User talk:Nelso497

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Hello, Nelso497, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:03, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Editing marketing articles?

Hi, I responded to your question about the Marketing article on the talk page, Talk:Marketing. If you are thinking about editing this article for a student assignment, I would like to suggest that you reconsider and select a different marketing-related article. Wikipedia's Marketing article is a key article in the Marketing area, and as such, there are a large number of editors who monitor it. Some of these editors are very 'territorial' and delete all changes, often within minutes of them being added. They do this even when the changes are accurate and well-referenced - it seems that there is considerable resistance to any type of change.

I fear that you will become very frustrated if you try to clean up this article and will invest a lot of time for little or no outcome. The article, Outline of marketing contains a comprehensive list of all marketing related articles. Perhaps you could have a look at a few and identify a more minor article that you feel is in need of improvement? Minor articles are generally subject to much less scrutiny from editors. For example, the article on Promotion (marketing) needs a bit of work - note for instance, the balance of weight devoted to different topics - just two sentences on traditional media but 6 paragraphs on digital media; the so-called purpose of promotion just doesn't look right and which uses a reference to a book without a page ref so that the information cannot be validated; also note the lack of discussion of the promotional mix mentioned in the lead section, but never discussed in the article itself and there are many other problems.

I am a retired marketing academic with more than 30 years experience and would be more than happy to answer any questions you might have when you get into the editing stage. Just post your queries on my talk page User talk:BronHiggs and I will normally reply within 24-48 hours. BronHiggs (talk) 00:06, 24 September 2018 (UTC)