Talk:Natural Gas Choice

Latest comment: 8 years ago by Akburnham in topic Point of View

Point of View edit

Two related articles, IGS Energy and Natural Gas Choice, have been nearly 100% written by two single purpose accounts, Mattcguy (talkcontribs) and Redsfan44 (talkcontribs). (other edits to promote IGS Energy 1 2 3 4 5 or remove adverse information 1 2.) These contributions are not a neutral point of view, and paint a rosy picture, seemingly crafted to appeal to IGS Energy's customers. The contributions do not discuss in plain talk what these things are, or describe the workings from any other viewpoint than the "brochure view" a marketer would offer a customer. A web search on these topics reveals a rather different picture, in which consumers and employees have a lot of problems. Other dialogue on the Talk page vaguely suggests sense of ownership by contributors. All these factors are circumstantial, but together they lend the appearance of conflict of interest and paid editing in my opinion. 174.62.117.228 (talk) 18:22, 23 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Point of View edit

I stumbled upon this article looking for history on the deregulation of natural gas. It is marked as biased and a sales pitch. While I am disappointed in the quality and quantity of information in the article, it does not seem to be sales pitch--at least not a good one. One can argue about whether having the primary utility being forced to carry another companies material is fair or not, but I did not see that issue raised. It could be an important option for people who only want to by renewable electricity, but I am mostly annoyed by telemarketers who want me to switch to them. It seems that a useful article would discuss the merits and problems with this issue as well has give more statistics on what has happened where. In addition, this article only mentions the United States. Is there any such practice in other countries? Akburnham (talk) 23:58, 18 June 2015 (UTC)Reply