Talk:Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984

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Hi! Sorry again for the slow response, but I'm finally home and can answer the rest of your questions. Some of what I'm going to post here is copied and pasted from my partial reply on my talk page, while the rest of it is in response to your other questions. References should be inline, not on a separate page. Sources that you're citing should be footnoted inline, although if you're using multiple pages from one reference (say a book or a long journal article) in different areas you can use a short format inline and give the full reference information in a separate section. See Cleveland Bay for an example of the short/long formatting that I'm talking about - completely different subject, but same general idea. Just using links, like you currently have, is not usually a good idea. They easily go dead and give the user much less information than a fully formatted ref. This is especially true for the ebscohost articles. Because that is a subscription database, many readers do not have access to it. In this case, you should provide a full citation to the journal article (I use the {{cite journal}} template, but you can also do it manually), and then provide a courtesy web link if you wish, although this isn't mandatory.

If you feel that the page should be moved because it is not at the proper name, go ahead and do it. At the top of the page, next to the read, edit and history tabs is a downward pointing arrow. If you run your cursor over this, one of the options that pops up is "move". Click on this and follow the directions to make the move - just be sure to read carefully. If you have any problems let me know and I can clean up, but remember that it's pretty much impossible to "break" the wiki - anything can be undone. I hope these answers help, but please let me know if you need further explanation. I'm watching this article and the talk page, so you can ask any questions you have here, or on my talk page. Dana boomer (talk) 13:49, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Another thought on seeing your recent edits: Remember that the lead is supposed to be a summary of what is contained in the rest of the article, and is generally not cited other than quotes and truly controversial information. See WP:LEAD for further information on this guideline, or check out some featured articles for examples. Dana boomer (talk) 00:44, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dana,my name is walla2jl. Your article looks like it is coming along well. I copy edited the "Brief History" section, just making a few small gramatical changes. I would recommend linking some of your key phrases to other wikipedia articles to make it more user friendly to people who want to know more about some of the things you are mentioning. Great work! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walla2jl (talk • contribs) 20:28, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Name, Cable TV Privacy Act

The original title was the "Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984". See 98 Stat. 2779 (at Wikisource). This article should be renamed as such.

The Cable TV Privacy Act article gives as its source 47 U.S.C. § 551. Cornell LII gives this act, at 98 Stat. 2794 (at Wikisource), as the source. This act gives no such short title. A Google Books search gives little in the way of supporting that article either, at only 27-58 results, many referring to an Illinois (and possibly California) act by that name. Section 9 of this act gives the effect date as 60 days after enactment, which was 30 October 1984; that article gives the effective date as 29 December 1984. That article should be merged and redirected into this article.

Int21h (talk) 14:08, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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