User talk:Hiddenart

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My thought was that details of the first DVD to be sold in the shop wasn't strictly relevant to an article on the Foundation; it belongs in an article on the DVD, if one were to be written. If it hadn't involved commerce, the irrelevant detail wouldn't really have mattered, but as it is (and especially given the length of the article, and thus the relative size of this section) it seemed to me too much like advertising. I don't mean to say that that was your intention, but that that was the effect. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 08:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mel,

Many thanks for the response. I take your point about the relative size of the section in relation to the whole article.

I also agree with what you wrote about Wikipedia increasingly becoming a series of online 'puff piece'. Having said that, as it remains informative, along with IMDB, it continues to be a frequently used site for me.

As you suggest, a page should be created (and I'm sure will be soon enough) for the Growing Up In The Universe DVD.

Someone other than you had previously deleted my text with the slightly charmless, 'spam - delete!'. I have to say that being descriptive about a series of Richard Dawkins lectures on a Richard Dawkins page differs greatly from my idea of spam and the nature of the spam I receive. :-)Hiddenart 09:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it was being descriptive about a DVD being sold in a shop, in an article about a foundation. The information might be OK at Richard Dawkins, in a "publications" section.

Incidentally, you deleted someone else's message from my Talk page; I'm not sure why, but please don't. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 19:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mel,

For some reason, the message was attached to my message to you. It didn't seem to be for either of us, was written in text shorthand and didn't seem to make any sense. I'm sorry if it was a legitimate message for you, but I didn't understand why it was a part of the email I'd submitted.Hiddenart 00:09, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inexperienced users sometimes just add their message to the bottom of the page, without making a new section. In such cases, it's best to mention it to the person whose Talk page it is, so that they can deal with it if they haven't noticed it. Anyway, not to worry; it's sorted out now. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 12:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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