Talk:Legal advertising
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Legal advertising was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: September 10, 2007 |
[edit] Merger
I would like to merge Legal marketing into this article. I would go along with the vice versa, merging this one into that one. Bearian 14:51, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Failed GA
I'm failing this article as a GA for a number of reasons that I don't see can be addressed in a short time.
- Broadness
- The article is very US-Centric. It must cover the topic much more widely
- Law spans thousands of years, advertising many hundreds but the article mentions nothing prior to 1977. A section on the history of advertising of legal firms is required. The article suffers from Recentism
- Misses having the legal (and historic ) basis for banning advertising by lawyers, why this is objected to and what arguments over time have been used on both sides - whether successful or not.
- Far too short - expanding to the rest of the world and expanding the timeframe will probably correct this
- Well written
- I would suggest a peer review after the material is expanded as currently there are many single sentence paragraphs and grammar mistakes (like 1990's rather than 1990s )
- Article contradicts itself at least once. At the beginning the term is said to cover "marketing and public relations" but the last section before the references confuses this.
- References
- While many of the references are acceptable the blog link, and the two notes about internet searches should be replaced with published and printed sources. These new sources are most likely to result in the referenced text changing as well
- Printed paper sources are best for a subject like this. The internet is unlikely to reveal anything significant beyond the last 20-30 years.
