Talk:The Broadway League

Merge discussion

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The result was merge by silence

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I'm proposing merger of Broadway on Broadway , Broadway Under the Stars and Stars in the Alley into this article. The merged subjects are short and not notable on themselves. They also lack references. The tone they use is close to WP:ADS. I propose a section "Annual events" which will list these events in a short, informative way. --Muhandes (talk) 17:03, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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Marketing point of view throughout article

There are fairly obvious signs throughout this article that it was written by marketers instead of legitimate Wikipedia editors. Removing small things like registered trademark symbols isn't going to fix it; its style makes it obvious that the text was written by someone commissioned by The Broadway League, and has been put on Wikipedia as either a conflict of interest, a copyright violation, or both, and might even have to be rewritten from scratch if it was written by The Broadway League for anything purpose other than a Wikipedia article. Parts may appear in About the League and its attached PDF, but I haven't looked that far yet; lots of the fluff cites it as a source, though. Examples of things that occur repeatedly in this article:

• Unbalanced opinions from the subject itself about itself presented as if they were facts &mdash for example:
  • that the organization is "committed to" and "dedicated to" things;
  • that people who buy two-for-one tickets for Broadway shows see "the magic of live theatre";
  • that they stopped "draconian censorship" (mentioned twice, and of course with no explanation); and
  • that they were established to "protect consumers from unscrupulous ticket brokers" (actually a reference to preventing ticket resale).
• The aforementioned use of registered trademark symbols repeatedly, in violation of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks#General rules, is a dead giveaway that the contributed text is copy-paste written by a public relations staff of the organization without regard for Wikipedia guidelines or policy.
• Non-ASCII apostrope and quote marks that don't occur when people are editing Wikipedia directly instead of copy-pasting. (Occasionally legitimate Wikipedia contributors write an article using a word processor that does this to apostrophes and quotes, but usually it's copy-paste marketing instead.)

--Closeapple (talk) 05:22, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Copied content was introduced to the article at 19:58, 23 July 2012 and following, including material from the current website, history pdf and other press statements ("Perhaps the most public endeavor of the League are the Tony Awards®, which the League has co-presented with the American Theatre Wing since 1967, playing an integral role in their governance, production, and presentation." was part of this press release). Pending permission, this content has had to be removed. Of course, permission would not address any WP:NPOV issues. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:01, 2 February 2013 (UTC)