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This article is far from a NPOV, referring to EarthLink as "front group" for Scientology, and referring to Scientology as a "crime syndicate" and using a dubious and quite slanted source as a refererence for this.
This needs to be cleaned up with the slander removed.
This article is does not have a NPOV. It mentions (in a negative light) Scientology more than Earthlink the company. This article needs to be cleaned up. FloBrio 05:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)Flo
Should this be in the category Internet service providers rather than Internet companies of the United States? Birkett 13:05, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me the benefits and cons of using Earthlink instead of Mozilla Firefox?
I cleaned up the article and removed much of the speculative talk about scientology and its mafia running EarthLink... mwhahaha! Once we take over the world and enslave the nations of Earth I'll put it back. (couldn't help myself) 03/26/06
Perhaps my humor was misinterpreted, but I have reverted the article to reflect the actual company rather than speculation about the company. I even included a small section devoted to the speculation. I am not affiliated with any organization bent on the take over of the world. Please discuss. 03/27/06 04:30 CST
I'm putting this bit of trivia in here first because I don't know if it's worthy of the proper article. Earthlink's two nameservers are called itchy and scratchy after The Simpsons cartoon characters in The Itchy & Scratchy Show. [1] Sparky132 20:10, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
The article mentions that DNS does not have any features to seperate HTTP from non-HTTP traffic. While generally this is true, DNS does include features to separate mail delivery from everything else, and Earthlinks change would be detrimental if it altered MX records. So, the word IMPOSSIBLE is not true, as I am certain that Earthlink did take effort to ensure that MX records weren't tampered with.
Several of the external links do not appear to conform with WP:EL guidelines and were removed. Particularly, links to blogs, forums and discussion groups, as well as links to sites promoting an agenda WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Calltech 12:43, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I think we should split Atria Software into a new article.-- Jet123 22:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
The short section on Reed Slatkin's criminal activity placed at the end of this article seems unnecessary (his con wasn't an enterprise managed by Earthlink), redundant (all this is covered on Slatkin's article in better detail), and weirdly placed (why does this section close the article?). I think it should be removed. SNDLLN ( talk) 18:31, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Refers to Earthlink's included anti-virus softwars as a "bogus marketing ploy" that's pretty harsh especially with no source.
Further down in the article it says "In 2007 they fired half their staff and the customer service sucks now" or something like that. Again, harsh and no sources.
I didn't even get through the whole article because it is so bad. Somebody fix this up please. (I am not a scientologist okay xenu.net) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.245.74.61 ( talk) 01:16, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
This [2] William Ortiz ( talk) 02:56, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
I use EarthLink through Time Warner Cable and wanted to learn more about the two companies' connection. It is my hope that someone with knowledge include this in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.215.136.243 ( talk) 15:24, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
I find it confusing to see no mentioning of EarthLink's business with Apple (2001 and up). Has this been voted out sometime? I see no reason not to include it. -- 87.154.238.155 ( talk) 12:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
This article is so useless as to be a perfect example of the stupidity and uselessness of wikipedias phony and fictional "NPOV" philosophy.
NPOV sure, as long as the corporate hacks know how to tiptoe around it and/or the article jibes with the Wikipedia insiders personal opines then hey sure it's "neutral".
Reads like a cleansed immaculate corporate bio from the EarthLink corp communications department.
BTW I don't hate EarthLink or have any grudge, this just happens to be one if many if not most obviously corporately manipulated articles now that the hacks have figured out how to tiptoe the rules and get a shiny happy PR piece without stepping over the ridiculous fictional "NPOV" line. I learned nothing about EarthLink from this article except that they have good folks on wiki watch at corporate.
As I found it, mid-August 2014, the article was written in speedy advertising cant, and was obviously unfit for publication in an encyclopedia. I have cleaned it up somewhat, but's it's still pretty much a juvenile PR handout.
David Lloyd-Jones ( talk) 04:22, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Use of the email account <@earthlink.net> -- while tagged for an individual's personal email account -- was intercepted and replied upon by a member of the law enforcement community with respect to litigation of a possible DEA confidential informant. Therefore, the account(s) is/was used by members of governmental agencies. 70.188.238.218 ( talk) 03:51, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:EarthLink/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
*2 images, 9 citations. Article could use expansion, lots more citations could be added and are readily available online... Smee 08:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC). |
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First of all, the banner on the article says this reads like an advertisement...Very true. I've been with Earthlink as my first and only provider since their beginning in the 90's. I recently got an ambiguous email saying my service would no longer be available (with only 3 weeks notice) as of 9-3-2020, but great news I'm available for hyperlink. As it comes down, no hyperlink or any service available for me in the Denver area.. The line was provided through Centurylink. I am left looking for a new provider. Anyway, I see there haven't been any recent constructive edits for some time. I notice in 2017 they were sold to Windstream for $1.1 billion and then in 2019 resold for only $330 million. The article reads like everything is rosy and wonderful with Earthlink. It would be nice to see current numbers of subscribers, service area, and troubles. Flight Risk ( talk) 00:30, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know why EarthLink has such little software competence?
I don't. But if anyone does, it would be very useful to include that information in the article.
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This article is far from a NPOV, referring to EarthLink as "front group" for Scientology, and referring to Scientology as a "crime syndicate" and using a dubious and quite slanted source as a refererence for this.
This needs to be cleaned up with the slander removed.
This article is does not have a NPOV. It mentions (in a negative light) Scientology more than Earthlink the company. This article needs to be cleaned up. FloBrio 05:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)Flo
Should this be in the category Internet service providers rather than Internet companies of the United States? Birkett 13:05, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me the benefits and cons of using Earthlink instead of Mozilla Firefox?
I cleaned up the article and removed much of the speculative talk about scientology and its mafia running EarthLink... mwhahaha! Once we take over the world and enslave the nations of Earth I'll put it back. (couldn't help myself) 03/26/06
Perhaps my humor was misinterpreted, but I have reverted the article to reflect the actual company rather than speculation about the company. I even included a small section devoted to the speculation. I am not affiliated with any organization bent on the take over of the world. Please discuss. 03/27/06 04:30 CST
I'm putting this bit of trivia in here first because I don't know if it's worthy of the proper article. Earthlink's two nameservers are called itchy and scratchy after The Simpsons cartoon characters in The Itchy & Scratchy Show. [1] Sparky132 20:10, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
The article mentions that DNS does not have any features to seperate HTTP from non-HTTP traffic. While generally this is true, DNS does include features to separate mail delivery from everything else, and Earthlinks change would be detrimental if it altered MX records. So, the word IMPOSSIBLE is not true, as I am certain that Earthlink did take effort to ensure that MX records weren't tampered with.
Several of the external links do not appear to conform with WP:EL guidelines and were removed. Particularly, links to blogs, forums and discussion groups, as well as links to sites promoting an agenda WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Calltech 12:43, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I think we should split Atria Software into a new article.-- Jet123 22:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
The short section on Reed Slatkin's criminal activity placed at the end of this article seems unnecessary (his con wasn't an enterprise managed by Earthlink), redundant (all this is covered on Slatkin's article in better detail), and weirdly placed (why does this section close the article?). I think it should be removed. SNDLLN ( talk) 18:31, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Refers to Earthlink's included anti-virus softwars as a "bogus marketing ploy" that's pretty harsh especially with no source.
Further down in the article it says "In 2007 they fired half their staff and the customer service sucks now" or something like that. Again, harsh and no sources.
I didn't even get through the whole article because it is so bad. Somebody fix this up please. (I am not a scientologist okay xenu.net) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.245.74.61 ( talk) 01:16, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
This [2] William Ortiz ( talk) 02:56, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
I use EarthLink through Time Warner Cable and wanted to learn more about the two companies' connection. It is my hope that someone with knowledge include this in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.215.136.243 ( talk) 15:24, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
I find it confusing to see no mentioning of EarthLink's business with Apple (2001 and up). Has this been voted out sometime? I see no reason not to include it. -- 87.154.238.155 ( talk) 12:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
This article is so useless as to be a perfect example of the stupidity and uselessness of wikipedias phony and fictional "NPOV" philosophy.
NPOV sure, as long as the corporate hacks know how to tiptoe around it and/or the article jibes with the Wikipedia insiders personal opines then hey sure it's "neutral".
Reads like a cleansed immaculate corporate bio from the EarthLink corp communications department.
BTW I don't hate EarthLink or have any grudge, this just happens to be one if many if not most obviously corporately manipulated articles now that the hacks have figured out how to tiptoe the rules and get a shiny happy PR piece without stepping over the ridiculous fictional "NPOV" line. I learned nothing about EarthLink from this article except that they have good folks on wiki watch at corporate.
As I found it, mid-August 2014, the article was written in speedy advertising cant, and was obviously unfit for publication in an encyclopedia. I have cleaned it up somewhat, but's it's still pretty much a juvenile PR handout.
David Lloyd-Jones ( talk) 04:22, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Use of the email account <@earthlink.net> -- while tagged for an individual's personal email account -- was intercepted and replied upon by a member of the law enforcement community with respect to litigation of a possible DEA confidential informant. Therefore, the account(s) is/was used by members of governmental agencies. 70.188.238.218 ( talk) 03:51, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:EarthLink/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
*2 images, 9 citations. Article could use expansion, lots more citations could be added and are readily available online... Smee 08:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC). |
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First of all, the banner on the article says this reads like an advertisement...Very true. I've been with Earthlink as my first and only provider since their beginning in the 90's. I recently got an ambiguous email saying my service would no longer be available (with only 3 weeks notice) as of 9-3-2020, but great news I'm available for hyperlink. As it comes down, no hyperlink or any service available for me in the Denver area.. The line was provided through Centurylink. I am left looking for a new provider. Anyway, I see there haven't been any recent constructive edits for some time. I notice in 2017 they were sold to Windstream for $1.1 billion and then in 2019 resold for only $330 million. The article reads like everything is rosy and wonderful with Earthlink. It would be nice to see current numbers of subscribers, service area, and troubles. Flight Risk ( talk) 00:30, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know why EarthLink has such little software competence?
I don't. But if anyone does, it would be very useful to include that information in the article.