Talk:Davenport Lyons

NPOV

Recent edits to the article seem to need a review as they appear to be all very favourable to the company from someone who has only edited this one page. Tends to suggest that they are probably not going to be very NPOV.

Also, Davenport Lyons was not established in 1938 but as recently as 7 years ago. Davenport Lyons staff are altering this page. --jmb (talk) 17:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

You're right. It seems that they are. Whoever was at IP address 81.171.230.228 inserted a self-promotional non-encyclopedic screed to try to hide the complaints against the company. It was done a bit at a time, the first edits seeming innocuous, but eventually it built up to an unreadable block of text to divert from the complaints issue, which was shifted to the bottom. --Farry (talk) 14:56, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't sure what was going on from that IP address but it did look as if something odd was going on. --jmb (talk) 22:57, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

There's another series of edits from the same IP address between 30 September 2009 and 27 November and the opening of the article currently reads like a brochure for the firm. Further investigation shows the IP registered to Matrix Securities Ltd. who have ties with Davenport Lyons - remove all edits?

(Furtled! (talk) 04:06, 29 November 2009 (UTC))

Sources and bespoke cite

I have just added numbers of associates and partners, using a 2008 archived page from http://www.davenportlyons.com as primary source. When I created this stub in September 2008, I used 15 and not 16, but I may have miscounted or the number changed from April to September.

The Financial Times news story "Megan Murphy, Law Courts Correspondent. ‘Bespoke’ ruling fails to suit Savile Row" was accessible at the URL I used in 2008 but FT.com now has a frustratingly flaky archive system, even for registered users. FT.com links three versions in this FT search, but I can access only two of them, and at times the FT reports PAGE UNAVAILABLE for a link that worked seconds previously. I will add the other URL to the cite, to maximise the chances of readers finding an accessible version. Note archived ft.com articles require a free registration which is limited to 10 views per 30 days (unregistered users are allowed just one view every 30 days).

The stories linked by the FT.com archive search are:

• June 18, 2008. http://www.ft.com/cms/55615c06-3cd0-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.html (available sometimes, Last updated: June 18 2008 03:00) 'Bespoke' ruling fails to suit Savile Row ... By Megan Murphy, Law Courts Correspondent
• June 17, 2008. http://www.ft.com/cms/530912f8-3c9b-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.html or [1] (Last updated: June 18 2008 00:16) ‘Bespoke’ ruling fails to suit Savile Row ... By Megan Murphy, Law Courts Correspondent
• June 19, 2008. http://www.ft.com/cms/353e9ce0-3da7-11dd-bbb5-0000779fd2ac.html (PAGE UNAVAILABLE) ‘Bespeak’ was a simple term that implied no cachet ...

Finally, this FT archive search returns 14 results containing "Davenport Lyons". -84user (talk) 14:14, 14 March 2010 (UTC)