Talk:Squidoo

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This is obviously an advert/spam. Marked for deletion.

THIS IS SPAMOLA CRAP and a FAILED attempt at trying to be the millionth article. Should be removed immediately!

I've undeleted this since it doesn't seem like a candidate for speedy deletion to me. It's not written like an advert, it was created by a genuine user with many other edits, and it's a notable website (Alexa rank over 4000). Angela. 23:23, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Angela. Yes, I was going for one million; however, I wasn't trying to cause controversy. Alex Krupp 00:34, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

It WAS written like an ad, but I deleted that part. Mocheeze 23:30, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad it hasn't been deleted. I did not know what Squidoo was, and this article was informative and useful. 137.161.244.253 (talk) 17:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Failed attempt at millionth article!

Since number 999,999 was deleted, this was the millionth article!

Actually, there more were deleted afterwards and probably more will be deleted in the future, too. But it's the first article that became 1,000,000th that counts. bogdan 00:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

This honour actually belongs to Jordanhill railway station. --Slgrandson 00:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• I have a feeling that, if this had been #1000000, the WikiGods would have changed the timetables so that something less commercial won.--M@rēino 00:26, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Pretty transparent attempt at free advertising. Ziggur 00:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

To clarify, I created the article. While Squidoo is a company, I am not an employee and do not stand to profit. Alex Krupp 00:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Don't stand to profit... oh really? Isn't that their business model? Share half of their revenue (after expenses and 5% to charity) with their users... ;) Not that it really matters, it is a notable article and should be in wikipedia anyway. Do you have a lense? Paul^C/_T+ 02:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I am a Squidoo user. However, all of the money generated during the beta test is donated to charity. Alex Krupp 02:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

WTH??

How come this is known as the 1,000,001st article it was created on October 10th? I don't understand, and I looked at it in March, and didn't see that prior history before. How was this accomplished? --Shultz IV 05:22, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

It was deleted and then recreated. Alex Krupp 13:56, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree that it should be removed. If non-profit organizations like www.oondi.com, which is similar in concept, can't have an article on Wikipedia, neither should a commercially oriented company. Ken

If it's nonprofit, it ought to be "oondi.org" instead of implying commerciality with a .com address. *Dan T.* 12:14, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Revenue up?

If the revenue is unknown, why does the infobox have a green "up" sign? Can I remove it? Kushal 16:55, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I've already removed it. Alexius08 (talk) 03:49, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Skimpy acknowledgment of Wikipedia extracts

One of the modules that anyone can include in a lens is Wikipedia. It reproduces either the intro to the WP article or a specified number of characters, and has an option of including what it determines is the main image. My "Porirua" lens is an example of the text presentation; I declined to include an image when I saw that it was bypassing the big location map in the infobox and choosing a flag of Australia from the sister-cities links.

The only mention of Wikipedia may be right at the end of the extract, in a link that invites readers to read the rest of the Wikipedia article. Squidoo readers would therefore get no indication of how to find the WP authors or even that the material is there under a slightly restrictive license. I'm sure it would be possible for Squidoo to incorporate more informative wording if WP requested it. Do any Wikipedia authors care one way or another?

Robin Patterson (talk) 03:31, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

As this does not involve discussion of how to improve our article on Squidoo, it might best be pursued elsewhere, such as the village pump. Regards, Skomorokh 03:39, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Criticism, spam on, for and via Squidoo?

No word on what role Squidoo plays in the black hat SEO, affiliate BS, traffic generating business, the spam and pseudo-lenses full of spam links? An article without that looks much like spam itself.80.171.57.121 (talk) 00:21, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Possible conflict of interest

The user MeganCasey has self-identified as a co-founder of Squidoo and made edits to this article. Although they appear to be mostly benign, this should be closely watched. I have left a {{Welcome-COI}} message on her talk page reminding of her about Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. Drm310 (talk) 19:22, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Shopping for a new Wiki farm

I am thinking about shopping for a new Wiki farm, with something that hasn't got such a steep learning curve, or where the tools are a little more intuitive. Further, having revenue come my way for once wouldn't hurt either. So why exactly is Squidoo mis-categorized as an educational site rather than a Wiki farm? And why is there no mention of revenue sharing? See Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. Knol for a better idea of what's going on outside the French castle. --TheLastWordSword (talk) 17:36, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Blocked

Why is Squidoo blocked? I tried to add a Squidoo page as a reference on Womanizer (song) and was blocked before I could do it. --38.104.189.46 (talk) 14:46, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

For some inexplicable reason, an apparatchik at Wikipedia decided to add Squidoo.com to the "blacklist" of external sites, preventing any articles containing the full URL from being saved. One way to foil the filter, at least partially, is by using HTML encoding for some or all of the punctuation in the URL. So,

http://www.squidoo.com/

becomes

http://www.squidoo.com/

which looks like this:    http://www.squidoo.com/

It doesn't produce a clickable link, but at least the URL is complete and not mangled, so one can highlight it with the mouse, copy it and paste it into a new browser instance location window. Other methods may work, such as inserting spaces in the initial part of the URL so that the filters don't recognize it as Squidoo.com. That puts an extra burden on the reader, though, to remove embedded spaces before the URL will work in a browser. — Quicksilver^{T @} 22:27, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Company

Why is the company behind Squidoo not mentioned? Stuff like physical address of headquarters office, legal name of company, where incorporated and so on. At the very least mention of the State or Territory is needed, especially if it is USA. Not being open about this kind of thing raises suspicions and alarms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.3.97.37 (talk) 18:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism following HubPages acquisition

It seems that certain people are unhappy with Squidoo's recent acquisition by HubPages, but Wikipedia is not the forum to vent such frustration. Thanks, --Soulparadox (talk) 08:51, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

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