User talk:Mindme/Dogma Free America

notability

1) the podcast has a solid track record of having on notable guests (politicians, authors, and leaders of notable organizations). If notable people are giving up precious time to be interviewed on a podcast, it is likely because they view the podcast as notable.

2) the podcast is a top ten podcast in its category

http://www.gokorea.info/nonrand/df5.jpg

3) A metric itunes uses for notability is the number of reviews the podcast has received.

Here are a couple notable podcasts:

http://www.gokorea.info/nonrand/df3.jpg http://www.gokorea.info/nonrand/df2.jpg

You can see these notable podcasts have garnered 25 reviews

Dogma Free America has garnered 44 reviews

http://www.gokorea.info/nonrand/df1.jpg

4) The podcast has over 50 shows

5) The podcast has 6,220 google hits:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enCA275CA275&q=%2B%22dogma+free+america%22&btnG=Search

Over 40,000 yahoo hits:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkl2uoGNI_O0APw9XNyoA?p=%2B%22dogma+free+america%22&y=Search&fr=my-myy&ei=UTF-8

6) Cited in this press release:

http://www.atheistalliance.org/library/news_021707.php —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mindme (talk • contribs) 13:32, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cited on Richard Dawkin's page:

http://richarddawkins.net/article,1534,The-Out-Campaign-Interview-with-Josh-Timonen,Dogma-Free-America-Josh-Timonen

Cited by the skepchick blog:

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=1162

Cited numerous times on the skeptics guide to the universe message board:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enCA275CA275&q=+site:skepchick.org+%22dogma+free+america%22+skepchick

Cited on the Center for Inquiry's forum site:

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewthread/3387/#28745

Cited on James Randi's forum

http://forums.randi.org/archive/index.php/t-78306.html

Suggestions

Only thing it looks like this really needs is the addition of the above before moving into mainspace. However, there are some other things that I'd like to see fix't as well, but they shouldn't preclude a move before they are fix't. First, only the lede is currently wikified, so wikifying the rest would help. Second, it should be looked over a few times to make sure everything is written in a neutral tone. Third, the "Accents" section doesn't appear very important. If this is true, removing it wouldn't hurt the article and may actually help it. That's what I can see from my first glance at it, but it looks pretty good to me. Cheers. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 14:07, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I commented out the accents section. It is a interesting quirk of the show, however, I'm not tied to the section. Also made the non lead sections a more neutral tone. Mindme (talk) 17:00, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dead tree media

Dogma Free America has now been mentioned in dead tree media, The Moose Jaw Times Herald to be exact. The article can be found here. I'll see if I can use it as a reference for some part of the article later. --Ole Eivind (talk) 01:03, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]