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[edit] Deletion and recreation of Webkinz

Someone deleted the webkinz page!!! I need help to fix it, so anyone with info, add it.--Technofreak90 17:05, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I thought pages could not be deleted except by an admin? If the page was taken down was there a reason for it? MrDenton 17:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the page was deleted on 23 October 2006 by Mike 7, who is indeed an admin. I did not have the page "watched" at the time, so I missed any AfD discussion, and thus don't know all of the reasons for deletion, but I had very serious concerns about the page myself. It was not written in NPOV style at all (which could have been fixed), and more seriously seemed to be a long How To on Webkinz. Hopefully, starting over from scratch, a better article can be written. I hope to make contributions here, too, starting some time next week. Pawl 18:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Good to know, I agree that there was too much stuff on the page. I would rather have a quick overview and then a section of things you can't find simply by going to webpage. For example I would love to start a database of secret recipes because my daughter loves that part of the game. But I never added that to the old page because there was so much stuff there already yet I didn't feel that it justified it's own page. MrDenton 17:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marketing hype?

This page sounds it was written by the company, and many of the features sound like they are being "hyped" (in a marketing sense), eg. "There are lots of fun ways to make Kinzcash on Webkinz World" or "This protects children from potentially inappropriate material, and prevents them from entering any identifying information." On the later point -- while I appreciate the effort to minimise risk, I think "prevent" is too strong a word here. I don't know what the word set is to choose from, but I presume someone can identify themselves in terms of analogies or descriptions based on visual features ("green house", etc.)

I think the article needs to be toned down a bit to be more NPOV. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.194.13.105 (talkcontribs).

It's worse than that. The whole article is a collection of cruft. It has been put together by a series of editors that do not appear to understand what wikipedia is intended to be and what it is not. I expect that the article will soon be "discovered" by someone interested in maintaining wikepedia standards and then deleted as it was a month and a half ago, and the cycle will start all over again. If I can find the time, I hope to do a cut at an encyclopedic entry for Webkinz, and let people see it before I attempt to replace what has grown on this article. -- Pawl 17:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Who wrote this? I checked the page as my sister had gotten one for Christmas, hoping to find out what on earth they are, but it is just a gaint add! Go on, own up author of this page! The page also needs more of an explenation of what these things are, not just what the website has. --TheMightyShoeHorn 20:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

The Toy Trends section needs a source, as it's written it sounds like either a shop owner or an ebay seller trying to drive up their prices. At the least it's just personal experience, I have not had any trouble finding the Webkinz that my kids want, and so far only 2 have been retired and could be considered rare. MrDenton 15:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleaned up

I've removed most of this article, as the content was an unencyclopedic disaster. I've left the cleanup tag on it, since it's been listed at WP:CU (by me, actually), but I've slapped the notability tag on it since there really isn't much of an assertion here. This article needs sources, not cruft. --Kinu t/c (éŕ) 20:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Still needs help editing

We need to know more about webkinz. This page laks informaton that we need to know.We need to know if this is a safe site. We need to know a bit more on what the site has and finaly we need to know what Lil kinz are.Po56 00:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Po56 (talkcontribs) 18:04, 13 January 2007 (UTC).


Lil Kinz are exactly the same as a Webkinz but 2 inches smaller. There are no "killers" on webkinz. This was a rumor and on webkinz.com you can find a public announcement that states that this was just a rumor and untrue. Julie 19:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)