Talk:Jenna Jameson/History

Some notes on the development of the Jenna Jameson article.
 * Started as a 1-liner in 2002, with the content: "Jenna Jameson, born Jennifer Marie Massoli in Las Vegas on 9 April, 1974, is an erotic actress and perhaps the most famous of her generation." Edit summary: 00:35, August 22, 2002 User:Robert Merkel (stub - I'm sure this will get quite a few hits :))
 * Quite a lot happened to the article between 2002 and 2006, but I don't know the blow-by-blows. Perhaps someone else will fill in the main points.
 * On July 15-16, 2006, User:Joe Beaudoin Jr. archived the article talk page, and started afresh with "What do we need to do to make this a Featured Article?". His motivation is described at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Porn stars#Wikipedia 1.0 prep work.
 * The article state before I started serious work on it: 11:44, August 15, 2006. Already a reasonably respectable article, not a stub, with several pictures, a biography section of 20 paragraphs, averaging 2 sentences each, a filmography, a trivia section, and 11 citations (I added 4 in an earlier edit).
 * After 3 days work citing, rewriting, and reorganizing: 17:21, August 17, 2006 - 28 paragraphs, 3 sections + 2 sub-sections, 41 citations of 24 sources. That was my answer to Joe's point "3. Is the article factually accurate with proper citations to verifiable and reliable sources? No. There is some attempt at adding external links to sources and footnotes, but both are inconsistent and we do need to stick to one format. I would definitely recommend footnotes. "
 * Multiple contributions from various people, including an impressive quantity of vandalism and reversion followed. Anyway, by 01:54, October 26, 2006, I fulfilled most of Joe's other points, moving the points in the trivia section, replacing images with better ones and fair use justification, fleshing out the introductory section, tightly citing the extravagant language and controversial sections. The one thing I had trouble with was "flow" - I kept hacking away at that for a few more weeks, then decided that I had to get opinions from other reviewers.
 * November 14, 2006 - Peer review/Jenna Jameson/archive1: Emx ran the peerreviewer bot, and Trebor Rowntree, Yannismarou, MLilburne, Badlydrawnjeff, LuciferMorgan made a lot of excellent constructive and encouraging comments. Chidom and Tabercil helped edit, besides countless invaluable others who reverted continuous daily vandalism.
 * 22 December - gets Good article award!
 * On December 31, Rosenzweig started weighing in, first on my talk page, then on Talk:Jenna Jameson, starting with contradictions with the autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, then about issues with the article in general. Tabercil helped me resolve his issues, but just asking the questions was very useful. Changes since then were mostly due to responses to these comments.

Contradictions

 * brother lettered Heartbreaker tattoo?
 * NYT says first cover Hustler 2003?
 * Oxford debate - attended or not?
 * Best seller for how many weeks?
 * Penthouse by age of 20?