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Restoring article to its current version

I recently reverted a substantial rewrite of the article (here) and thought I should explain why. The rewrite was to restore an earlier and inferior version of the page with the following isssues:

  • Poor sourcing - the earlier version has few sources and most of those are primary (eg. books and displays written by Noel Gray and family about Noel Gray).
  • Point of view problems - a focus of the earlier version appears to be to promote the achievements of Noel Gray at the expense of other Telectronics personnel. This is not supported by adequate sourcing, and presernts itself as a POV problem. It should be noted that this is also not the Noel Desmond Gray article, which is a more suitable place for discussion of his history compared to the company's.
  • Conflict of interest - from the talk pages here and at Talk:Noel Desmond Gray, it appears the earlier version was subtantially written by Mr Gray's son. This is a conflict of interest, which should be avoided wherever possible.
  • Article "ownership" - though this is the most subjective issue, the earlier version contains numerous spelling, format and grammatical errors, as well as links to long-deleted images. this suggests it was not reverted to as a carefully considered alternative, but simply to put the article back to the last version that editor wrote and delete everyone else's contributions. If this is an incorrect assumption I am happy to withdraw it with apologies.

As significant reversion deserve some discussion I would welcome anyone else's comments on these points. Euryalus (talk) 04:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First of all you are refferencing inaccurate material. The obit for Trainor written by Robert Foot is full of lies and is not suported by the factual Corporate Affairs Documents nor the records of Nucleus or Telectronics. It is a subjective reccolection from Trainor who himself passed himself off as the founder of Telectronics in order to defraud the public when he floated Nucleus in 1980 and subsequently Telectronics Holdings Limited. He remained in controll only because he hels over 50% of the shares in each company not because of his ability or performance. Indeed the shares of both companies floundered until he sold to Pacific Dunlop at a marked premium to the trading price after being rebufed by Seimens owners of anothe pacing company, because they "didn't trust him". The company was in a mess when PD bought it and the fact speak for themselves in that regard since the company was defunct soon after the purchase. A lot has been writen about Telectronics in the media and much if not all of it is untrue. Like Napoleon Trainor controled what was writen manipulatin staff with threats of dismissal if Noel Gray's name was ever mentioned. Wickham and Jeffcoat cooperated with this and so the situation now is not the truth but rasther a cocnoction of the protagonists minus Noel Gray's story. Since it was he who founded the company and whom's work the others are falsley claiming it is wrong of Wickapedia to ignore Noel Gray and his views as expressed in 'Tel;ectronics the Early Years' Attempts by Wickham to convince the readers ogf this site that Noel Gray told untruths and his son is mad should be seen for what they are, a blantant attempt to promote his view at the sexense of the truth. (Veritas)

  • I support the views of User:Euryalus. It is of concern that the edit by (Veritas) above and edits to the article by the same 203.164.xxx.xxx constitute not only Poor Sourcing, Point of view problems, Conflict of interest, & WP:Own but also WP:Attack on some persons.QRS|QRS (talk) 02:30, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]