notability
Regarding notability: many Wikipedia articles reference find-a-grave's website. The find-a-grave website is by far the highest ranked website of its type. Notability really isn't a problem here.
On the other hand, this article could really benefit from some reliable, neutral, 3rd party sources. Think along the lines of mainstream or industry press articles focusing specifically on find-a-grave.
Lastly, leave out the fan-cruft. Folks who want to know all of find-a-grave's options can simply click on the website link and find out. What this article should focus on is the website's significance. How has it impacted society? What is it good for? - those sorts of things. There are good and useful answers to these questions. We just need to make sure the article contains them - sourced. Rklawton 17:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
i just don't see how crappy editing relates to notability. if that were the case we'd be left with just a dozen or so articles. if the goal of the placarding is to improve the article, it seems to me that the citations is sufficient to accomplish that goal. --emerson7 | Talk 05:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- Looks plenty notable to me. Johntex \ talk 23:34, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
3 popups
This site is pretty overloaded with pop-ups, one of them tries to install an "online" player. There should be a policy for adding websites with so many popups and ads. That's not quality for a reliable encyclopedia article. ► robomod 16:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
References
I've added several references which can be used for inline cites from: The Guardian , 14 July 2004; Los Angeles Times , 26 August 1997; The Orlando Sentinel , 12 July 2001; The Philadelphia Inquirer , 1 August 2005. Apart from The Guardian , all are subscription access, but the free extracts from the articles have a fair amount of material. Voceditenore (talk) 17:51, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Criticism removed
I removed the following section:
My reason for removing it isn't that I disagree with it, but that the paragraph contains a) a legal opinion, b) a statement about a specific family's wishes and what Find-A-Grave did with that, and c) a personal attack. All these are without sources. a) and b) can be re-added if adequate reliable sources can be found; c) has no place on Wikipedia. --Alvestrand (talk) 08:55, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Information on the site is often unsourced. Someone I know has been trying to get inaccurate burial information removed for a person but has hit a brick wall with the requests. So I would be sceptical about any unsourced information on the site i.e. if there is no exact date of death and burial and no exact burial place then it is probably a guess and can be ignored. --jmb (talk) 11:52, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Capitalization question
Someone's moved this article from Find A Grave to Find a Grave, citing "MOS" (I assume Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters), but can't see it speaking directly to mid-name "a"). I don't agree - no matter what common usage of capitalization in proper names is, the website uses a capital A in describing itself, and I think it's reasonable to follow this usage unless we can document extensive usage with the other capitalization. Comments? --Alvestrand (talk) 10:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- Per the website, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=whois, it is referred to as "Find A Grave" in several spots. Let's use what they use as they are the ultimate answer, and not spend time WP rule warring. 06:36, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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