Talk:GameTZ.com/Archive 1

message: Someone (Perfecto) marked this article as being an advertisement, and not being objective.  In truth, this article was written by several users of the site in question, and not the site owner.
If you've got specific gripes with items that you think are not objective, please be more specific with them.  Until then, I'm reverting the changes you've made.  The people who worked on this tried very hard to keep this from becoming an ad.  In truth, the site does not operate at a profit, and is more of an on-line community anyway. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dstumme (talk • contribs) .
:While I agree that the intent was not advertising (as I was one of the GameTZ site members who helped write the article), I can see how it could be read as advertising copy. The article needs to be rewritten to a more neutral point of view in order to more acceptable to the Wikipedia commmunity. --nihon 23:02, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm glad, Nihonjoe, you see it the same way. -- Perfecto 01:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Only in that any article about any website is advertising. This one just happens to use more advertising-style prose than most. It was written to let people know about one of the oldest trading/barter sites on the web. Since it's been around in one form or another for almost 10 years, it's certainly worth writing about. --nihon 02:49, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Advertising?

message: I've reworded several parts of the article to remove or replace wording that sounds like advertising copy. I've also marked the article as needing more references as the current two don't cover everything. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Care to add some 'citation needed' markers?  I can probably find cites for most of it, but I'm not sure what needs citation.  I'm guessing the GamePro reference at least? Dstumme 20:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Marketing speak

message: In order to avoid this article being nominated again, I think we should try to find more articles (online or offline) in which GameTZ is discussed prominently. If anyone can find anything, please post it here so we can make this article even more verifiable since there are obviously some editors here who don't think three solid refs are good enough. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:53, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More references

message: As expressed numerous times, this article does not effectively meet WP:N. Please discuss ways to improve this issue here. The main focus of previous AfD discussions seems to be with references from Landsing State Journal and the syndicated television coverage. Both have raised concerns as being trivial mentions. None of the other references, no matter how many, seem to feature much significant coverage of the subject. 216.163.40.100 01:34, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: SPA SashaNein 12:59, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, these seems to be a leftover comment from the last attempt at deletion from this sockpuppet. Dstumme 13:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerns regarding article notability

message: Based from the except I get retrieve from the search engines, this article is nothing more then a trivial reference to the subject. Since the section it was being used as a source was also backed up by a different source, I figured there was no harm in removing it. --Farix (Talk) 01:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed reference