Talk:Stanwell

PR, POV, Wikis and non-wikis

I'm all in favor of a well-written and informative article, and getting permission to reprint such an article from smokingpipes.com is all very well, but this defeats the purpose of a wiki. Essentially we now have an article that represents probably no more than one writer's point of view, and seems very likely to have come from the Stanwell PR Department in the first place.

Even if it means losing the pictures in favour of contributors' own (and I'd be happy to start), I think this should be re-written from multiple sources. It would benefit from an impartial tone, cross-references to information about other brands and styles, and, above all, the ability for anyone with an extra nugget of information to add it.

78.45.1.3 15:03, 31 January 2009 (CST)

I agree on all this. But let's not loose this information and format until we have a decent article. Instead I'd suggest we simply move it, and link to it from the more typical open source article. You will find many articles here on Pipedia are like this. It was a good way to start the project. We also have permission to use the Smoking pipes images in a collaborative article as long as we credit them, so that's not a problem. --sethile 20:13, 31 January 2009 (CST)