Talk:Yahoo! Answers/Archives/2016

Wrong launch date
After doing a little research by doing through the articles edit history, I think that the supposed launch date, which is currently June 28, 2005, is false. As you can see with my sources, the date June 28, 2005 was just put in by random with no reference to support it. And going even further back, the supposed launch date was July 5, 2005, which was also wrong and un-referenced as well. And it's been wrong for over 4 years unfortunately...so I'm going to change the launch date to the referenced December 8, 2005.

Source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Answers&oldid=459897837 - first edit of the launch date being June 28, 2005 without a source https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Answers&oldid=324355839 - first edit of the launch date being July 5, 2005 also with no source either https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Answers&oldid=93951118 - the first use of December 2005

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.73.242.76 (talk) 01:53, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Edit: I think that I have found some reliable sources that supports Yahoo! Answers alpha release being June 28, 2005 and July 6, 2005 (one day off from July 5) respectively. I have found what are supposely the oldest Yahoo! Answers accounts, which were programmers when Yahoo! Answers was still in the alpha stage.

Source(s): https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=VNMHRIO7W2IKKVCTTH4W7RA6OU - Ofer's Y!A's account, which was created on June 28, 2005 https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=O3HSJ5K6TU52LBXAFTNGK5S7FI&t=g - Tim's Y!A's account, which was created on July 6, 2005 https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160329085942AAxPaf1

—173.73.242.76 (talk) 16:32, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * One day difference can be explained by timezone, of course. We should use UTC (but I can't get a proper timestamp from the YA interface right now). Nemo 20:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I doubt it's because of anything with timezones, as Tim's account was created on July 6, 2005 and my second source (first edit of the launch date being July 5, 2005 also with no source either) was edited to be launched on July 5, 2005, which is the editor's fault for putting it a day off. 173.73.242.76 (talk) 22:02, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120104011807/https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile to https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile#siteDetails?identifier=answers.yahoo.com

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External links modified
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I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on Yahoo! Answers. Please take a moment to review my edit. You may add after the link to keep me from modifying it, if I keep adding bad data, but formatting bugs should be reported instead. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether, but should be used as a last resort. I made the following changes:
 * Attempted to fix sourcing for http://news.com.com/Yahoo+launches+Q38A+service/2110-1038_3-5986483.html
 * Attempted to fix sourcing for http://answers.yahoo.com/?

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