Category talk:People associated with direct selling

Off Target and Misleading

This is a very odd list. First, this list doesn't appear to be applicable to "direct sales" per se but rather "multilevel marketing" (MLM). Ergo, referring to "direct sales" is deceptive. Secondly, there are people pon the list who are not even associated with direct sales but rather are affiliated with MLM companies as researchers (eg, McCord, Wise) or are authors who have written critiques about MLM (eg, Fitzpatrick). This list ill-concevived and misleading. Rhode Island Red (talk) 18:47, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

I simply went through all of the articles under direct sales companies, and its subcat MLM companies, and found names associates with those companies. "Associated" means they are somehow involved with direct sales, either as an executive/founder, notable distributor, spokesperson, scientist, etc. Prominent advocates and critics would also fall under this list, hence Fitzpatrick. Looking at category name precedence, "associated" seemed to be the best word choice. If you know of other WP articles of people that falls into this realm, please tag - I'm sure I didn't get them all.  Leef5  ^{TALK | CONTRIBS} 18:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)