Talk:Kronospan

Neutrality check

The article in its present state does seem to focus almost entirely on "health, safety and environmental incidents". Is this a balanced approach to covering information on this company? I'm not suggesting such issues shouldn't be covered at all, but we must be careful not to give undue weight to this aspect of the company's history. --88.104.46.22 (talk) 11:02, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

I totally agree that the article is very unbalanced, mostly the result of a single editor who may (or may not) have had a grudge against the company. However he/she did manage to establish good references for all the edits. What it needs now is someone else to provide the balance using well researched references and avoiding any copyright violations etc. For anyone with a genuine interest in Kronospan this shouldn't be a big problem.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   12:10, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

The article is certainly unbalanced and I understand why my ammends have been removed. Even though all information I provided was NOT promotional, but instead strictley factual. I will, as already discused with Velella source a draft version of information in order to update the article. Once the aforementioned draft has been produced I will liaise with Velella in order to resolve this dispute.Urbanchirk (talk) 14:31, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Is that the version that I have just had to significantly edit down to remove copyright violations and non-encyclopaedic material ? I don't recall any consultation.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   12:44, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

How and where would you like me to send the next draft?Urbanchirk (talk) 10:45, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   10:56, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

I think that it's a bit of a stretch of the imagination to assume I have any kind of grudge against this company, and a glance at my WP contributions should settle that. As for undue weight, well, the company isn't really notable for anything apart from its long history as a serial polluter. And any editor who has access to a library of wonderful things about them is of course free to add such information. This page was created in October 2009 and sat there ever since as a corporate page holder/puff piece. To give them some credit I did add info that they eventually decided to do something about their emissions, and I seem to recall I smartened up the intro, too. Sorry, but if organisations want pages about themselves on wp they have to take the rough with the smooth. Removing the only thing that they are really notable for would create a truly unbalanced article. I don't really have time to edit wp these days, but that doesn't mean I don't still read it. I'd rather read an unpleasant truth than a corporate whitewash. Keristrasza (talk) 18:12, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.kronospan.co.uk/pages/view/about-us/health-and-safety. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}  

Changes Proposition

Hello,

I am new to editing pages on Wikipedia and any guidance will be much appreciated. I would like to add more information about Kronospan company, since the information in the article is outdated (locations need updating, productions sites, etc.). In addition, I found that some of the facts ( the ones regarding an explosion at the Wood Treatment Ltd. plant and about the fire shot ) are about KronoSwiss, which is a totally separate company (although the owner is from the same family as the owner of Kronospan). I also believe it is important to add some information about the products the company manufactures, since people are not aware at all. Also, the text on health, safety and environment does not cover at all what Kronospan has done in terms of product certifications, CO2 emissions and energy consumption. I believe that there is more criticism in this article and it needs to be updated with more factual information.

Can you please advice me how to edit the content, because I already tried to, but none of the changes are visible? I would like to contribute, since I live in a city where Kronospan has a factory since 1997 and I am very much aware of its activities and how it contributed to the economy of my country and as a whole. Zornitsa KD (talk) 12:57, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Zornitsa KDZornitsa KD (talk) 12:57, 26 July 2016 (UTC)