Talk:Personal advertisement

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Contents 1 Policy on External links to personal ads sites 2 related websites 3 Useful resources 4 abbreviations

[edit] Policy on External links to personal ads sites

We need to agree on which sites, if any, to list in the external links section. There are thousands of sites doing personal ads, and we can't list them all. We had the same debate over at online poker some time back.

My suggestion is to remove all the links, and have internal wikilinks to articles on specific sites instead. Like Adult FriendFinder and other sites notable enough to have their own wikipedia article. This is an easy and simple rule to enforce and we avoid having to argue with each and every site owner trying to push in a link to their site in this article. Let them instead prove their interest in wikipedia as well as their sites notability by having them actually write a wikipedia-article about it that survives on VFD.

I'll be removing all the external links now, but if the general consensus here is to keep some or all of them, then fine, put them back. But we need to agree on a policy here. Shanes 19:48, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Acutally, I think we already had an informal consensus of what links were to be kept. Each newly added link, has been checked for content and notability, and from what I have noticed, mainly only the mass link spam entries have been removed. <>Who?¿? 20:11, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why do we need a policy? It's true that this article is frequently a target of spam, but all the current links are OK. Spam gets removed quickly. Rhobite 20:15, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Ok, but what makes a site Ok and worthy of listing? i.e: What's the difference between spam and a legit listing? I just think it would be nice to have something to tell those having their link deleted why we delete it but are keeping all those other links. Shanes 20:30, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It's the same criteria as with an article, the site is visited, and if it's some small little site with no history, then chances are good it will be removed. If there is one user posting the same link on several articles, its link spam. Not to mention, we put in the edit summary why the link was removed. <>Who?¿? 21:16, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ok. Sounds a little vague and prune to borderline cases to me (in the case with articles we do have the VFD process). But I really dislike people trying to invent problems where there are none, and as I'm starting to feel like that's excactly what I'm doing here, I'll just back off now. Sorry. And, of course, feel free to revert my link-removals. Shanes 21:43, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] related websites

I converted the external links to italicized text, for example purposes, and to aleviate link spam. <>Who?¿? 02:18, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Useful resources

A JSTOR search brings up a number of hits on "personal ad(s)". Some titles in case someone is interested in writing a proper article eventually:

• Catherine Cameron; Stuart Oskamp; William Sparks, "Courtship American Style: Newspaper Ads", The Family Coordinator 1977
• "Racial Steering in the Romantic Marketplace", Harvard Law Review 1994 (I can't see an author's name on this one)
• Bonnie Auslander "In Search of Mr. Write", College English 1993
• Theresa Montini; Beverly Ovrebro, "Personal Relationship Ads: An Informational Balancing Act", in Sociological Perspectives 1990
• Stanley B. Woll; Peter Young, "Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right: Self-Presentation in Videodating",

Journal of Marriage and the Family 1989

It's an interesting topic, and there is undoubtedly much more. I just grabbed a few. Uppland 18:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] abbreviations

What does "ski" mean?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.139.230.56 (talk • contribs) .

What context was it in? Could it mean the ski in skiing? — EncMstr 19:17, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

No, it is constantly used on Craig's List, and it does not mean skiing.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.139.161.58 (talk • contribs) .

I searched Seattle, Portland and S.F. area craigslist ads for ski: it always meant the literal sport. However, in the New York listings, it appears to be used about half the time associated with cocaine, as snow is slang for cocaine. For example, a snow bunny could mean a female cocaine user. A more blatant ad says got some excellent snow, good wine, and hopefully good company to ski with. The article needs updating as this isn't an abbreviation, but code or slang. — EncMstr 17:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)