Talk:Paper Mayhem

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Use of PlayByMail.Net source[edit]

Normally I'd hesitate to use a source like the PlayByMail.net source used in the article. However, Grimfinger, the author of the editorial, is the editor-in-chief of the online Play By Mail journal Suspense and Decision. In this case, I thought it would be OK to use as a WP:RS here. --Airborne84 (talk) 19:00, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Additional secondary sources[edit]

I added additional secondary sources after the addition of the tag. I think the statement by Dragon Magazine editor in chief Roger E. Moore that Paper Mayhem was the "'best established and ... most informative' of the various play-by-mail magazines available at the time, providing 'game reviews, playtesting notes, announcements, new releases, playing hints, and more' in every issue" goes a long way toward establishing this as the most notable of the play-by-mail periodicals of the period.--Airborne84 (talk) 03:27, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Additional potential sources[edit]

Transcribing a list of additional possible sources for the article from the discussion about this article's deletion, posted by User:Toughpigs.

"Beyond the worlds of the Monopoly players" by Frank Green, Hazleton Standard-Speaker (Feb 1, 1988)
Suspense & Decision #1
Suspense & Decision #5
"Extinction of the Species", No Fear of the Future (May 2007)
There are also examples of the magazine in a University of California archive of play-by-mail game material.

--Airborne84 (talk) 07:03, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]