Talk:Fawcett Publications

Untitled
As of May 13, '05 absoletly none of the edits in this article's history have the 'edit summary' field filled in. Please provide a brief comment for each edit that isn's marked as 'minor'. ike9898 20:33, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Prathervanish.jpg
Image:Prathervanish.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 04:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Automatic addition of "class=GA"
A bot has added class=GA to the WikiProject banners on this page, as it's listed as a good article. If you see a mistake, please revert, and leave a note on the bot's talk page. Thanks, BOT Giggabot (talk) 05:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

GA SAweep&mdash;delisted
In order to uphold the quality of Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of June 2, 2008, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR. Ruslik (talk) 07:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

The reasons:

1) The lead it too short. It should be 3-4 paragraphs long.

2) There are few citations in the text.

3) Many references have only titles and weblinks, some of them are dead. The information about publishers, authors, date and years of publication should be provided as well.

4) 'The Fawcett family' section contains a large extract from 'Notes on the Fawcett Family' of Roger Fawcett. However this extract is long for a simple quotation and may have copyright problems. It is not even properly atributed because the ref 8 is dead.

Ruslik (talk) 07:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I've added more references and more info in references. For "Fawcett Family" I have added two references directly to Travis Fawcett, who is the sole source of the "Fawcett Family" ms. (which may have been published only on the Internet and without a copyright). Pepso2 (talk) 11:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Replaced Whiz Bang Cover
Replaced the Non-Free image of Whiz Bang cover with high resolution image of cover in the public domain.

Mnhs (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC).

Gold Medal Books
It seems inappropriate that the Gold Medal Books section of this article is twice as long as the Gold Medal Books article (and gives a "Main Article" reference to that smaller article). -R. S. Shaw (talk) 20:31, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Acquisition and recent history
The following sentence from the section "Acquisition and recent history" does not make any sense: "In 1972, after licensing Captain Marvel and featuring him in new stories, DC Comics purchased the Marvel Family and related characters in 1991." I think I know what it means, but not really knowing anything about this subject, I don't want to try fixing it and be wrong. Sahasrahla (talk) 01:52, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I added "entire" to fix. Pepso2 (talk) 10:39, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That helped. The real problem is with the years, though.  The sentence says both "In 1972, after licensing Captain Marvel and featuring him in new stories, DC Comics purchased the Marvel Family and related characters" and "After licensing Captain Marvel and featuring him in new stories, DC Comics purchased the Marvel Family and related characters in 1991".  I've stayed away from trying to fix it because I don't know whether it happened in 1972 or 1991, or it should be two different sentences, or...  Sahasrahla (talk) 19:20, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Now two sentences. Pepso2 (talk) 20:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: Notes on the Fawcett Family by Roger Fawcett (1970). Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)

For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, providing it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:08, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Fawcett family
Shouldn't this whole section be moved to Wilford Fawcett? Or maybe that page should redirect here? As it is, the article for the person has almost nothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.230.232.119 (talk) 18:15, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Fawcett Publications. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100703014426/http://www.allanguthrie.co.uk/pages/noir_zine/articles/paperback_originals.php to http://www.allanguthrie.co.uk/pages/noir_zine/articles/paperback_originals.php

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 23:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 5 external links on Fawcett Publications. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20050403171003/http://www.breezypointresort.com/index.html to http://www.breezypointresort.com/index.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20061010072105/http://user.dtcc.edu/~dean/interview.html to http://user.dtcc.edu/~dean/interview.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101229022700/http://buzzlaw.net/ to http://www.buzzlaw.net/
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070206123612/http://www.donpendleton.com/richard_prather_interview.htm to http://www.donpendleton.com/richard_prather_interview.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070705184116/http://www.donpendleton.com/prather_bibliography.htm to http://www.donpendleton.com/prather_bibliography.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 23:06, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

"Forced to abandon"
I'm realizing that I shouldn't be editing this page due to a conflict of interest (my company publishes reprints of the Whiz Bang.) However, recent edits say that Fawcett was "forced to abandon their superhero comics characters" following the lawsuit, which is not in the text. They were basically forced to drop the Captain Marvel books, yes, but they chose to sell off the other ones. I've never seen any claim that the lawsuit forced them otherwise. It should be simple enough to say that they left the comic book market after losing the lawsuit. --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:31, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You're right, I seem to have read the "forced" part of it into the material I picked up from elsewhere and from the article here on the lawsuit. I'll fix. Largoplazo (talk) 17:45, 10 March 2019 (UTC)