Talk:Gurley Novelty

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Gurley Novelty article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Business Low‑importance

	Business portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Business, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of business articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BusinessWikipedia:WikiProject BusinessTemplate:WikiProject BusinessWikiProject Business articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

References

I noticed this new article had a red tag for "Reflist missing" which is why no refs were displayed, but when I added it Wikipedia flagged two of the refs as being on the Wikipedia:Spam blacklist. I removed these and was able to save the page. - Ahunt (talk) 23:31, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've spent quite a bit of time trying to find reliable sources to support a variety of assertions set forth in the article, and have by and large failed. It is not that Gurley Novelty (aka Gurley Candles) was unknown, but that most of what one can find on line about it can be found only in message board posts, eBay descriptions and other anecdotal sources. I'm going to pare down the article a bit to conform it a little more closely to the two or three RS's that can be found (and to which I have access). If I overdo it, let's please talk about it here. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 13:29, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also - for the time being I'm going to leave in christmasnite.com as a source though I really have trouble seeing how it qualifies as an RS. I welcome any thoughts. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 13:30, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your changes seem pretty reasonable to me. We can't have a bunch of unsupported text. - Ahunt (talk) 13:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]