Talk:Pollstar

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This is proposed text to expand the Pollstar stub. I'm the Marketing Manager for Pollstar and thus a primary source. Because this also creates a potential conflict of interest, I'm putting the text here for comments and evaluation.

Profcdavid 16:32, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Founded in 1981, Pollstar has published a weekly magazine that has become a prominent trade publication for the concert industry. Pollstar was an early pioneer in providing concert tour information on-line, launching Pollstar.com in 1994 and providing tour itineraries free to music fans world-wide. The company also hosts a web site for music business professionals at PollstarPro.com. `

Pollstar services are subscription based, distributed worldwide and include the weekly magazine as well as access to an on-line database of international concert tour information and music industry contacts. Pollstar also provides news, box office summaries, tour itineraries and research for industry professionals.

As a member of the Associated Press (AP), Pollstar is frequently cited in news reports covering the music business and concert performances.

[edit] recent edit

I went ahead and applied the "be bold" policy and added to this stub. I'll let the chips fall in regard to any COI issues that anyone wants to raise.

12.33.4.35 16:00, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] proposal for deletion removed

I removed the delete proposal for the following reasons:

Pollstar is itself a de facto reliable source, since it is both a news agency, publisher, and a member of Associated Press. Any online search will demonstrate this. On the Wikipedia site alone, there are over 100 articles that cite Pollstar.

A similar company is Billboard, which has an extensive article on Wikipedia. Because they too are a publisher and news source, they face a similar "catch-22." In fact, the only two references cited are from their website. If Pollstar should be deleted, Billboard should be as well.

Of course, I'm recommending neither, as each serves a useful purpose by their inclusion.

Profcdavid (talk) 22:53, 10 June 2008 (UTC)