Talk:The Dana Girls

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The titles in the series need emphasis. The dates of publication need wikilinks (and any of the titles that might have articles in the 'pedia). Normally I'd do this type of wikification, but I don't have the energy right now. Anyone else? —Frecklefoot 16:36 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I added the last wikilinks Theophilus88 20:41, 2 August 2005 (UTC)Theophilus88

FWDixon/Finnan is a spammer and plagiarist with more than 100 links from Wiki to his web site to sell books thru Amazon.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.205.13.193 (talk • contribs) 12:39, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

• See discussion with anon about links in question here. ∞Who?¿? 19:32, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

See [[1]] for discussion about User FWDixon/Bob Finnan's link spamming and plagiarism.

More on the link spamming and commercial advertising. Example http://hardyboys.bobfinnan.com/hbpb.htm is just a list of titles that all have links to Amazon. All of the books summaries were copied from Amazon. Every HB Digest title, Casefiles title, Clues Brothers title, Supermysteries title, Ultra Thriller title and so on has a link to Amazon and all summaries were copied from Amazon. Does that tell anyone something?

The links to The Unofficial Nancy Drew and Dana Girls commercial web pages are to two web sites owned by the same person. This is not consistent with the one link per site per article rule which has been agreed to on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Can we agree on that? If we can at least one should be removed and the other identified as a commercial site. 69.205.9.31 19:23, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

I cleaned up the intro, but there is much work to be done. Much of this content seems as if it may have been copied from a promotional or fan site, and might be under copyright. If I'm right about that, and we secure permission to continue to use the content, there will still be a lot of re-working needed. The emphatic use of caps and other advertising gimmickry in the text is tacky and unencyclopedic and needs to be eliminated. If someone is using this article to promote his own commercial or status-seeking agenda, that will need to be curbed as well. --Jpbrenna 03:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

The second series of hardcovers from the 1970's went out of print about the time Harriet Adams switched publishers for the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew to Simon and Schuster. The Danas are mentioned as being friends of Nancy's in volume 58 of that series, a plug for a planned paperback series, that failed to take place. They have been out of print for over 15 years, but a new series is set to be reintroduced in 2006 or 2007. Considering the popularity of girls school plots in film and television in the 1980's, it is likely that a new series would have been popular. Will the Danas be cool in 2006?

The above type of content is totally unacceptable. This is sheer promotion, not an encyclopedic description of the series. There is little discussion of the characters except when mentioning inconsistencies that might make a certain edition more valuable to collectors --- pure commercialization! This article needs a complete rewrite, and I'm adding a neutrality tag until it receives one.--Jpbrenna 04:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite

I removed most of the original article content, as it was either extremely poorly written and unencyclopedic, of suspect copyright status --- or more usually, both! I have read the earlier books in the original series, but not all of them, so I can speak as to how the characters develop over time. I haven't seen any of the later, modernized versions so I could use some help there too. If you're contributing, Please find good sources and write your own content --- don't do a copy/paste dump from some crummy fansite! --Jpbrenna 05:24, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:49, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Assessment

As requested on WikiProject Children's Literature, I have read this article through for assessment and agree with the current rating of C class. To improve, I suggest you rewrite the Characters section to avoid in-universe perspective, and extend the article to explain the plot of the series as a whole, or of individual books within the series. If you have any comments or questions about this assessment, please leave them at my Talk page. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 16:19, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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