Talk:Beanie Baby

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Contents 1 Tag variants 2 Improvement 3 Copyvio in sections? 4 Tenses? 5 Section for specific beanies

[edit] Tag variants

It seems a disproportionate amount of this article is spent differentiating the generations/subtle differences in the tags of beanie babies...not the babies themselves. The article is obviously incomplete, but even in its completed form, it should not contain so much about the tags. The amount of detail spent on these tags is the level of detail necessary in a beanie baby collector/buyer/seller guide - by no means relevant in a general article on beanie babies in an encyclopedia.

If such detail is to remain, I would at least recommend the tags be addressed in a separate article. - Slow Graffiti 05:32, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the tag info should be a separate article. 67.172.125.13 21:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm gonna go ahead and start a new article for the tags. Splamo 18:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement

I find this article's subject to be fascinating. Perhaps someone who was/is an avid collector could add more details about the collecting procedures, craze, and bust. Price guide values? --Chris Griswold 12:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I used to be, but I broke from the addiction years ago, and it has died down greatly. A price guide would bnot be wise, as it has changed a great deal. For example, while eight years ago, such Beanie Babies as Humphrey the camel once sold for several thousand dollars, yet today, some go for under one hundred. There's no real consistency now that the craze has died down. Michael 21:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Furthermore, there are probably over a thousand Beanie Babies that have been released. It would be impossible to cite them all. Michael 21:09, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Maybe some notable ones should be mentioned... Michael 21:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to make a section on some of the rarer ones now. Mr. Papaya 18:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio in sections?

the lead looks like original work, but I have my suspicions about the content in the sections. Reads like a Beanie Baby collector's book I got a few years ago, I'll look at it once I find it and post back. ~Chris /e@/iar/beans/dbad/ 22:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed while browsing, much of the Beanie Buddies section seems to have been copied verbatim from beaniephenomenon.com which says clearly at the bottom All graphics and content on Beanie Phenomenon are property of Peggy Gallagher Enterprises, Inc. And may not be reproduced, copied, or tampered with in any way without express written consent. -- Richard 23:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tenses?

This article, in particular the history section, seems to be written in past tense, to me it seems as this implies that Ty no longer makes beanie babies. Does anyone else think this and are they still produced? I'm not much of a beanie fan so I thought I'd check before rewriting all of it. Thanks Jyuichi 04:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Section for specific beanies

I remarked out the Peace Bear Collecting section. I did this because it would set a precedence where other editors will think that adding their favorite beanies is acceptable. Based on the deletion of beanie-specific pages earlier by the admins, we shouldn't be resorting to jam-packing this page with the same material. Even if the section was used as an example, it is much too information to serve as an example. Groink 22:06, 11 March 2007 (UTC)