Talk:Study guide

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- Made the article smaller, but more accurate. I am new here and didn't realize about article summaries. Hope I am not rocking the boat but I believe accuracy is more important then length.

I added lots of links. There are lots out there, please try to find more.

Stop adding SPAMvertisements. You have been warned.

Not sure which ones are the SPAMvertisements, however I noticed one user deleted all links except two, and another user restored them. I err on the side of having more links, regardless of how "well known" they are, this can still be an authoritative list of study guides. Why have fewer? I agree that all SPAMvertisements should be deleted, but how do we tell which is useful and which is not?

• • Now listen up everyboddy. Clearly some of these sites are spam. Look at Pinkmonkey and NovelGuide for example. These are spam sites stuffed with ads. They should not be linked from WikiPedia and I will remove them once again. -Ecyclopediac 19:05, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• • Examined PinkMonkey, which appears to reprint Barron's Book Notes, which are an esteemed series that is fairly well known to English teachers. They also appear to be producing their own content "MonkeyNotes". Agree the page is loaded with ads, but if ads were a criteria for removal, Google, Yahoo!, and pretty much every other commerical website would be removed. As for NovelGuide, They also appear to be producing their own content which looks fairly valuable, if not exactly unique in the field. Furthermore, SparkNotes is owned by Barnes and Noble and is also "loaded with ads". Cliff Notes is now owned by Wiley and look to be similarly ad-supported. Spam sites? What do you mean by that exactly. What distinguishes a "spam site" from a non spam site, in your opinion? Frankly your criteria seems to be based on the amount and quality of the ads, which I do not think is fair. I'm not sure about the other sites listed but at least some of them seem to be, if not as distiguished as, every bit as legitimate as the two sites you left up. Please clarify your policy because as it stands it is not consistent enough to be considered positive or healthy for this article.-Metrofeed

Looked over some of these sites and quality has probably improved over the years with the maturity of the internet. In particular Novelguide.com appears to have high value content. I searched for links here on wikipedia and found about 200 articles that link to it for references. I'm new here but am thinking of writing a stand alone page for this site. -Lisa Warner —Preceding undated comment added 00:42, 8 November 2011 (UTC).