Talk:Online bingo

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How does listing 2 online bingo sites count as references? Bingo Entertainment is not even a network - its games are on the Byworth platform! This is link spam. FeldBum 21:49, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

What are you talking about? They were refences used in writing the article. Calling it link spam is ridiculous. This is what Wikipedia is, an encyclopedia that summarizes and cites authoritative sources. Please refer to No original research and WP:CITE to understand about citing sources. Feel free to cite better/more authoritative/more specific references for article sections or anything you rewrite, but do not delete the sources used in creating substantial content in the articles. 2005 23:30, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

This article is riddled with errors and ommissions. No online bingo anywhere accepts Paypal. There is no explanation of chat games. There is no mention of how bingo network and multi-player bingo games actually work. Facts like "Bingo is now the most popular leisure activity in the UK for women between 20 and 25 years old" and "Online bingo is a multi billion dollar business" are not cited--and those facts are not found in any of the referenced sites. The information is quoted is general at best. This entire article needs a drastic rewrite, which I will do as soon as I have the time. As it stands now, that section is certainly spam. FeldBum 14:30, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

As I said, edit it to make the article better. Cite sources for important info, remove unsupported assertions like the 20 to 25 year old thing. Your comments on spam continue to make no sense since no matter what SOMETHING has to be cited as sources, but regardless the point is that if you think the article could be improved, then do so, including citing sources you use to write the content. Citing specifically is better, but generally is acceptable if you summarize general information. 2005 20:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

i found a few that take paypal. if you need me to cite let me know, but it seems like i am notable to site my sources for somereason because they keep getting deleted. ??

Spamming URLs in references, especially to make obvious points (some games that cost money have big prizes, while free games have smaller prizes...) is not appropriate. Additionally, Paypal refuses to take online gambling transactions, so if their is some odd site out there tricking them, that is an extreme exception, not a norm. 2005 02:32, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I will try and work spesific winnings figures so that it is not so obvious. That will add value. I can live without paypal on there and i will look into those sources. You are probably right.

We need to see if we can find some online bingo statisitcs because under the Bingo in the UK we only quote land based statistics.

I have added some bingo statistics from a survey which was undertaken by Parlay (the biggest bingo software provider) on behalf of Chit Chat Bingo. Chit Chat is part of the St Minver network which is the biggst pan european network. I cite Chit Chat Bingo so that people can refer or contact them for more information. Parlay are already reference in the page.