Talk:Dumb Ways to Die/Archives/2013

Awards

Just won several awards at Cannes. [1] 149.135.145.68 (talk) 03:41, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Discrepancy in article

Under the "Campaign" heading the article states a reduction in near misses, cited by a news article (citation 4). In the news article they quote a Metro employee who provides that information. Under the "Effectiveness and unwanted repercussions" heading there is a conflicting statement saying that near misses have not changed (citation 32). This citation links to a Wordpress blog which only cites itself and a graph. And while the graph has a written source, there is no link to prove its validity. Following this is a sentence stating that the ad is a negative influence on train suicide rates, linking to another page which has no evidence for this and is no more than a speculative opinion piece. It seems to me as though "Effectiveness and unwanted repercussions" should be completely removed. Luminusjohn (talk) 18:32, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

I have removed the citation for the blog, which is not a reliable source. I have also removed the claim: "There have been 25-30 near misses every quarter for the past 9 quarters and the rate has continued generally unchanged during the campaign period." It is unclear which "past 9 quarters" and the graph on the blog shows figures outside that range anyway; perhaps it was meant to refer to an average, but the graph does not providing meaningful data since it only charts one quarter after the campaign started — and in any case, it is not a reliable source. —sroc 💬 01:19, 15 October 2013 (UTC)