Brattygirl

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By the way, Wikipedia does have its own Manual of Style. Guidelines regarding trademarks says that we should "follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules, regardless of the preference of the trademark owner." For example, "Realtor" should be used instead of "REALTOR®". Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Manual of style

As you've already been told once, we follow standard capitalization rules here and don't do trademark symbols. Please don't change the Realtor entry again. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 13:37, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Trademarks

Trademarks are registered marks intended to be used in commerce. A markholder may *PREFER* the mark be used in a certain fashion, but there is no legal obligation for anyone to follow their *WISHES*. In the end the intent of a trademark is not to restrict the general use of the word or force people to capitalize it or use a certain color, but to restrict others from using the mark in commerce, i.e, its ok to talk about realtors in any fashion but it would not be ok to sell houses claiming you are a realtor if the markholder (NAR) has not permitted yourself to use the title.

Please read Trademark and also the manual of style for which you have been provided the link multiple times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.238.172.212 (talk) 05:49, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Well good luck with that. Many realtors are going out of their way to be sure the word REALTOR(r) is being properly presented. When I found the improper usage a few days ago, I immediately blogged to a network of approximately 100,000 realtor plus any member of the public who reads the blog, to come here and make sure Wikipedia is properly using the LEGALLY TRADEMARKED use of the word relator The National Association of realtors has paid for a Trademark and expects the trademark to be upheld. So I guess you're going to have your hands full.

Obviously you do not understand what a trademark is, how US trademark laws work or the meaning of fair use. 74.163.246.28 (talk)

Has this been addressed with the National Association of REALTORS(r)?

Also, why am I seeing notations to ME specifically, about being contacted multiple times? This is the first contact I've seen.Brattygirl (talk) 05:20, 14 June 2008 (UTC)