Talk:American Inventor

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Contents 1 Peter Jones link 2 "NPOV dispute [-American Inventor] 3 No need for italics 4 Pictures 5 Erik Thompson's Receiver Training Pole is NICE 6 biased judges? 7 Rights to the product/royalties 8 Second Season

[edit] Peter Jones link

The link to Peter Jones is wrong, in that the article about Peter Jones is a different Peter Jones. I could remove the link but is there some way to indicate that there is no current article about the Peter Jones in question?

I fixed that by changing Peter Jones to Peter Jones (businessman), which does not exist.

[edit] "NPOV dispute [-American Inventor]

Please report what is wrong with this article on this page. If you report what is wrong then someone will have to fix this. It is good to report what, is wrong so that the article gets more understandable.

• I reverted back to a previous version from a few days ago. User 205.189.97.202 (talk • contribs) inserted a lot of illegal copyrighted content onto the page. ErikNY 19:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Can you restore the page that was there today?

• Only if you want more legal action on Wikipedia. ErikNY 19:47, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I fixed some of the bias so the article looks a little less like an advertisment --Devnill 04:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks the article looks much better. FellowWikipedian talk 10:13 am 16 April 2006

I'm prepared to remove the neutrality tag unless there is objection. It appears any previous POV issues have since been resolved. Jeff Silvers 01:58, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree with this... I see no non-NPOV content on this page. --Jackson 04:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Did some cleanup, added category, removed stub tag, removed POV tag. It's now something of a bare-bones article, but it's NPOV. --John Nagle 05:17, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

In the "Overview" section, under "The Object", it says that "one of the inventors will receive $1,000,000 worth of business support, entrepreneurial counsel, physical resources, and prize money". Yet the show's promotion says the winner will receive one million dollars advance against royalties. Does anyone know which is correct?

Good point. How about checking it out and fixing the article? Also, please sign your edits on talk pages. Thanks. --John Nagle 20:34, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No need for italics

It is very annoying that every practically every noun, pronoun, and name are in ialics. Is "Simon Cowell" the name of something besides a human? No. So why is it in italics? You only need to put the title of something in italics. In case you don't know, this is italics! 71.57.4.30 02:57, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

It would be good if somone added more pictures of the show. When the article get bigger that would be good. Thanks. FellowWikipedian talk 3:18 pm 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I added a photo request to this page, as well as making it part of WikipediaTelevision Edu-Ward 21:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Erik Thompson's Receiver Training Pole is NICE

I HOPE IT BECOMES A #1 INVENTION SO I CAN BUY IT. THAT LOOKS REAL GOOD. AND WE HAVE TO HELP HIM GETTING HIS HOUSE AND GYM BACK..PLEASE

Erik Thompson's Invention was great. Someone will get him a patent. I guess we have to wait and see...because that was better than anyone's invention on that episode! FellowWikipedian 17:44, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] biased judges?

What do other people think about the choice of finalists in the show? I agreed that the final four products are great inventions, but are they really the best? I felt that the judges put a lot of focus on the emotion of the contestents. Especially the woman judge who always fell for those who shed tears in front of the camera, even when the product sucks. Also the minority background of the contestents play a big part too. Out of thousands of participants, the four finalists are two African Americans, one Latino immigrant and one Polish immigrant. Are the white Americans really that much behind in creativity and inventiveness? Kowloonese 00:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that too. FellowWikipedian 21:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, a lot of reality shows these days depends on emotion to win. It's whoever has the most tear-jerking sob story that'll win, not which invention is best. Reality shows suck!!! 205.174.22.28 04:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

This page is for discussing changes needing to be made to the article, not for discussing the show itself. Edu-Ward 21:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rights to the product/royalties

Someone wrote into Wired Magazine and said that if you win on American Inventor, the producers get the rights to the product (and therefore are able to keep the royalties that are made from it when it is sold), and that the prize is just considered an advance against royalties lost. I'm not sure if someone writing into a magazine counts as a source, but if someone is able to find another source, I think it deserves to be added into the article. Carpenoctem^(talk)

[edit] Second Season

In the event anyone else is wondering whether the show was canned due to the lack of official updates, I dug this up. Apparently by "fall/winter of this year" they meant "early spring of next year". ~ Eidako 21:27, 12 December 2006 (UTC)