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[edit] Don't delete the Fashion Blogs article!

In the Wikipedia entry on blog, there are links to Political Blogs, Travel Blogs and Law Blogs.

Fashion blogs have been around since 2001, and fashion bloggers as citizen journalists were invited to this year's New York Fashion Week. A Factiva search reveals newspaper reports on Fashion Blogs dating from 2002 in national mastheads such as NY Times and Washington Post.

This is a genuine cultural phenomenon and the author is compiling the research for the article.

You might not read fashion blogs, but millions of people around the world do. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mercurius (talk • contribs) 12:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC-8)

I looked it over again and also took a quick look at Political blog, and reviewed the reasoning given in the AfD. This article looks like it doesn't have the same concerns, so I'm removing the speedy deletion tag.
Oh, and sign your posts on talk pages :) -- Hawaiian717 20:26, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Hawaiian! Here comes the signature! ;) Mercurius 20:30, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Resurrected from Afd

To all quick-draw Wikigods out there - this article is NOT the same content that was rightly deleted under AfD guidelines back on 29 October.

This new, improved article draws together research on Fashion Blogs dating back to 2002 in national mastheads such as NY Times and Washington Post. Please don't delete it - it's no linkfarm! Mercurius 20:37, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New content added

New Wikipedian here, please be gentle!

I noticed there was nothing about fashion blogs here (although there's a link from the main fashion entry) and decided to help out since it's the one thing I know a lot that hasn't already been amply covered.

But I have a few questions.

1. The most verifiable evidence I have of the growth in the fashion blogosphere are Google search trend graphs. How would I go about posting this? Are the graphs themselves under copyright?

2. I read that external links are frowned upon, but it's taking me some time to find newspaper articles re each of the main things going on in the fashion blogosphere, all the main players etc. Can I leave a few links in where they're the only way to demonstrate a particular point right now and add proper references in later?

3. Is it OK to post a 'top 10 fashion blogs' list that's been published in WWD and some other big publications? It will eliminated the need for some of the other external links I've posted.

Thanks!

Sara.g.goldstein 20:58, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No external links section

I removed the 'external links' section of this page, and proposed that it stay removed to deter spammers.

I believe this page was deleted before because people used it as a linkfarm. After I started work on the current content, someone added a link to their own site within a week.

I believe that any list of external links to fashion blogs will be a magnet to people who want to add their own sites, so I re-formatted the article so this section is unnecessary. Instead, notable blogs are mentioned in relevant other sections, and I added a verifiable list of the Top 10.

Newbie Wikipedian here, so please be gentle if you disagree!

Sara.g.goldstein 06:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Linkspammers keep out!

It is clear from the page history of edits from about 28 Nov-2 Dec 2006 that this page has become the target of some people whose sole contribution is to place a link to their blog on this page.

Sometimes the "reference" cited is not genuine, or the description of the blog violates NPOV.

This is not in the spirit of Wikipedia.

If you have nothing to contribute besides your own fabulous self, please don't post it here.

If your blog is noteworthy or influential enough to attract mainstream media attention and a large following, then I'm sure it'll end up here "organically" in any case.

Yours grumpily, Mercurius 09:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed! Listen up, bloggers, this isn't anyone trying to mean and I'm sure you put a lot of work into your blog. However, this is not the place to promote your blog. The blogs that are mentioned here are mentioned because they are already well known and they've been in the news. If you can't at least cite a story about your blog in the media, then it probably doesn't have Wikipedia status yet. Keep blogging, get famous, and maybe someone will link to your blog from here for you. AliaGemma (talk) 19:43, 18 December 2007 (UTC)