Talk:Zentai

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[edit] Forum links

I can certainly understand the removal of the Suya-Zentai dead link, but www.ZentaiForum.com - not my site - is now the only forum I know of dedicated to discussing Zentai, and for a hobby which seems to be largely underground it appeared entirely appropriate to provide a reference to somewhere folks could discuss the topic and find out more.

The 'external links' page to which you link says clearly of forums "looking at the Wikipedia guidelines, I don't see anything saying they aren't allowed." The preceeding "I have often removed (such links) because they were just comments and messages" doesn't seem entirely relevant here - ZentaiForum is quite consistently on topic, and if the crowd from Suya-Zentai move over (as they have started to do) then Zentai Forum will become every bit as rich as Suya was.SleekWeasel 02:00, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I'm concerned about the quality of the external links.

  • I removed http://www.spandex-party.com "Community site for zentai fetishists" partly because it seems to be more of a general spandex gallery site than a zentai-specific discussion site, partly because it was WP:EL not tasteful.

AndyELycra's discussion board is associated with his shop, but the commercial activity is limited.

This seems like a useful resource.

Marcy Anarchy is generally recognised to be one of the pioneers of Zentai and her inclusion seems appropriate: even though it's effectively a gallery link, Zentai is a visual form.

This is an active non-profit board, and seems like a useful resource for this minority interest (see above).

  • Zentai Doll - Blog of a zentai lifestyler (French language)

I'm not sure how useful this is - for non-French speakers, it's essentially a gallery link.

This is a Zentai-specific directory, but eight links seems too trivial for it really to qualify as a directory. I'd change this link to http://www.closetmonster.net/links.html's zentai (lycra) section, if that were a separate page, since that has more zentai than this directory. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SleekWeasel (talkcontribs)

[edit] Image

I removed the image of the "woman in a zentai during a performance", as the woman was clearly not wearing a zentai. The suit in this picture is actually a catsuit, as it does not cover the head or face. The replacement image is clearly a zentai suit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andyelycra (talkcontribs)

Works for me. However, the new image on there has its own issues, which I discuss at User talk:Andyelycra. SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your input - I have responded here User talk:Andyelycra Andyelycra 19:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)