Talk:Information Please
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Full disclosure: I work for Information Please. I've also been a user and editor here for some time, and I'm committed to Wikipedia's principles, including NPOV and Wikipedia articles are not advertisements. With that said, this article is a bit of a muddle as written. Unless there are any objections in the next day or so, I'm going to be bold and do a bit of restructuring, but I'm also going to account for it here.
As it stands, this article is primarily about the Information Please radio show, hosted by Clifton Fadiman, with a couple of sentences strewn here and there alluding to the Information Please Almanac, Infoplease.com, and Fact Monster. It seems to me that
- the print almanac deserves more attention than one sentence (see World Almanac for the treatment of a comparative work),
- this article isn't the place for it, and
- furthermore, the websites have nothing at all to do with the radio show.
I think the most straightforward solution would be to confine this article to the radio show (mentioning the print spinoff only insofar as it was a sign of the show's popularity and influence), and create Information Please Almanac for the almanac.
(The name of this proposed article is taken from the pre-existing link on List of almanacs. The current full title is the TIME Almanac with Information Please, and a redirect from Time Almanac would not be amiss, but I'm willing to use the historical name for the main article.) -- Shmuel 15:54, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- I agree that a separate, stand-alone Information Please Almanac article is necessary as the primary purpose of the Information Please article is to focus on both the long-running radio series and the short-lived TV show of the same name and format, and the greater separation from the almanac on this article, the better (and unless you were an employee for the radio or TV show, I'd doubt there'd be any conflict of interest if you'd wish to restructure it for clarity. On the other hand, we'll need to be careful about redirecting Time Almanac to the proposed Information Please Almanac as in the 1970s Time magazine sponsored a Time Almanac that was published by Hammond (after the almanac had the name of New York Times Encyclopedic Almanac, CBS News Almanac, and one or two others that escape me now). B.Wind 00:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
