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That isn't to do with the AfD - it is more the wording. Things like "critical acclaim" are usually red flags and the history section doesn't really tell us much about the history but about "how great we are". (Emperor (talk) 20:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC))Reply
The critical acclaim and so on is written in there not as an ad but as a claim for notability, I suspect. On the other hand, the assertion that the company was founded in 2001 is still unsourced and I am dubious about its validity; when I researched this article the only source for anything from this company started in 2003, and the only source about it being founded in 2001 was the company's own site. Felisse (talk) 14:15, 4 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Furthermore some sources actually contradict the idea that it was founded in 2001, such as this one: "Viper Comics burst onto the comic publishing scene with the wildly popular Dead At 17, which was nominated by Wizard Magazine as one of its top hot comics. Viper has since gone on to have not one, but two graphic novels selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association as great graphic novels for 2007.[....]We have been publishing for a little over 3 years. We have published over 70 comic books and 20 Graphic Novels." at [1]Felisse (talk) 14:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
I have made some edits to this page to see if I could make it more factual-based and so removed some of the language that made it feel more like an advert. After reading this discussion, I noted that Viper's own website no longer refers to the 2001 founding date, but says that they've been publishing since 2003, so I've also changed that information and wording. This is my first attempt at this much editing of a page, so I hope that I've done these changes correctly and that maybe I have at least done enough to remove the advert tag. Mettam (talk) 16:39, 19 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
