Talk:Boldon James

John Lawton

can someone add some stuff regarding John Lawton? He was a manager at Boldon James in the eighties. Prior to that I believe he was a radio operator in the merchant navy. He also once overturned his company Vauxhall Cavalier on the motorway, but he came out unscathed. There is plenty of material on the web about his marathon run in Greece. Also, he deserves a web page. See URL: https://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/local-news/widow-marathon-runner-john-lawton-5601078

The Boldon James Entry

Hi - we want to edit the Boldon James article as it is now quite out-of-date and doesn't accurately reflect the current organisation or it's products. I've attempted to do this several times, only to have the changes rejected and the article revert back to its original form. We have spent some time writing a profile of the company which is as neutral and non-spammy as possible, but which accurately represents the organisation as it exists today. This is particularly important to us as Facebook have now posted up a Community page about Boldon James which takes it's content from this article. I am the Corporate Comms representative for Boldon James and whilst I understand that it's important that Wikipedia is neutral and not a Marketing forum, I believe it's also important that an organisation be allowed some input on how they are represented both here and on Facebook. How do I get changes made? 85.159.169.76 (talk) 13:51, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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Requested maintenance updates: ownership wording, product naming, logo, and unsourced operations claims

Hello, I have a conflict of interest with respect to this article and associated topics (declared on my user page: Fortra, Boldon James, and Vera Security). These are limited maintenance requests aimed at accuracy and sourcing.

1. Ownership wording in lead, and current product name

In the lead, please update the sentence about the 2020 acquisition to reflect the later rebrand:

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The company was acquired in June 2020 by [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]-based software developer HelpSystems.

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The company was acquired in June 2020 by [[Minneapolis]]-based software developer HelpSystems, which rebranded as Fortra in 2022.

In the Products section, please add the following sentence at the end, to reflect the current product name:

Boldon James' data-classification software is now marketed by Fortra as Fortra Classifier Suite.

Reason: The lead correctly notes the 2020 HelpSystems acquisition but not the subsequent HelpSystems-to-Fortra rebrand. The Products section describes the product range only in legacy terms and does not mention the current Fortra product name. This is a narrow update: it keeps the article's existing history framing while making current parent-company and product naming clearer and sourced.

2. Outdated logo

The infobox/lead area currently shows File:Boldon James - A HelpSystems Company Logo.png, captioned "Boldon James - A HelpSystems Company Logo". That branding predates the 2022 rebrand and is no longer current. Please remove it, or replace it with a current logo if a suitably licensed one is available.

Reason: The image preserves outdated parent-company ("A HelpSystems Company") branding that no longer reflects the subject.

3. Operations section (unsourced)

Please remove the Operations section in its entirety:

Boldon James Holdings Ltd is registered in Farnborough, Hampshire, whilst Boldon James' development office is in Crewe. The company has 85 employees, 70% of which are technical staff, and has clients including Financial Services Organisations such as Prudential and Allianz, the UK and German Ministries of Defence, and defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, amongst others.

Reason: This section is legacy company-profile material that is unsourced; the employee-count and client-list claims have carried a {{Citation needed}} tag since December 2019, and I was unable to locate reliable independent sourcing to retain them. Per WP:V, unsourced content may be removed, and I think removal is cleaner here than leaving long-tagged claims in place. (Additionally, and secondarily, the registered-office wording appears stale: the company's current registered office is in Altrincham rather than Farnborough. I raise this only to note the section is likely outdated as well as unsourced; the sourcing gap is the primary basis for removal.)

Thank you for considering these limited requests. Mrmctorso (talk) 20:59, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

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