Talk:Aylo/Archives/2015

Advert Template Seems Inappropriate

Re. advert tag added 12:33, 8 March 2015, I respectfully disagree that the article is written like an advert.

The Template:Advert documentation states:

"When to use

Add this to articles that need help from other editors because they sound like advertisements. For example, they may tell users to buy the company's product, provide price lists, give links to online sellers, or use unencyclopedic or meaningless buzzwords.

The advert tag is for articles that are directly trying to sell a product to our readers. Don't add this tag simply because the material in the article shows a company or a product in an overall positive light or because it provides an encyclopedic summary of a product's features." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Advert

Whilst the article lists many MindGeek websites it does not cast them in a negative or positive light (other than in some cases to mention their level of popularity, which seems like it would be useful to know), in fact it says very little about the sites themselves and does not link directly to them. I think it is appropriate information for readers to understand the scope of the company, and listing the websites amounts to a list of the company's brands. All references use archive URLs, and only 2 references of 59 refer to existing (live) sites owned by MindGeek (mindgeek.com and pornmd.com), (neither of those 2 pages contain pornography or link directly to something that can be purchased).

The article does not tell readers to buy the company's products, or provide price lists, or give links to buy the company's products. It does not appear to me to contain meaningless buzzwords. Even if this were the case I doubt that it applies to the whole article and the {{Advert|section}} tag would be more appropriate if such a tag were necessary (which I don't think it is).

For the record I have no connection with MindGeek. Humanlike174 (talk) 00:41, 26 March 2015 (UTC)