Talk:Information Please
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Full disclosure: I work for Information Please. I've also been a user and editor here for some time, and I'm committed to Wikipedia's principles, including NPOV and Wikipedia articles are not advertisements. With that said, this article is a bit of a muddle as written. Unless there are any objections in the next day or so, I'm going to be bold and do a bit of restructuring, but I'm also going to account for it here.
As it stands, this article is primarily about the Information Please radio show, hosted by Clifton Fadiman, with a couple of sentences strewn here and there alluding to the Information Please Almanac, Infoplease.com, and Fact Monster. It seems to me that
- the print almanac deserves more attention than one sentence (see World Almanac for the treatment of a comparative work),
- this article isn't the place for it, and
- furthermore, the websites have nothing at all to do with the radio show.
I think the most straightforward solution would be to confine this article to the radio show (mentioning the print spinoff only insofar as it was a sign of the show's popularity and influence), and create Information Please Almanac for the almanac.
(The name of this proposed article is taken from the pre-existing link on List of almanacs. The current full title is the TIME Almanac with Information Please, and a redirect from Time Almanac would not be amiss, but I'm willing to use the historical name for the main article.) -- Shmuel 15:54, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
