Talk:Biographicon

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A fact from Biographicon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 11 April 2008.

[edit] Advert tag

The paragraph about Wired Campus and Ars Technica seems like an advertisement to me. I understand the purpose of that paragraph, but it seems a bit like promotional material. There's nothing too overtly ad-like on here, though, so if you want to just remove the tag, that's fine. I won't press the issue. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 16:47, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

They were the only reliable sources on Google News; I needed them to assert notability. As the quotes do not say anything approving, I'll remove the tag, but feel free to rewrite anything you take issue with, or add unfavourable views from other reliable sources. Thanks, Skomorokh 16:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Looked at website

I looked at the website. It looks like they are bumming their information off of us, in my opinion. Of course, so do a lot of other websites. Chris (talk) 20:25, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Chris - this is Ethan Herdrick from the Biographicon. You are correct that we have pulled a ton of data in from Wikipedia. We make mention of that for each biography, like this: http://www.biographicon.com/history/7jj0x/Rick_Astley No, that link doesn't go to a video! ;) Herdrick (talk) 01:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How do they make money?

I assume the people running Biographicon are trying to make money, but how are they going to do so? There's no advertising, no donation buttons, nothing. Anyone know? 202.81.18.30 (talk) 03:14, 5 May 2008 (UTC)