supply info for others to add. (And be sure that releasing text under GFDL - putting it out of actual control - is precisely what they want to do.) So the text should just be reviewed by other editors for NPOV and maybe rewritten as needed - David Gerard 16:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm surprised that, with the major splash that the Microsoft story made, press offices of all major companies were not aware of the issue. David, thanks for taking action here. Ferguson, I second David's advice about discussion on the talk page. I call to your attention Wikipedia's policy on verifiable sources— so you can see what is needed for source information. — ERcheck (talk) 20:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I was merely correcting the figures and statements already on there.Ferguson 1CP.

Please take a look at the article's talk page. Can you provide recent reliable statistics with outside references as to the global and UK standings? — ERcheck (talk) 00:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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Hoops Venus Fly 56 (talk) 21:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)