Talk:BookRags

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New Company Information

The information that this Wikipedia page keeps reverting to is no longer accurate. See the "About BookRags" page for accurate, updated information: http://www.bookrags.com/about/. That's what I've changed the Wikipedia version to reflect. For instance, BookRags has been based in Seattle, WA since its sale to Ambassadors in 2008. Sdlizsmith (talk) 17:40, 22 March 2011 (UTC) Sdlizsmith (talk • contribs) 17:31, 22 March 2011[reply]

Thank you for the notice. I've updated the article to reflect the company's being based in Seattle. Your other changes have been reverted because they consist of copyright violations from http://www.bookrags.com/about/. These changes have also removed references and removed sourced sentences such as "BookRags was founded in 1999 by James Yagmin and David Lieberman, who recently graduated from college", replacing it with promotional content such as "... compiled from over 100 respected sources, including Thomson Gale, one of the largest publishers of educational information for schools, libraries, and universities". This addition violated Wikipedia:Neutral point of view.

If the article is inaccurate in any way, please suggest changes here, on the talk page, along with reliable sources that verify the additions. Unexplained removals of sources and sourced content will be reverted. Cunard (talk) 23:20, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some more minor changes (I hadn't logged in before doing so). I don't know how to verify that our editing process has changed and that we no longer have games or article editing, but that's all inaccurate information. You can search the site to see it's not there. I'm not sure how you differentiate "promotional content" from facts about the site. We do have a lot of content from Thomson Gale. Would removing the word "respected" from that sentence accomplish that? I understand you don't want duplicate text, so we can re-word that information to differentiate it from the About BookRags page. I also removed the screenshot of the homepage. If you visit our homepage, www.bookrags.com, you'll see that this is no longer accurate. I added in more facts about how much free content we have (157 titles) and cited it. Again, this is meant to be factual and not promotional. I also changed the number of study guides we have from 3,000 to 4,000. I'm not sure how to cite this as it's not specifically listed anywhere on our site. Sdlizsmith (talk) 18:52, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You also removed my reference to BookRags selling lesson plans. I'm adding that back in. You can see by looking at the featured product on our homepage that we sell lesson plans as well: http://www.bookrags.com/. Sdlizsmith (talk) 18:54, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you update the homepage screenshot? I'm not sure how to do that. If you have any questions or concerns about the changes I've made, please let me know how I can verify their accuracy. Thanks. Sdlizsmith (talk) 19:11, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Information on Wikipedia needs to be verifiable. If a fact is unsourced it must be deleted because Wikipedia does not publish original research. Each fact must be attributable to a source. Because you work for BookRags, perhaps you can update the information at http://www.bookrags.com/about/ or create another page on the website to include the details you have added to the Wikipedia article? Or maybe issue a press release (like this one) detailing the updates of BookRags' editing and writing processes?

The text on http://www.bookrags.com/about/ cannot be reproduced verbatim on Wikipedia because of the copyright policy. If you wish to use such material on Wikipedia, you can follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Contact us/Permit.

I tried to upload a current version of a screenshot of BookRags but have been unable to do so. I have restored the screenshot for now, as the image might be deleted if it is unused. Once I can find an updated screenshot of the homepage, I'll upload it. Cunard (talk) 11:06, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have now uploaded a better screenshot from http://www.webshotspro.com/gd/show.php/640x480/screenshots/2bbee2609abd235eb673a8e5deb2b0b6.jpg. Cunard (talk) 09:36, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unsafe warning

I came across this site while looking for information, but trying to open or download a study guide brings up an 'Untrusted Connection' warning from Firefox because the site security certificate is invalid. Is that sort of thing too commonplace or likely to be temporary, to mention in the article? (I haven't checked other browsers.) JWMcCalvin (talk) 04:08, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]