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Can someone please try to "clean it up"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Speyeker (talk • contribs) 04:35, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
69.136.72.16 (talk) 23:39, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I don't think this entry needs to be flagged as reading like an advertisement. However, the sentence stating that FiveFingers was one of Time Magazine's inventions of the Year in 2007 is simply wrong. They are nowhere to be found in the list of inventions: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1677329,00.html (However, this inaccurate statement appears in over a 400 places on the Web.)--MichaelRNelson (talk) 19:35, 28 August 2010 (UTC)MichaelRNelson
Sorry . . . The shoes WERE listed as a Best Invention of 2007.
http://www.trailspace.com/articles/2007/11/12/vibram-fivefingers-named-a-best-invention-of-2007-by-time-magazine.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.191.175.207 (talk) 21:52, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Wondering why the external link to the FiveFingers fan site got killed -- http://birthdayshoes.com -- Disclosure: I created birthdayshoes. That said, it is by far the most exhaustive resource about fivefingers on the Internet with hundreds of user-posts, hundreds of forum posts and forum members, revivews, photos, product news, etc. It's bizarre that the external link to birthdayshoes was removed but external links to four arbitrarily picked reviews (there are hundreds of reviews out there) are left.
Meanwhile, I'd be happy to extend some of the information on this write-up. For example, it'd be informative to include mention of the ongoing counterfeit fivefingers problem (see: http://birthdayshoes.com/these-are-not-vibram-five-fingers-spotting-fakes-counterfeits-knock-offs-and-other-pirated-black-market-five-toed-shoes )
Justinowings (talk) 14:42, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
3 pictures of KSOs are more than enough. Can someone replace a couple of those by some pics of other models? 80.174.254.231 (talk) 18:29, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Seems like this would be a relevant addition to the article -- some mentions of why toe shoes make sense ( http://birthdayshoes.com/why-toe-shoes ) or surrounding the history of VFFs as a brand http://birthdayshoes.com/what-are-they —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.14.229.65 (talk) 15:24, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Why is there a section on minimalist shoes in this article. That is a separate topic. This article should just talk about the Vibram 5 fingers, and not the details of a study. If there are no objections, I will remove that section. These shoes are notable, and this is a good article, even without the section on minimalist shoes. Sancho 17:03, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
At some point in the editing process the point of this section appears to have been lost. It currently describes the methods of studies but there are no results/conclusions. danno 01:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Over a year later, this section borders on coatracking. I removed this addition which appears to have original research problems. Let's find a proper place for this and follow WP:MEDRS closer. --Ronz (talk) 00:34, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Apparently my attempt to help fill out this topic didn't quite fit the standards. Nonetheless, I'd like to help make this a more comprehensive topic. I have a fair amount of personal first-hand knowledge of this product. I noticed that a site that I could possibly use for reference has already been removed once prior (despite being a rather comprehensive and informative site). Is there some way to legitimately add detail without having to rely upon citing some collection of general freelance reporter articles that often get their technical details wrong from the beginning? Suggestions? Radon360 (talk) 05:35, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I put the referenced sentence "The company settled a law suit alleging false health claims and set aside $3.75 million to pay refunds of up to $94 to anyone who had purchased the product since March 21, 2009." in the lede and was reverted. This is covered in the body and I believe that it is very necessary for this article. Otherwise the article still very much reads as promotion or advertising. There are very few secondary sources cited in the article, and this is one of them (from the Washington Post).
There are still some non-vague health claims in the article and these should be removed mostly as original research, where our editor's "connected the dots" in 2 articles that didn't mention Fivefingers, or mentioned the product only once as a general example of a type of product.
The revert edit summary stated "Rv repetition and undue prominence in lede of matter covered better in body of article already." These matters are best dealt with by consensus of our editors. I'll put the sentence back in for now. Smallbones(smalltalk) 17:52, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
These don't seem like they would offer much more protection against toe-stubbing than going barefoot would! Also, isn't there any more information available on what these supposed health claims were against the company? I hate when an article just says that "the compnay was alleged to have engaged in some wrongdoing/malpractice", and doesn't give any details as to what this might be. AnnaGoFast (talk) 21:12, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
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