Talk:Gay marketing

Article Checklist for "Gay marketing"

Workgroup category or categories	Business Workgroup [Editors asked to check categories]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	Yes
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	Matt Innis (Talk) 19:53, 24 July 2007 (CDT)

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I started this article from scratch here at Citizendium.--Ian Johnson 15:19, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

Original author notes

I created the Gay marketing article without outgoing hyperlinks to start. There are obvious opportunities to source various parts of the article, and to create new CZ articles for related topics: Gay community, gay media and so on. I will get to these if someone else does not first.

It is also worth considering including links to external sites related to gay marketing.

As the company I run (Out Now) is in this article's topic area I refrained from doing this, but perhaps some other author or editor may consider the inclusion of links to organizations referenced in the article.

Gay Market News is an update service on gay marketing http://www.gaymarketnews.com that I think is also of interest to the article's topic - but it is not yet included as I write content for it.

Perhaps another author can look into this and decide whether to include these links.

This is the very first article I have created for CZ and so am looking forward to receiving any feedback, either here or on my talkpage, about ideas for improvements.

In addition, I did not yet know how to add the checklist, so if you do know, please add it, or else I will learn more and return to do it. --Ian Johnson 17:39, 24 July 2007 (CDT)

Hi Ian, I added the checklist! I also left the 'legend' at the bottom so you can see how the answers were figured. Once you got the idea, please delete that part. For your first article, you are off to a fast start and seem to be learning fast. Keep going! --Matt Innis (Talk) 19:53, 24 July 2007 (CDT)

Sytax of title

I'd like to suggest that the syntax of this article title is problematic.

To illustrate, consider the many demographics marketers target. A few off the top of my head are Marketing to teens, Marketing to children, Marketing to parents, Marketing to homeowners, Marketing to singles, Marketing to the obese, Marketing to the retired, Marketing to farmers, etc. Following the syntax of this title--well, the results are actually quite humorous. We get Retired marketing, Obese marketing, etc. And here is one potentially very confusing: Farmers marketing, rather than Marketing to farmers.

I am suggesting with author hat on that all article titles on marketing to certain demographics be consistent, in the form Marketing to demographic X.

 —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 05:06, 26 July 2007 (CDT)