Talk:The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book

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Copies sold

I've changed the copies sold from "more than 1 million" to "more than half a million", since The Australian article of 2011 (ref 2) gives the latter figure. I believe the news.com.au article of 2015 (ref 1) has misinterpreted The Australian article, which says:

"When first published in 1980, the birthday cake book sold 500,000 copies and in the past decade the various Women's Weekly birthday cake titles combined have sold one million copies."

Any corrections welcome if you have further information. --Metallic Starling (talk) 13:04, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank Metallic Starling, I've tweeted to the author of the News.com.au article[1], who helped me with writing this WP article too, to see if she can shed some light on this. Cheers, Wittylama 15:36, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Metallic Starling - I have confirmation from Ginger Gorman - the author of the news.com.au article that the number 1M sales prior to the new publication is indeed correct. The Australian article is just using older figures. Here's the confirmation tweet by way of verification: https://twitter.com/gingergorman/status/657648136752533504

So, the original statement in the article should be returned as it was.

Sincerely, Wittylama 20:08, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for following this up! I've reverted the page to its previous version. --Metallic Starling (talk) 09:00, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Another link that may be helpful :)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-07/women's-weekly-children's-birthday-cakes-go-on-display/7393306

Not in time to get photos unfortunately! -- Chuq (talk) 11:48, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

I added this reference a couple of days ago. It's good because it contains photos so readers can see the cakes. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 12:42, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

I'll ask Ginger Gorman (who was one of the event organisers, a journo who wrote some of the articles which are cited here, and ALSO contributed two of the current photos in the article) if she has any she's willing to add. Wittylama 12:53, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

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