Talk:Otakuthon

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Dates

Can someone update the dates for 2020? I would do so, except I am a volunteer for the organisation, which means I shouldn’t be updating the article myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.195.13 (talk) 13:31, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anime Concordia

http://otaku.concordia.ca

Link added to article! --Henrickson ^{User talk | Contribs} 16:29, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Potential sources

"Otakuthon set for Hall Building". Concordia Journal.

Heh... You added this here right as I added it to the actual article. :) There are some articles on Anime News Network too (since Otakuthon is Chris Macdonald's home con) but that site appears to be down at the moment. --PatrickD 03:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One other place to look are the Montreal newspapers. Unfortunately, I don't know where to look for those papers or if they will even be English friendly. --Farix (Talk) 03:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I found some web pages in French. Unfortunately, I'm too tired at the moment to remember my high school French. C'est la vie. --PatrickD 05:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and put the sources on here. Maybe someone else will take the trouble to translate and add them to the article. --Farix (Talk) 11:58, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious source

I have tagged the information that is reported to come directly from the convention chairperson. Unfortunately, the convention chairperson is not a published source and the information that comes directly from him or her cannot be verified. If a reliable published source is not found, then the information will be removed within one week. --Farix (Talk) 22:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A FAQ should be uploaded in the next website update. I'll link the info to there when the page will be online. --Henrickson ^{User talk | Contribs} 19:32, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So in other words, it is unpublished and therefore unverifiable. Well that means the information need to be removed. --Farix (Talk) 00:53, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The FAQ is now online. http://www.otakuthon.com/en/faq.php I'll re-insert only info that's currently available, citing the page of the FAQ where it came from. Info about the mascot is not available at the moment in the 2008 FAQ, but its creator is mentioned in the 2007 one. http://www.otakuthon.com/2007/en/main_faq.html More info will be added as the FAQ is updated. --Henrickson ^{User talk | Contribs} 17:50, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are you the one writing the FAQ? Because if so, the info needs to be taken down do to a conflict of interest. --Farix (Talk) 19:41, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's always meeting minutes, but these are not published publicly. The problem is that, with things like attendance figures, they're coming from the chairperson one way or another. You can grab the numbers off animecons (where I'd guess the previous editions' figures came from), but that's us who puts it there after the chairperson tells us. That's no different than me publishing a text file with all the information, and then using that as the published source. And, I mean, I can do that if it's required, publish an information page about Otakuthon with such figures and statistics... But how does taking what the chairperson says, putting it on a website, and THEN putting it on Wikipedia change anything? Guspaz (talk) 00:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Otakuthon

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Otakuthon's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "AC-2020":

From Anime Milwaukee: "Anime Milwaukee 2020 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
From Sakura-Con: "Sakura-Con 2020 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
From Anime Central: "Anime Central 2020 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
From Naka-Kon: "Naka-Kon 2020 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
From Anime Festival Wichita: "Anime Festival Wichita 2020 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
From MechaCon: "MechaCon 2020 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
From Anime Boston: "Anime Boston 2020 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
From Ushicon: "Ushicon 2020 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2019-10-03.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 17:10, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]