On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Rick wrote:
[[User:Nunh-huh]] insists on including three pizza places and a restaurant on the New Haven page. I've been trying to delete them but he won't let me. When I suggested that if he's going to list them he should add several others, he said that I needed to add them if I thought they should be included. Isn't it POV to list only a very few of the hundreds of stores in a city's list? Isn't this free advertising?
I think so.
It's one thing to have an article about a company, which provides factual information about said company: it's chief executive officers, what it makes, why it is of interest. Much like a profile you might find in one of the Business references like S & P. There's an article about [[Powell's Books]] here in Portland, which is defensible because it considered a local landmark; I've been considering writing one on [[Tom Petersen]], a local electronics retailer, who not noly is a local pop culture icon, but has cameo roles in a number of Gus Van Sant movies (e.g., he plays the chief of police in "My Private Idaho").
It's another thing to have a link or entry that does nothing more than promote the business. I removed an external link to a listing of a local chain of restaurants for that reason. From your description, Nunh-huh is doing nothing more than providing free advertising.
Geoff