Talk:Contarex

Contarex issues
Hallo Jan von Erpecom,

I can see at once that you are highly knowledgeable about historic cameras, and that you have taken great care to be accurate and clear in articles such as Contarex.

However, ... there are some issues about the construction of Contarex (article) that I believe need attention. I hope you won't mind if I'm very brief about them.

1) The lead section should summarize the rest of the article, without adding claims of its own. (Therefore, it generally does not need to be cited.) However the lead in Contarex talks about Zeiss Ikon - not the subject of the article - and talks about other cameras. This may be good for background but is certainly not what should be in a lead (WP:LEAD).

2) Good sources are named in references 1..5, but these are not used in most of the body of the article, which remains uncited (WP:V).

3) Articles are supposed to avoid describing instructions (WP:HOWTO), but a substantial part of the article is very close to being instructional.

4) The article style is largely that of an expert explaining a complex topic, as when a skilled engineer gives a technical but "chatty" talk: in short, it feels like 'original research' (WP:OR). It feels very far from the usual tone of the encyclopedia, where each fact is neutrally stated (WP:NPOV), and supported by a citation.

I believe these issues apply also to other articles such as Nikon F, Exacta, Kine Exacta, and no doubt many others, so I suspect this list of issues will seem somewhat unwelcome, for which I apologize. However, given the accumulation of Wikipedia policies in recent years, it is probably appropriate to consider them now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:07, 15 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I'v provided new txt as pr above.--Jan von Erpecom 14:40, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

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Need some current and period data
Cameras like these and their bits are commanding pretty good prices, and it would be helpful if there were some links or other data to collector type pages, with maybe a chart to excerpt key data like "sold new in 1960, for $80. Current collector value lists from $128 to $899." Perhaps there could be or is a Wikipedia project for collector photography or related to standardize this? I'm sure there is precedence. Comments? --Xgenei (talk) 10:09, 26 August 2017 (UTC)