Talk:Grand Comic-Book Database

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I have noted the comment that this article reads like an advertisement. This is my first article for Wikipedia, and I would appreciate any assistance in tweaking the style to meet the standards here. I was attempting to inform people of the history and operations of, and data available on the Grand Comic-book Database, with appropriate links to other similar databases.

- Don Milne

• EF replies: maybe one thing the wiki admins would like is that "easy to use and understand, easy to retrieve information from, and easy for people to contribute to." be shortened to "easy to use and easy to contribute to."?

Thanks for the thought EF; I will rework that some. - Don Milne

Because the person who originally posted the {{advert}} tag offered no further details, and no one else offered agreement, during an entire day the tag was up, I deleted it as an opinion no one shared. - Don Milne —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DonMilne (talk • contribs) .

As the wording of the tag stated, it was placed on there because the article "read like an advertisement". I would not have particularly expected a huge amount of other users simply posting "I agree", the done thing would be to expect others to disagree with this tag when improperly used, rather than the other way round and I could argue that no-one else has offered agreement with your opinion to remove the tag. In any case, it would be good practice to allow longer than "an entire day" in which for other Wikipedians to even notice this article and formulate an opinion. The first version of this article sounded very advertisement like, even including an email address to contact, and I think I was therefore wholly justified with my use of the tag. Also, I believe User:Perfecto had commented that the content needed to be changed away from the text of your website. However, I think you have done a good job in improving the content of the article over the last day, and it no-longer reads significantly like an advertisement so I am happy for the tag to stay removed. For future reference, please visit WP:NPOV. Regards _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 14:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for the additional info. Sorry I had expected comments to arrive in too short a time frame, but I was judging from the speed of the initial comments. I will be hunting down some of the source material in the next few days, and add as I am able. A question: how does one cite sources that are not on the internet? Would I just include appropriate text, as there would be no link? I have been trying to add additional wiki links, and thank you for the ones you have added. 172.150.254.124 20:05, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

not a problem, I appreciate you are new here. I just happenned to stumble across the article when it was newly created, and took an interest. It is certainly evolving into a more encyclopedic article now. Regarding references, I would suggest you read the guidelines at WP:CITE for guidance. In essence, just as in a formal report, a title, author and publishing details of other source material would suffice, and help to back up the contents of the article. _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 22:08, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

PS: Wikipedia:Cite_sources/example_style gives a good example of reference citations. _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 22:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks to Cryptic for fixing my cut-and-past move, so the supporting discussions stay attached. DonMilne 13:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)