Talk:Cyber Monday

Error in Citation

Date wrong in ^ "Amazon.de bringt Cyber Monday nach Deutschland". Amazon.de. http://www.presseportal.de/pm/8337/1709547/amazon_de_gmbh. Retrieved 2011-11-03. ... it is only 2010, not 2011 yet!

Citations

Chris, I'm not sure what to do about your "lack of citations" comment. The links at the bottom of the article are pretty authoritative. Are you suggesting that they should be integrated in some other fashion?

The bottom line is that Cyber Monday was created by Shop.org, and received a bunch of press. Referencing Shop.org and the appropriate press discussions is about all you can do.

Dave

Dave, yes, the references should be in-line citations, rather than just listed as "external links". External links tend to be for additional reading, for one thing: Here is information on citation style: Wikipedia:Citing_sources. Additionally, please sign your talk page comments by adding four tildes (~~~~). Thanks, Chris Griswold (☎☓) 16:04, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Problem with tone and unsourced information - information moved from article

I've removed the following template/tag and unsourced information from the article:

When the term "Cyber Monday" was created in November 2005, the mainstream media picked up the term and reported as if "Cyber Monday" had been a long-running concept. ^{[citation needed]}

"Cyber Monday" is often associated with the unfounded belief that it is the busiest (highest sales volume) shopping day of the year for online retailers, because people would continue shopping while at work from the company's computer. This notion is based on the fact that in the late 1990s and early 2000s most people did not have broadband connections at home and used the first day back at work from the long Thanksgiving weekend to take advantage of such connections in the office to do online shopping. Given that most people who do online shopping now have broadband-speed access at home, many retailers have started to encourage people to do their online shopping from home on Thanksgiving itself by offering on their websites many of the Black Friday sales offered at the actual store locations the next day.

Given the number of good sources cited in the article, and the ease of finding more (a Google search provides excellent ones, right upfront), I invite other editors to add back whatever of the above text that they can also cite a source for. The article doesn't need this unsourced text as is; it has enough information now to be quite useful to readers. (And there is more in the cited sources that could be added.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:55, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Attaching the term "Propaganda"

Take from the Wikipedia propaganda page:

"Propaganda is a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience."

I am reinserting the term since the term, by definition, fits the article.

Nougat77 (talk) 17:06, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. The term "propaganda", in English, is inherently loaded and perjorative. Every political speech would count as "propaganda" by the definition you use, but we don't describe Lincoln's Second Inaugural, for example, as "pro-Union propaganda". The article would be just as informative without that word, and using the word signals a non-neutral point of view right at the top.

I won't remove the word myself (I don't want this to be an edit war), but I encourage other editors to weigh in... -- Narsil (talk) 18:03, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Third opinion: I've removed "propaganda" from the lead sentence. Narsil basically covered it above, but I'll just add that the word doesn't add anything to the article. All it's really doing is attempting to push a point of view. Having said that, if we could find a source that says that Cyber Monday is somehow propaganda, then maybe we could discuss its reinclusion. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 18:11, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

After reading through the discourse, I agree. Let's keep the article free of a particular point of view. PS @Narsil: You may need to survey people from different parts of the US on the Lincoln issue ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nougat77 (talk • contribs) 02:14, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Did it ever occur to you...

...that excessive online shopping on Cyber Monday has caused Internet connection problems at night? It may not have anything to do with the cable or the router, if you know what I mean. --Angeldeb82 (talk) 15:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Isn't it most correct to say that Cyber Monday is the Monday following Thanksgiving? Right now it's cumbersome to say it's the Monday after the Friday which is Black Friday. That can be appended, but the shortest way to say it is best. The Monday after Thanksgiving. User IP 24.176.201.122. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.176.201.122 (talk) 16:38, 27 November 2011 (UTC)