Lance1cj

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Bearclaw Coffee

Like it or not, Starbucks is much, much bigger than Bearclaw. Big enough that the founding of Starbucks takes on more importance than the founding of Bearclaw, as do its founders. Beaners is a little larger, and so is its article. However, the Beaners article should be smaller. I'll get to that presently. The fact that the Bearclaw article has only been edited by people that have done nothing else raised suspicions that there was a conflict of interest. I'm not alone in thinking that. - Richfife 20:47, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I cut back the Beaners article. - Richfife 15:09, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm actually not a fan of the Starbucks article either (too close to advertising). I don't believe that the COI tag should be there as the article is, so I took it out, but user:Bearian put it back. I could take it out again, but there's a word for that: Edit war. I already mentioned this issue on the articles talk page, but Bearian didn't reply. Perhaps you can drop them a line on their talk page and see what their thoughts are. - Richfife 01:01, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I removed the COI2 tag. Bearian 23:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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