Talk:Madame Alexander Doll Company

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Added an external link Nirvanahoy (talk) 18:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Beatrice Alexander - Woman of Valor by the Jewish Women's Archive this was the link added by the above account, borderline WP:SPA and questionable WP:External link, but I moved it here in case it's of some use. Siawase (talk) 23:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"making the first mass-produced dolls in honor of living people": That's not true - there were many Fanny-Elssler-dolls produced in her lifetime by French and German manufactories. 84.46.59.76 (talk) 16:38, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I changed this to "one of the early creators" instead. Siawase (talk) 11:37, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Citation style[edit]

I found a new reliable source to support "Madame Alexander's sale to Dollie and Me". The source currently being used is a dead link, and I was not able to find an archived version of it. So, I marked it with a {{deadlink}} and was going to add the new source shown here as an inline citation to support the text, but stopped when I noticed that a mixture of citation styles is currently being used in the article.

Some citations use templates while others do not. WP:CITESTYLE says that no one style is preferable over another as long as it is an acceptable style on Wikipedia; The most important thing is consistency. WP:CITEVAR says the the style used by the first significant contributor should be deferred to unless there is a consensus to change to another style. The first reference added to this article seem to have been made in February 2009 by this edit ; That, however, was simply a bare url which is not really desirable because of possible link rot. This edit made in December 2009 used a {{cite web}}. So, is it acceptable to consider this style the one all subsequent citations should defer to? Personally, I find using templates easier, since all you have to do is add the parameters; the software will take care of everything elso. Others, however, may feel differently. Unless somebody objects, I suggesting adding templates to all of the citations throughout the article for the sake of consistency. I also suggest that the date format for the "dates" and "access dates" given in the citations be made consistent as well. Since this article appears to have been written in American English, per MOS:TIES I suggest using either the all numerical "yyyy-mm-dd" or the written out "Month Day, Year" format. Please discuss. Thanks in advance. - Marchjuly (talk) 07:12, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Company name[edit]

The article's infobox had listed the company's name simply as "Madame Alexander" until it was changed to "Madame Alexander Doll Company, LLC" with this edit by Bea112w with the edit sum saying "the company was started as a doll company, Many people started to collect dolls later, but Madame herself insisted that dolls be played with and loved. It is a doll company of all types of dolls." There is, however, no way to verify what someone's intentions are unless they are mentioned in a WP:RS and on Wikipedia it is verifiability, not truth that matters. Since no source was provided to support the name change, I have reverted the edit per WP:PROVEIT back to the version prior to the change per WP:STATUSQUO so that this can be discussed.

Both the sources Isaac Mizrahi Inks Deal With The Alexander Doll Co. and Kahn Lucas Acquires Madame Alexander Doll Brands refer to the company as "Alexander Doll Company, Inc." while the company's own website uses "Madame Alexander". It is quite possible that the name has changed over the years, and the company is referred to in a number of ways, but Template:Infobox company#Parameters says the "The full, legal name of the company, correctly reproducing punctuation and abbreviations or lack thereof" is to be used. There should be some source which can be used to support that name whatever it may be. - Marchjuly (talk) 07:43, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A few of the many published sources I found on Google Books (limited to preview only) that might help improve the article as well as clarify the original company name (as published in LOTS of similar books): [1], [2], [3] Mabalu (talk) 10:35, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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