Talk:Philatelic investment
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I hope that readers find the Philatelic Investment article useful. As a Wiki newbie, I'm grateful for the format editing contributed by the more experienced Wikians. Should anyone have any questions regarding the topic, or suggestions on how to improve the article, please inquire or comment here. -Alex (ARog)
- This should be written in the third person - consider that after a year of changes, it's not going at all clear which editor the "I" is referring to. Another thing to consider is making it a little more "for the ages", not referring to today's situation. If you absolutely must make a statement that is only true today, use the link as of 2003, that way next year people can find this article in 2004 and decided whether the statement is still true. Still another thing that would be useful is to quote some authority. As an encyclopedia, one of our charters is to connect general readers to specialized literature where they can go into depth; that is also the basis for verification of statements, especially the potentially controversial ones. Stan 21:48 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Change point form's hyphen into star (*), and then it'll really become point form in Wiki markup. Just leave no line between each star-point. --Menchi 03:08 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Source
Is this from some pamphlet? ("Appendix") --Menchi 03:08 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Improvement plan
Stan- Thanks for your suggestions. I'm in the process of polishing this article.
A)I'm modifying the article to put the whole of it into the third person.
B) Re: making it more "timeless," this is somewhat more problematic, since many of the examples used to illustrate various points relate to recent or current aspects of the stamp market; perhaps I should eliminate the investment "tips" given in the appendices
C) Re: citing authorities- unfortunately, there aren't any. Stamp Investing is a "new frontier" as far as tangibles investing goes; while there is a vast amount of philatelic literature, there are very few books on stamp investing, and the few that exist are overly general and not very useful; perhaps I should include an expanded list of useful books and publications, however; perhaps I should also dig up some old stamp catalogues and quote the relevant comparative prices from them to give greater credibility to some of the past trends that I describe; this would take quite a bit of work, however
Sections
This article really needs to be broken up into sections so a TOC can be generated for it. It'll make the article much more accessible/useful. I'd do it, but I'm out of my element with this article. — Frecklefoot 18:07, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
What is a TOC? I'm a wiki-newbie.
- "Table of contents" (see TOC :-) ). A recent software update autogenerates them if you use the "== ==" syntax for at least four sections. You can see one in United States for example. Stan 19:28, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Stan- I don't think I'm sophisticated enough to add a linkable TOC.