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Dana Girls question

How (and than what) is The Dana Girls series "more accurate"? --Calieber 22:12, Oct 27, 2003 (UTC)

I edited that bit. Left a note on your page. Thanks! -- Sitearm | Talk 21:39, 2005 August 23 (UTC)

Concur with removal of external link

Per Wikipedia external links guideline, I concur with removal of the external link The Unofficial Nancy Drew Home Page as constituting advertising. Please do not add this link back! -- Sitearm | Talk 17:26, 2005 August 23 (UTC)

I disagree. I visited the site in question and found it informative and concise. Please leave that link alone in the future.--Flonga 20:10, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
I disagree. The site has no value and the web page owner IS a link spammer. 152.163.101.9 15:38, 2005 August 23
NOTE: User:152.163.101.9 is an IP address used by an unknown person to leave comments. -- Sitearm | Talk 00:15, 2005 August 25 (UTC)
May I recommend you create an account to log in for discussions? Anonymous contributions and discussions are OK but a registered username avoids confusion of your input with that of other users coming in on that IP address. -- SitearmTalk 21:36, 2005 August 23 (UTC)
The "advertising" on the site in coincidental to the wealth of information provided therein. If you wish to continue discussing this issue you should really register as a user. As it stands now you just seem like an anonymous crank with a personal axe to grind.--Flonga 23:03, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Flonga has less than 20 edits - all concurring with interests of FWDixon--PhilipO 02:02, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

Flonga is a FWDixon/Bob Finnan sockpuppet. See [[1]] for discussion about User FWDixon/Bob Finnan's link spamming and plagiarism. User:64.12.117.9 11:36, 2005 August 24

NOTE: User:64.12.117.9 is an IP address used by an unknown person to leave comments. -- Sitearm | Talk 00:12, 2005 August 25 (UTC)

This user Finnan is a link spammer who has more than 100 links from the Hardy Boys and all of the different Hardy Boys series and titles, Tom Swift, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Grosset & Dunlap, X Bar X Boys, Radio Boys, Edward Stratemeyer, Harriet Stratemeyer, Nancy Drew, and on and on. This should not be allowed. 205.188.117.68 13:06, 2005 August

NOTE: User:205.188.117.68 is an IP address used by an unknown person to leave comments. -- Sitearm | Talk 00:12, 2005 August 25 (UTC)

For this article the link removed is not an essential contribution. For your other concerns may I recommend you create an account to log in for discussions? Anonymous contributions and discussions are OK but a registered username avoids confusion of your input with that of other users coming in on that IP address. Thanks! -- Sitearm | Talk 18:21, 2005 August 23 (UTC)

I consider the link in question advertisment and it should be removed. --PhilipO 02:02, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

  • Why then, one might ask, would you leave the link to the Simon & Schuster site? A site which is purely commercial and exists for the sole purpose to sell their books! Aren't you being just a tad hypocritical?--FWDixon 22:07, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Unless Simon & Schuster are the publishers, remove that link too, that's what I say. --PhilipO 22:28, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Consistent Nancy Drew categorizations

I noticed two categorizations being used on the book articles: Category:Nancy Drew and Category:Nancy Drew books. I think the second category is too detailed for this specialized topic of interest. The first category covers what's needed for now. -- Sitearm | Talk 03:19, 2005 August 25 (UTC)

Page history check

  • The Simon and Schuster link was added by User:Bevo 12:32, 2005 January 11 with the link label Nancy Drew titles with current edition cover art. The article text said: in the early 1990s, a new series of books were created for Simon & Schuster, under the new epithet The Nancy Drew Files. I checked Bevo's user page and as far as I can tell Bevo does not work for Simon & Schuster. So a reasonable assumption is that Bevo added the link as a verifiable citation for a fact stated in the article text.
  • The first addition of the Bob Finnan fan site link was by User:4.236.54.116 on 06:18, 2005 June 19. Checking contributions for User:4.236.54.116 shows that the Bob Finnan fan site link was added to a total of 72 Wikipedia article pages. A reasonable assumption is that this was a deliberate act of link spamming.

More on the link spamming and commercial advertising. Example http://hardyboys.bobfinnan.com/hbpb.htm is just a list of titles that all have links to Amazon. All of the books summaries were copied from Amazon. Every HB Digest title, Casefiles title, Clues Brothers title, Supermysteries title, Ultra Thriller title and so on has a link to Amazon and all summaries were copied from Amazon. Does that tell anyone something?

Yep, tells us you're lying! Here's a link to Amazon's Ultra Thriller page (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671756613/ref=nosim) and not a summary to be seen. Ditto for everything else. BTW, thanks for all the links to my site, I'm sure it will increase readership! :)--FWDixon 14:21, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Oh Really? Lets try a few just on the Undercover Brothers.

Extreme Danger (#1) - 4/05

Finnan: Mission: To find the mastermind behind a possible attack at the Big Air Games.

Amazon: Mission: To find the mastermind behind a possible attack at the Big Air Games.

Running On Fumes (#2) - 4/05

Finnan: Mission: Investigate and determine the power behind a possibly dangerous Utopian community with potential plans for criminal activity within the oil industry.

Amazon: Mission: Investigate and determine the power behind a possibly dangerous Utopian community with potential plans for criminal activity within the oil industry.

Boardwalk Bust (#3) - 4/05

Finnan: Mission: Investigate and put a halt to the recent rash of jewelry store robberies. Potential danger on the ground and in the air.

Amazon: Mission: Investigate and put a halt to the recent rash of jewelry store robberies. Potential danger on the ground and in the air.

You only plagiarized SOME of the summaries?