Talk:Towleroad

How to end this redirection and re-establish separate Towleroad page. Has NOT been personal blog for 6 years. Multiple contributors and a trusted news site now.

It's not clear why the entry for our site was disappeared and all queries for it redirected to Andy Towle. Andy was the founder and continues as the primary voice on the site, but over the past six years Towleroad has been much more than his personal blog. It's become and maintained it's position in the top 2 most consulted and trusted news sources anywhere.

Since 2006, Andy and i have been equal partners in all aspects of running and owning the site, though my profile is significantly lower. We also employ a significant number of weekly contributors and draw on an even larger pool of occasional ones, all of whom continue to contribute to and are part of what Towleroad has grown into.

Certainly that all took off from the voice Andy created and continues to perfect, but these days we have  4 weekly columnists in law, film, music, and theater. We have a daily round up post by our junior blogger; seasoned blogger Andrew Belonsky has covered the sites postings most Thursdays for the past few years, and we have had a few different bloggers covering blogging duties on Saturdays and Sundays.

I can't figure out why this was done in the first place, but bottom line is that by any measure it is inaccurate and does not provide the information about the site that one would reasonably expect to find if one went searching for Towleroad in Wikipedia. Andy influences all the editorial, and his is the predominant voice and he writes most posts 4 days a week, but to say that the writers on the other three days and the ones contributing columns are irrelevant to the site isn't appropriate.

We'd be happy to work with someone and are happy to provide access to whatever documents or third party reporting might be interesting in getting an appropriate entry done, one that obviously credits Andy, but also recognizes the sties growth, success and range of voces that are having an impact on the userbase and the gay community (theree a ton out there. In addition to third party analytics, there's also been recent reference in publications including Newsweek, Washington Post, New York Times, New York Magazine, and many others.). Let me knwo what i might do to move this forward. I found the support documents not totally clear on whether it's appropriate for us to transparently submit something in this situation, so thought i would post here. if that is preferable, just let me know.

Thanks for your attention to this. I do appreciate it.

Michael Goff

CEO, Towleroad/AskTell media.

Mgtlrd (talk) 09:04, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Hello? Anyone around to help? Trying to respect the ways of Wikipedia as i know them, but this is causing more and more issues for us since Google is using Wiki references. I am assuming there just aren't enough volunteers for this section and will give it another few weeks after leafing messages on various talk pages and getting zero response. At that point i'm just going to update the listings as it's clear just about every other gay media seems to have done. If someone is willing to give us a hand at correcting the three entries, i will do all i can to make it easy and to provide many more links than you'll need to let you pick some that seem most appropriate for the style and venue. I don't mind doing this, but it seems there are more people pushing the rules than ones here to help follow them. i can't imagine the scope and amount of work, but i hope you also recognize that this is important and if Wikipedia is going to have it out there, should have it as accurate as possible. many thanks in advance for insight and help. Michael — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgtlrd (talk • contribs) 05:42, 22 March 2013 (UTC)