Talk:Street News

A fact from Street News appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 March 2009, and was viewed approximately 1,622 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Street News, sold by homeless individuals in New York beginning in 1989, became the prototype for street newspapers worldwide?

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Finding sources: books, news archive, web

Thank you[edit]

Thanks for helping with this Rjanag. Writing a street paper article is easy and fun when it's enough to create a half-crappy start and wait for you fix it up! --Apoc2400 (talk) 16:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, no problem; you actually had a great start here, and came across some refs that I hadn't seen before (I have since stolen them to use in the Street newspaper article). Thanks for all the work you've done getting rid of these redlinks! rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 21:01, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reversions[edit]

98.165.73.193, please refrain for a moment from reverting the article, and explain here why the information in the article is incorrect. It is in a published source and I believe it is innocuous; if you are concerned that it gives too much weight to negative things, there is

Harris, Timothy (14 September 1997). "Strength in Unity: Street Newspaper Must Not Be Its Own Enemy". Founding Conference of the North American Street Newspaper Association. Real Change. Archived from the original on 3 November 2005. Retrieved 13 March 2009.

which I believe has some information about Street News's recovery after these things, and could be used to expand the article. Anyway, please explain for us what is wrong with the information so we can start discussing how to fix it; that will be more productive than all of us reverting one another. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 17:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please send your email address to hp111@yahoo.com before putting the text I've been deleting back into the article. I will send you some information which you can decide how to use and whether you still think it appropriate to put in what you've been including. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.73.193 (talk) 17:59, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I sent an email. --Apoc2400 (talk) 18:32, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Now, wait a second. There's no reason for someone to require off-wiki communication for this. Apoc, I appreciate your getting in touch with this person by e-mail, but it shouldn't be necessary; 98.165.73.193, I would appreciate it if you explain here why the information is wrong. If you are unwilling to explain why the information is wrong, then you can't keep reverting like this. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 18:41, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The explanation would take up several pages and some of the information sent to apoc just now, you might or might not decide is relevant. Also there's a very good reason why the information was sent privately. I'll be happy to copy you with what I sent to apoc. Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.73.193 (talk) 18:47, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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