Talk:Grand Comic-Book Database

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Contents 1 Advertisement 2 CBDB 3 Template 4 Inducks 5 moving some info to Comic Book Database page

[edit] Advertisement

I have noted the comment that this article reads like an advertisement. This is my first article for Wikipedia, and I would appreciate any assistance in tweaking the style to meet the standards here. I was attempting to inform people of the history and operations of, and data available on the Grand Comic-book Database, with appropriate links to other similar databases.

- Don Milne

EF replies: maybe one thing the wiki admins would like is that "easy to use and understand, easy to retrieve information from, and easy for people to contribute to." be shortened to "easy to use and easy to contribute to."?

Thanks for the thought EF; I will rework that some. - Don Milne

Because the person who originally posted the {{advert}} tag offered no further details, and no one else offered agreement, during an entire day the tag was up, I deleted it as an opinion no one shared. - Don Milne —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DonMilne (talk • contribs) .

As the wording of the tag stated, it was placed on there because the article "read like an advertisement". I would not have particularly expected a huge amount of other users simply posting "I agree", the done thing would be to expect others to disagree with this tag when improperly used, rather than the other way round and I could argue that no-one else has offered agreement with your opinion to remove the tag. In any case, it would be good practice to allow longer than "an entire day" in which for other Wikipedians to even notice this article and formulate an opinion. The first version of this article sounded very advertisement like, even including an email address to contact, and I think I was therefore wholly justified with my use of the tag. Also, I believe User:Perfecto had commented that the content needed to be changed away from the text of your website. However, I think you have done a good job in improving the content of the article over the last day, and it no-longer reads significantly like an advertisement so I am happy for the tag to stay removed. For future reference, please visit WP:NPOV. Regards _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 14:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for the additional info. Sorry I had expected comments to arrive in too short a time frame, but I was judging from the speed of the initial comments. I will be hunting down some of the source material in the next few days, and add as I am able. A question: how does one cite sources that are not on the internet? Would I just include appropriate text, as there would be no link? I have been trying to add additional wiki links, and thank you for the ones you have added. 172.150.254.124 20:05, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

not a problem, I appreciate you are new here. I just happenned to stumble across the article when it was newly created, and took an interest. It is certainly evolving into a more encyclopedic article now. Regarding references, I would suggest you read the guidelines at WP:CITE for guidance. In essence, just as in a formal report, a title, author and publishing details of other source material would suffice, and help to back up the contents of the article. _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 22:08, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

PS: Wikipedia:Cite_sources/example_style gives a good example of reference citations. _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 22:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks to Cryptic for fixing my cut-and-past move, so the supporting discussions stay attached. DonMilne 13:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CBDB

Someone has set "CBDB" to redirect to this page. I do not know enough about editing pages to change this; but GCBD and CBDB are different and unrelated databases of comic book information, and should not be linked in this manner.67.21.184.95 03:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. the CBDB and GCBD are 2 different websites, and one should not redirect to the other. DemonWeb 22:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

After 8 months, I have deleted the redirect.24.165.188.30 13:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

And yet, Wikipedia recreated the redirect!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.165.188.30 (talk) 00:07, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

It was automatically reverted as blanking of pages raises flags. I notice Comic Book Database redirects here and yet we have the Big Comic Book DataBase too (and there are others out there like the Comic Book DB and CBDB) so my preferred solution is to redirect CBDB to Comic Book Database and turn that into a disambiguation page. If that seems like a good idea I'll sort it out. (Emperor 01:53, 4 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Template

Following discussion on the Comics project talk page I created a template to allow links to the GCDB to be more easily inserted: {{gcdb}} - this doesn't mean it should necessarily be hammered into every page but if you do find it useful then this should make linking easier and more flexible. (Emperor 13:34, 22 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Inducks

Maybe the article shall mention that it has integrated data from other databases, like Inducks? Herve661 (talk) 15:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] moving some info to Comic Book Database page

At the moment there is only a disambiguation page under the name Comic Book Database. I think it should be expanded into an individual article, since the topic is important enough. It would be a great place to present it's history and to compare, introduce and give information on international databases also. Since this page contains a lot of information on comic book databases in general, I guess these would fit better over there. I do not know what's the ethical process on actions like that, so I thought it would be best if I brought up the issue. Zoli79 (talk) 11:49, 14 February 2008 (UTC)