Talk:Dean Guitars

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replies: text: I notice that a rationale has now been added. Andrewa 15:04, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:DeanGuitars.png

message: Since this was tagged as an advert there's been a lot of edit activity, and I don't think the tag is relevant any more. 
There's still a lot of room for improvement, but there's no way the company would release anything like the current article as advertising! Andrewa 15:15, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Advert tag removed

message: Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a directory of lists (unless if this is a list article, which is not). I removed the holy long lists of designers and users as they become too excessively listy and contained non-notable users and designers. To editors, please create textual contents and improve this article to become the best encyclopaedia article about dean guitars. Dekisugi (talk) 12:13, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of list of designers and users 

message: This article is a stub and anyone with cited knowledge about Dean guitars should add to and expand this article.--Peace out (talk) 22:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This Article's a stub 

message: Could someone who's a credible editor (as opposed to a Dean fanboy) please at least fix those recent references?? Looks like that was done by the poorly-trained monkeys.Weeb Dingle (talk) 23:29, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: really needs overhaul

message: The "history" transitions smoothly from 1996 to 2015. This overlooks that it was pretty much DEAD for a few years in the 1990s, and overlooks interim ownership by Tropical Music.
That gap really calls to question whether Dean Guitars' "popularity surged" as asserted in the article, particularly as Zelinsky himself felt their big two-humbucker guitars were losing ground steadily to the "superstrat" fad. 
The current Dean Guitars has piggybacked itself onto the death of "Dimebag Darrell" Abbot. They currently offer like 42 (!!) Dimebag signature models. Of their 17 "artist signature" lines, fully five wave the "Dimebag" flag (the only artist with more than one series to his name). Weeb Dingle (talk) 00:37, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This article also seems to imply that the company was not famous until after Zelinsky sold it. But that's clearly not true. They were pretty big in the 80s. DavidRavenMoon (talk) 01:24, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: what about The Collapse Years??