Talk:O-Pee-Chee/Archive 1

Archive 1

Wantlists

Posting wantlists is innappropriate use of wikipedia. Libro0 04:24, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Article improvements that could be made

Hi. I read through this article and added a few headings, and did some minor sentence restructuring, mostly in the baseball cards section.

There are a number of small things that could be done by people knowledgable in the area to improve the article. Since I really don't know much about trading cards, I can only suggest areas that to me seem like more information would be useful. I'll list some that occur to me, but I'm sure there are other areas I haven't thought of.

• The lead section could be expanded by about another paragraph. Of course before I messed wit things the lead was huge, but that was because it included the whole hockey section. The lead should be a summary of the entire article, in case someone doesn't want to read the whole article, but still wants to know about the subject. So short summaries like "o-pee-chee produced bubble gum and baseball trading cards from XXXX to XXXX, and also produced hockey trading cards (and gum) from XXXX to XXXX." Or a description that "while o-pee-chee was a candy company, they only produced bubble gum and trading cards" (if that is true, I don't know). There should be a note about whether they are still in business.
• I am a little confused about the relationship between o-pee-chee and Topps. Was it just a marketing relationship, or did one company own part of the other one? And how did the sale to Nestlee fit in? What effect did the sale have on things, if any?
• In the baseball card area, there is "until the end of baseball card production", but there is no mention of when that was. Definitely should be stated there.
• Several year's sets were "fully branded o-pee-chee". How were the other sets branded?
• Trading cards are collectables. It would not be amis to state this, and to have a section mentioning that they are traded around, and the relative values of various years' sets, and how they might compare for collectability with sets from other companies (if there are any). This shouldn't be the article to go into depth on card trading, or even o-pee-chee card trading, but a few paragraphs would be relevent.
• It says in the lead that o-pee-chee is a candy company, but the only mentions of candy are baseball card gum and being bought by Nestlee. Is this all there is to it? Were they really a gum-and-printing company and not a candy company? Or is there a whole story that could be told about the candy business and notable products?

Loren.wilton (talk) 06:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)