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With reference to the alerts that were placed on the article page, I am hoping that these can now be removed. The alerts related to: This article may contain promotional material and other spam.

• Since this was inserted a number of changes and edits have been made to the article which should have addressed this issue.

A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.

• I'm not exactly sure how to counter this other than to say that I believe that the article stands on its merits as a piece about a noteworthy topic, being the first legal moonshine to be produced in New England, and having been covered in sources such as NY Times, NBC, Bloomberg, as well as a number of regional publications.

This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it.

• There is now a link one other article to this article - Moonshine by country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine_by_country

I would be grateful for the views of any editors on this topic. Thank you Fbell74 (talk) 10:18, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• • The creator and updater of this website, FBell74, was a hired for a fee by the owners of the company to create the Wiki page and promote their products: http://www.freelancer.com/u/fbell74.htmlCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). . Therefore, the concerns of the author having a close connection and promotional nature are justified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.249.47.163 (talk) 12:56, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• • • Fair enough; I take your point re the COI alert.Fbell74 (talk) 00:36, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE. Fbell74 (talk · contribs) has been paid by Adam von Gootkin on behalf of Onyx Moonshine.

Moved the following potential references. Per WP:FURTHER, the further reading section where they were should provide a "reasonable number" of higher focused quality items, "in the same citation style used by the rest of the article" (not raw URLs). Bri (talk) 23:41, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• The New York Times
• Connecticut Public Radio
• Time
• WGGB/WSHM News
• The Republican
• The Middletown Press
• Manchester Patch
• Connecticut Made. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 111–112.
• Hartford Courant
• Hartford Courant
• WBTV News
• Hartford Business Journal
• CTNow
• States News Service (subscription required). Quote: " ...hearing in February by the Onyx Spirits Company of Oakland Avenue in East Hartford...tasting of our moonshine in the Onyx Spirits Company facility. Currently, if a...or liquor store owner visits Onyx Spirits Company, they are not allowed to taste..."