Talk:Lostpedia

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 * Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at WP:LEAD. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.
 * Per WP:WIAFA, Images should have concise captions.
 * Per WP:CONTEXT and WP:BTW, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006, but do not link January 2006.
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 * Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.

Lostpedia' is a web based, engaging advertisement?
No, it's not. It's an independent wiki. ABC did post a clue on lostpedia, but that doesn't make it an ABC site. What would make you think the site is an ad for the show? --Milo H Minderbinder 14:19, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed. The citation for all of this is an advertising article . I can't read the full text of the article, but it appears to be talking about ABC's official wiki and the Lost Experience. If it does claim that Lostpedia is run by ABC, it's at odds with the creator, and ABC's practises for all the other sites in the Lost Experience.
 * The recent edits also add copyrighted screen captures of Lost, for which there is no fair use rationale - we're not discussing anything in the pictures, only that these pictures "were on lostpedia". The edits also claim that lostpedia "was recognized as one of the five basic Internet activities a "Lost" fan must engage in to keep abreast of a "closed world where only the initiates feel welcome."" - while this is a reference to Lostpedia, it's an indirect reference in a satirical piece on Lost fans. In this case, "was recognised as..." is an overly ironic way of making the reference. Perhaps instead, you could say "Contributing to Lostpedia is considered a regular activity for the stereotypical Lost fan".
 * I took out most of the edits until they can be shown to be accurate - I put back in an edit that said Lostpedia gained "notoriety" in a German newspaper, even though it doesn't say what the controversy actually was - the paper's online search function can't find any mention of Lost in the website or the print edition for the past year, never mind on the specific date of September 11, 2006 (which is the same date as the Advertising Age reference) - I'm assuming good faith and presuming the online search function of Stuttgarter Zeitung isn't working correctly. 62.31.67.29 15:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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 * The site is an engaging advertisement for Lost as identified in the advertising article references from Advertising Age and other sources that were cited by me (and deleted(!) by 62.31.67.29). Here is the footnoted lead I posted which was deleted even though the deletion was based on the failure to "read the full text of the article" -- Jreferee 16:23, 21 November 2006 (UTC):Lostpedia is a web based, engaging advertisement for the multi-platform Lost Experience which, in turn, is based on the ABC drama show Lost. While somewhat difficult to quantify, Tom Lowry of Business Week called Lostpedia "a replica of online user-generated Wikipedia, that is dedicated solely to all things Lost." In particular, Lostpedia receives content from Lost fans and provides detailed synopses of Lost episodes, Lost character biographies, and other wiki articles that may relate to all things Lost.
 * http://forum.lostpedia.com/showthread.php?t=1
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 * http://lostpedia.com/wiki/DJ_Dan_September_24,_2006_Live_Podcast_Transcript/Part_1#Segment_1
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 * http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Lostpedia:About
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Theory_policy&oldid=112705
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Theory_policy&oldid=153479
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Use_of_Images
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Use_of_Images&action=history
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Blacklisted Links Found on Lostpedia
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 * http://forum.lostpedia.com/showpost.php?p=2178&postcount=5
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 * http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Lostpedia:About
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Theory_policy&oldid=112705
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Theory_policy&oldid=153479
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Use_of_Images
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Use_of_Images&action=history
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Image:Lostpedia_glyph.jpg
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Portal:Interviews
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Blacklisted Links Found on Lostpedia
Cyberbot II has detected links on Lostpedia which have been added to the blacklist, either globally or locally. Links tend to be blacklisted because they have a history of being spammed or are highly inappropriate for Wikipedia. The addition will be logged at one of these locations: local or global If you believe the specific link should be exempt from the blacklist, you may request that it is white-listed. Alternatively, you may request that the link is removed from or altered on the blacklist locally or globally. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. Please do not remove the tag until the issue is resolved. You may set the invisible parameter to "true" whilst requests to white-list are being processed. Should you require any help with this process, please ask at the help desk.

Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:


 * http://forum.lostpedia.com/showpost.php?p=2178&postcount=5
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 * http://forum.lostpedia.com/showthread.php?t=1
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 * http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Lostpedia:About
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Theory_policy&oldid=112705
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Theory_policy&oldid=153479
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Use_of_Images
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Lostpedia:Use_of_Images&action=history
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Image:Lostpedia_glyph.jpg
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 * http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Portal:Interviews
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