Template:Did you know nominations/Girls' games and toys

Girls' games and toys
Created/expanded by OttawaAC (talk). Self nom at 19:31, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ... that girls demonstrate a longer loyalty to characters in games and toys marketed towards them?



Comment
 * Not an expert on the subject; source is an institutional blog, which
 * Hook okay, but, as an aside, I was rather more surprised to find out that the world's largest Barbie doll store is a six-floor building in Shanghai. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:22, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Good to go. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:22, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Close paraphrasing concerns. Examples: "One recent study showed a marked preference for pink among girls and women in different cultures" vs "one  recent showing a marked preference for pink among girls and women in   different cultures"; "Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, has shown that the age group called "toddler" began as a marketing gimmick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s" vs "Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing gimmick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s". Nikkimaria (talk) 17:04, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Item #1 is now in quotation marks, Item #2 is rephrased. You say "Examples".......are there others that you haven't mentioned? I will need to address them ASAP if there are any. I've checked through the article and the issues with close paraphrasing seem to be addressed with those two revisions. OttawaAC (talk) 01:32, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

The source is short account what appears to be an "industry journal", which doesn't explain or give any justification of its assertion that girls hang onto favorite character toys longer, and no other sources. (Presumably, the average/median length is somewhat (how much?) longer ....) It is not a reliable source, even as journalism. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 00:23, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Closing as rejected, no movement here or on the article in the last 7 days. BencherliteTalk 17:42, 28 November 2011 (UTC)