User talk:Dravecky/Sandbox/Itzacon

This article was nominated for deletion on 13 December 2011. The result of the discussion was delete.

Getting started

Any referenced information on Itzacon 1 and 2 would be very useful to this article and greatly appreciated by me. Indeed, any editors who can expand this article, the Stellar Occasion article, or any other article about a defunct Texas sf convention are eagerly welcomed. All too often the articles for current conventions are maintained as mere gateways to their official websites while the historical context is ignored or forgotten. While this article makes several references to UnCommonCon, a short-lived but ambitious convention that started in 2000 and failed in 2001, an article fleshing out these details and including a few photos should be a priority before the sources are lost or forgotten. - Dravecky 16:21, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As an advertisement

The article reads as an advertisement. As such, I edited it. My edits were undone; so I tagged it. My tag was removed. This article, as writen, functions as an advertisement for Phoenix entertainment. Please do not remove my tags. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.149.40.189 (talk) 02:05, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article has recently been the subject of repeated anonymous vandalism and the last "advertising" tag was added by an IP user who initially signed the addition apparently impersonating User:Sandstein. Having personally written this article for an essentially defunct convention I'll confess that I'm biased but I don't believe that it's written as an advertisement. In any case, I've replaced the deprecated text with the proper {{advert}} template and suggest that a neutral third party review the text. - Dravecky (talk) 03:33, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that your definition of "vandalism" is anything that isn't complimentary toward Itzacon and Phoenix Entertainment including mentioning a very relevant competitor. YuleCon is now run within a few weeks of when Itzacon used to occur and only 20 miles away. Your censorship of my original edit only benefits Phoenix Entertainment. I also suggest that a neutral third party review the text and that my original edits at 08:40, 5 December 2008 be reinstated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.104.35.54 (talk)

Your edits were a mix of unsourced speculation and weasel words, unsourced attacks ("As a result, Itzacon 6 is often referred to as "Shitzacon" by regular conventioneers."), and an odd thesis that a general interest science fiction convention last held in 2004 did not return in 2005 because of a start-up anime convention that held its first event in December 2008. - Dravecky (talk) 17:16, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]