Talk:Etsy

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 5 September 2019 and 16 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): BAHX.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 20:55, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Just wrong
I just finished a Wall Street Journal article about the company increasing its fees from 5% to 6.5% effective last Monday (11.April.2022). This contradicts the claim that items are listed for $0.20, in spirit if not in fact. (It may or may not be true that an item is "listed" for 20 cents (20 cents per hour? per day? week? month? year? indefinite??) but if they charge 6.5% and if most items are tens to hundreds of dollars, then that token fee is (mostly) irrelevant.) It should be removed from the lead. The article also mentioned the problem Etsy is having managing the "mass-produced" goods that it's sellers sell. So, it is certainly *not* true that etsy doesn't sell "mass-produced" goods. 207.155.85.22 (talk) 21:32, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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Etsy's technical/engineering aspects
Etsy hosts a rich development blog talking about the internal workings of their platform, engineering, improvements, developments, etc. Would anyone be opposed to me creating a technical section to talk about Etsy and its engineering? I think it would be WP:DUE despite perhaps having niche secondary source coverage due to just the scale of Etsy's operation as an e-commerce platform that must address technical challenges to service its customers and merchants.

I would say its encyclopedic and fitting to Wikipedia. Other technology company articles like Facebook, Netflix have it (though netflix's is small). I am finishing up Reddit's with what little they have on their development blog.

This would be a fairly large contribution so I wanted some opinions first. Fuser55 (talk) 04:02, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Conspiracy Theory Notability
This edit added a sentence about users on Twitter speculating that some listings were coded messages related to child trafficking. I'm not sure why this is included in the article. The source it cites (Media Matters) calls the claims "baseless" and it appears to be a niche phenomenon that quickly died out.

I can understand covering conspiracy theories about major historical events like the Kennedy Assassination or 9/11 as a way of understanding how the public processed them, but it seems inappropriate to include what amounts to a handful of people making wild accusations for a few days on social media before moving on to something else. This is supposed to be a neutral, informative article about the company, not a dumping ground for everything anyone has ever said about it. Beanwich (talk) 16:39, 2 February 2024 (UTC)