User talk:SarcasticDwarf

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Contents 1 re "IMDB for books" 2 references 3 Wikipedia:User categories for discussion on -isms 4 ibookdb

[edit] re "IMDB for books"

In regards to your claim that it is strictly POV, see http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1343205. It was essentially around that time that the term was used on a regular basis.SarcasticDwarf 12:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the link. The article clarifies things, and I can withdraw my comment from writer's point of view. However, from the slashdot's article I can only derive that it was the creator of the site who self proclaimed his work to be the "imdb for books" while the remainder of the slashdot community continued to refer to it as such. Meanwhile, many other sites that catalog books existed prior to that. Examples, again, include bibliophil.org launched in 2001 with a much larger collection as we speak, and LibraryThing. -asmadeus 17:31, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The original owner may or may not have coined the term, I really have no idea. I think the important point is that the mentioned site is the only one known by that term (possibly based on the publicity from that article, I am not sure). Even if it originally started as a sort of marketing phrase, I think it has grown beyond that. And for future reference, I do not think LibraryThing can really be considered to be in the same class as far as content goes as almost all of its bibliographic data is pulled from Amazon (IIRC). SarcasticDwarf 00:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] references

book databases. You're the guy who knows about them. You find the references. I will otherwise leave them to their fate. I think I've done enough and argued enough. sorry I can not help more. DGG 09:02, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:User categories for discussion on -isms

Hi. A user category that you are in has been proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:User categories for discussion. You are welcome to comment. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:20, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ibookdb

I have no interest in registering with wikipedia. I only update when the stats have a difference of at least 1000. I also check iblist for their stats before updating. I have neither the time nor inclination to update the rest because I do not use them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.54.145.117 (talk) 18:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)