Nah, that's what Wikipedia is for. TV Tropes is supposed to be a place of discourse, dispute, and dynamic discussion, NOT a definitive source.
The big problem is that I really did FRAME that as if it were a proper citation: I didn't just say "Marvel uses a 1:3 ratio", or "An unnamed Marvel exec once said off the record" -- I very specifically said "Stan's Soapbox in the '60s." I only lacked a month and a year to pinpoint it.
That phrasing suggests a confidence and certainty in my information that I later came to suspect.
On the other claw, I haven't definitively disproved that the information came out of a Soapbox. I've only skimmed the paperback and the web archive looking for that specific column, and it's more than possible that I simply MISSED it.
If this were Snopes, it'd get a Yellow Dot for now.
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The big problem is that I really did FRAME that as if it were a proper citation: I didn't just say "Marvel uses a 1:3 ratio", or "An unnamed Marvel exec once said off the record" -- I very specifically said "Stan's Soapbox in the '60s." I only lacked a month and a year to pinpoint it.
That phrasing suggests a confidence and certainty in my information that I later came to suspect.
On the other claw, I haven't definitively disproved that the information came out of a Soapbox. I've only skimmed the paperback and the web archive looking for that specific column, and it's more than possible that I simply MISSED it.
If this were Snopes, it'd get a Yellow Dot for now.