Talk:Evite

Requested move

September 28, 2005:

Requesting that this page be renamed to "Evite" to since the name "EVite" was apparently an error.

• Support - I asked for it, so I should support it. Presumably the original anonymous editor from 24.9.113.28 supports it too, since they asked for the move in an edit summary to EVite: Need help changing 'EVite' title to 'Evite'. Mike Dillon 02:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
• Support. — Dale Arnett 21:31, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Fleminra 21:07, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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The name EVite was an error by an anonymous editor at 24.9.113.28 on August 4. That same user then started editing Evite on August 31 and left a comment asking for the article to be moved from EVite to Evite. Later on August 31, User:Aaron Brenneman merged the contents into EVite when they should have been merged into Evite. Mike Dillon 02:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Decision

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 10:25, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Externalization of links

External links to pages can be of competitors, provided they to have similar services. eBulawa.com definitely fits into External Links category. On top of that eBulawa is for Indians in particular and asians at large.

Regarding these three changes:

• Evite is comparable specifically to Yahoo!’s upcoming.org (which Yahoo! recently acquired). Evite is not really comparable to Yahoo! more broadly.
• Since Wikipedia has articles for Yahoo!, upcoming.org, and Meetup.com, it seems to me to make sense to link to them rather than directly to the external site; while the eventful.com and SureToMeet.com articles don't yet exist, creating the wikilinks to them may spur those articles' creation (see Special:Wantedpages).

—Fleminra 01:10, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. The "External links" section should only be for external links to pages about the subject of the article, not competitors. None of the removed links have information about Evite, so they don't belong in Evite's article. Mike Dillon 16:31, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Criticism

This section is way too long and biased. I am going to gut it to only things that are seemingly obvious or have citations, and are from notable sources. If you want to add them back, please add a citation, and make sure to avoid general statements that use weasel words. Rm999 (talk) 00:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Over a year later, and it's just as bad - I've just added the 'POV' template to the article. At least all the criticism is sourced now (I removed the unsourced comments), but I still think there's too much of it - criticism from blogs shouldn't be included unless they're particularly notable. I know nothing about Evite myself, so I don't know how fair all the criticism is, but I know the article doesn't look very neutral as a result. Robofish (talk) 18:48, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Read it like a commercial for Socializr! There are so many other party planner out there now that to only mention why Socializr is better is really biased. 192.75.101.57 (talk) 14:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:

This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:

1. There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
2. It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given
3. In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.

Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

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Added avert tag

Article reads much like an about page on the company's website. In fact, the first sentence appears to be taken directly from the company's website circa 2017. This seems to have originated from this revision, so I've reverted the first sentence to the revision before that. The user associated with the edit has only edited this page. There also seems to be some information lost, namely,

Evite was launched in 1998 by Stanford University student Selina Tobaccowala and fellow student Al Lieb. The website is a free, advertisement-supported service. It was acquired in 2001 by conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp. In 2010, Liberty Media acquired ownership of Evite from IAC. The company is based in Los Angeles.

The first sentence was all that I touched since I'm not confident in my editing abilities nor do I have much experience with this company.

Schobbish (talk) 19:49, 18 July 2022 (UTC) Schobbish (talk) 19:49, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

(self reply) It does seem like there is some conflict-of-interest editing going on. The first sentence in the revision I linked above was reverted by another user, but that was reverted back by a third user who has also only ever edited this article. Furthermore, that user uses the pronoun "we" to refer to the company in edit summaries. Not sure if it is appropriate to add {{connected contributor}} here, but a COI warning has already been added to both users' talk pages. Schobbish (talk) 08:35, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

References

usage

no sources in this section. Gertruda Low (talk) 11:33, 24 February 2023 (UTC)