Talk:Nancy Cruickshank

Edits to De-Promotionalize

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I propose deleting these portions of the article:

In 2000 she started a Women In Business program at Handbag.com, fielding thousands of business plans submitted by women and arranging start-up loans through Barclays Bank, the program's sponsor.

I'm innately concerned with this sentence because it's putting lipstick on a pig. Nancy was tying-in women to high-interest bank loans that they would then sign-over to her for her multi-level marketing scheme. That aside, however, it is sourced to two non-RS, something called "Erisea Magazine" which appears to be a non-RS website (plus it's an interview), and something called inspiringfifty.com, another non-RS website.

In addition to offering a distribution channel for niche products, MyShowcase provides mentoring, training, and flextime employment for over 400 women who wish to develop their own beauty businesses.

This sentence is inherently deceptive by phrasing a Cutco-style door-to-door commission-based selling program as "flextime employment" ... "own your own business!" is the marketing-speak these kind-of outfits use to recruit their "entrepreneurs" who usually make zilch (the company reels in everything from the initial investment these poor women are forced to indebt themselves to pay-out).

She is an active promoter of women in business.

Not sourced to RS.

She was named one of the fifty most inspiring women in European tech by the Inspiring Fifty organisation in 2015.

Awards program that, itself, does not pass GNG shouldn't be in lede.
LavaBaron (talk) 18:05, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

• Support - This woman sounds really skeezy, however, her PR rep has done a good job attempting to wrap-her in a couple puff piece interviews. While we can't OR a call-out on this, we should apply the highest normative standards for sources where we're able to do so. LavaBaron (talk) 18:05, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support - summoned by bot. You don't need to do a RFC for this. This article was just created a week ago! Just be bold and fix it. —Мандичка^YO 😜 00:04, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Agree with the above user. Cheers, Comatmebro User talk:Comatmebro 20:32, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Comatmebro, et. al., in deference to your feedback I'm closing the RfC and making the changes. LavaBaron (talk) 20:25, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

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The DYK hook presented a claim by Ms Cruickshank in an interview as a fact... Nick-D (talk) 07:15, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi

There is a major error in this bio: she claims to have founded Handbag.com in 2000, but it was actually my brother, Dominic Riley who did so in 1999.

I visited Dominic in his office at Handbag in that year, and she wasn't there, because she wasn't there.

Email me on roofingag@gmaiul.com, and I will give you his mobile number. Dominic is currently the Chairman of Morgan Cars.(----)