Talk:Tiraspol Times

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[edit] Ads

I didn't see any ad in Tiraspol Times in 3 months I've checked their website. Considering that Tiraspol Times editor was editing also Wikipedia as User:MarkStreet and User:Mark us street, and also as sockpuppets User:Henco, User:Esgert and User:Truli (sockpuppets now blocked) and Wikipedia is an important thing for TT editor, probabily he will see the criticism regarding the fact that they don't have ads and is unknown from where they took their money and they will publish some ads in future, just to conter this criticism.--MariusM 18:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

You are so wrong. Again. There are many ads in the magazines (which are publicly available and which they also send abroad if you subscribe) as well as online. Online, they are fewer. But they are there nevertheless. I visit the site http://www.tiraspoltimes.com several times per week to read the news. For at least the past 3 months (maybe more) they have had an ad for Spectrum Travel Company. It is almost on every page. It has the picture of a girl with face paint, and is an animated rectangular ad. It sits in the lower right corner of the page. One of the pages has a huge SPECTRUM logo. They also have other ads, but this one is the most visible. It is also the one that I remember the best, due to the girl with the face paint. - Mauco 00:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I followed the link several times during last 3 months and didn't see any ad. Not even today.--MariusM 02:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Then I guess that you are not doing your research well enough. I didn't see any ads on the frontpage either, but there are plenty of ads on a number of subpages. Some pages even have more than one ad per page. And here I found a picture of some ads from their weekly news magazines. - Mauco 02:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

...which I just clicked on, and it becomes larger. - Mauco 02:58, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I saw. If you click on the girl with printed face you arrived on visitpmr.com website. An other website with propaganda for Transnistria, as you know. All those sites are promoting each other.--MariusM 03:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, yeah. So before, you claimed that there were no ads. Now, when you "discover" that there has been ads for the last 3 months or more, you disqualify by saying that they point to propaganda sites. CORRECTION: Visitpmr.com is a travel website. It deals with tourism information. It is developed jointly with the Spectrum Travel Company, which is a private travel agency based in Tiraspol. See http://visitpmr.com/about.html for source. The ad carries the logo and the name of the Spectrum Travel Company. I fail to see what the problem is. - Mauco 03:14, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Read: "The site is jointly developed by the PMR government and Spectrum Travel Company of Tiraspol, PMR". PMR government hired this company to make a site for promoting tourism.--MariusM 03:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

That is your interpretation. Do you have a source for this? I read that sentence differently. Anyway, I fail to see what the problem is. We are discussing whether or not there are ads in Tiraspol Times, and we have determined that yes, indeed, there are ads. An argument as to who developed a third party site can in no way have anything to do with any edits to this particular article. - Mauco 03:42, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Also, visitpmr.com often shows links to tiraspoltimes.com. You advertise me, I advertise you.--MariusM 03:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Not really. I noticed that they have a box at the end of some of the pages where they show news headlines. Right now, it includes links to tiraspoltimes.com, transdniestria.com and regnum.ru so I guess it is just a matter of which site carries the news at any given day. If you have any sources to document that this is not so, then please show them. Otherwise, your claim of reciprocity is just that: An unsubstantiated claim. Well, again, I fail to see what the problem is. There are ads in Tiraspol Times. Both online and in print. This has been proven and documented beyond any reasonable doubt. - Mauco 03:42, 31 December 2006 (UTC)