Talk:Q&A comedy website

Article listed on Votes for deletion Apr 14 to Apr 20 2004, consensus to keep. Discussion:


 * This page no longer gives an accurate description of modern Q&A based on the academic literature being published. Specifically, I think this page should be edited to address the setting in of Yahoo! Answers, Answers.com, answerbag, etc as dominant Q&A websites. 216.160.52.84 (talk) 01:41, 20 September 2008 (UTC)dmoy
 * Why? -- user:zanimum
 * Keep, the Q&A-style website is a fairly well-defined format, and quite popular. (Popular enough to spawn close to three dozen clones and derivitives over time.) --cprompt 15:46, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Note, cprompt is its author. -- user:zanimum
 * Keep Q&A website, redirect The Conversatron to it. The Conversatron isn't really encyclopedic by itself, but Q&A websites are a moderately notable internet phenomenon. -- Cyrius|&#9998 16:47, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. In a world beseiged by questions, even off-the-wall, non-sequiteur answers in a totally different language can help make the difference between chaos and pandemonium. Denni 03:57, 2004 Apr 17 (UTC)

I'm infamous!
You forgot to mention me, the most retarded individual in the Q&A community! Why, I had the entire readership and administration of TMoL sort of annoyed. Also, you need to enter more info about my upcoming sex change.

-Kojiro


 * Bullshit, you never annoyed me. Not One Of Us 12:29, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Touche. --Koji 04:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

It is very misleading that the Wikipedia article on Q&A websites is:

"A Q&A website is a website where the site creators use the images of pop culture icons to answer input from the site's visitors" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mortense (talk • contribs) 10:18, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Q&A website is broader
It is very misleading that the Wikipedia article on Q&A websites is:

"A Q&A website is a website where the site creators use the images of pop culture icons to answer input from the site's visitors"

It is broader. Yahoo Answers, Stack Overflow and answers.com are examples of what is conceived as being Q&A websites.

--Mortense (talk) 10:21, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Agreed, this is painfully outdated
Years ago "Q&A website" might have referred to this. Today the term refers to something completely different. In fact, elsewhere on Wikipedia sites like Answers.com and StackOverflow are referred to as Q&A websites. This page is like having a page "computer" that defines it as a person who carries out calculations, but makes no mention of what the term has come to mean more recently. [disclosure: I work for Answers.com] GilR (talk) 09:32, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure many people refer to the type of site you mention as a "Q&A website" - the Answers.com page uses the phrase but doesn't link to this article, the StackOverflow article doesn't give the type of site a name, and I don't see any confusion in the pages that link to this article. From the existence of Category:Knowledge markets, it seems that "knowledge market" may be the more common term for sites like Answers.com. I'll add a hatnote to this article. --McGeddon (talk) 16:16, 4 July 2010 (UTC)


 * It is not only the sites themselves that use this term. The printed magazine Technology Review ("was mass-marketed to the public; and was targeted at senior executives, researchers, financiers, and policymakers") ran this article in 2006: What's the Best Q&A Site? We put Yahoo Answers, Amazon's Askville, and rival question-and-answer services to the test.. --Mortense (talk) 16:01, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Rewrite attempt
I want to get started to become a contributor to wikipedia and would like to rewrite the article. Before I get started I'd like to get some input about whether there might be other articles under different names which cover the topic already in order to avoid to put a lot of effort into producing a duplicate.

I found List of question-and-answer websites which I'll link in the article. Zgh (talk) 15:09, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

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