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[edit] Neopets the first petsite?

I remember when they first came out, and I was a member of numerous other petsites already. Perhaps it was one of the first ones to strike it rich, but one of the first to exist? Is there any documentation that can actually prove it? 216.67.47.49 03:44, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

This page as a whole needs major cleanup. Neopets wasn't the first virtual pet site, probably not even one of the first. There are tons more virtual pet sites out there that are worth mentioning. And the whole page needs much more info and doesn't sound very professional. I agree with you 100%. --Brain 03:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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Although I cannot find any documentation, I am almost certain that Zetapets is older than Neopets. I am not sure about Aftermathzone and Nutrinopets though, but I think those are older as well. Neosystems 13:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

--- I think the Subeta part in the artcle isn't neutral, bt I have no sources I can edit from. ---

The Subeta part is totally neutral, all of it. There's absolutely no Anti-Neutral-POV in it. 203.51.190.44 02:08, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

--- I was told by a Zetapets moderator that Zetapets was made AFTER Neopets, when the owner got tired of Neopets and created his own pet site. 69.92.33.74 20:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I doubt that Neopets was the first petsite, but it's one of the most famous right now...Michelle (talk) 04:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Articles about pet sites

I've noticed that the Neopets site has accumulated several articles on Wikipedia (including "Neopets", "Neopia", "Neopets, Inc.", and et cetera). I've also noticed that there doesn't seem to be any similar articles for other pet sites. I'm simply wondering why this is.

I'm presuming it is due to popularity, but I'm wondering. TheInfinityZero 16:48, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

It's because you can find independant articles for Neopets. For instance, a news article stating that Neopets' integration of advertizing into gameplay is immoral for a site that targets children makes it notable, because someone noticed Neopets. An article that says Gaia Online is a site with a virtual economy ZOMG makes Gaia notable. I don't know of any news article on Marapets at all, good or bad. If you do, link them and I'll use them to make an article.
We have to use outside sources, because we aren't allowed to do our own research. Spriteless 17:39, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] MY REVIEWS

I HAVE LOOKED AT ALL THE PET SITS I KNOW AND I THINK THE BEST,BY FAR IS MARAPETS AND NOE PETS USED TO BE BRILL BUT I THINK IT HAS GONE DOWN THE TOILET <-- Learn to Spell lol Marapets is going down the tubes.. 1 update a week???

[edit] Redoing

I need your opinions, do you think most of this article should be redone? Lots of it makes it based around certain pet sites (which helps with advertising). I think this article should be clean of certain talk. There are many sites out there, but lots of them are getting attention because of saying some of their sites on his article. Currency or pets for example.

We also do need some sources. Disconnect277 (talk) 03:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Links

Is it really encyclopedic for the Links section to point to a random message board and a link site? Seems to me that it would only serve to advertise those particular sites. I think it was much better as a list of links to the various sites. 66.211.18.216 (talk) 00:28, March 16, 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the links as none of them seem to meet WP:EL --NeilN talk ♦ contribs 22:16, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about adding the links, I felt it would be a bit more "fair". Having a list of the various sites was also somewhat a bad idea. That section was edited alot by users taking the sites they hate off of the list, and adding their sites they really like. Which also lead to advertising. I didn't want this page to be full of advertisements, so I decided to change the links to two sites listing those different links, but all of them without being overloaded, and advertising them. Plus they can't remove the sites they hate. Sorry NeilN. Disconnect277 (talk) 22:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)