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Question about a magazine's extra publications

Hi Project Magazine people, could someone answer this question for me? When National Lampoon (magazine) was in its heyday in the 70s, about 4 times a year they would put out various special publications that were also sold on newsstands, but that were not actually that month's issue of the magazine, they were separate additional things. Quite often these were large-format paperback books, such as "National Lampoon Gentleman's Bathroom Companion" in 1975. Does anyone know what you would call these publications? I am assuming there is a proper term for them... Do you call them special issues or what, because they were in addition to the regular issues. Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 15:27, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

I have added this article to the project. I have my doubts about whether it is anything more than an attempt to promote a startup attempt but I am not familiar with notability requirements for such articles so maybe someone here can have a look. Looks like most google hits are unrelated. --KenWalker | Talk 14:49, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

007 James Bond Car Collection

now they really are taking the p*** there really is too many now to collect and its costing to much money. I have already spent £629 on these cars and now they have adden more its gonna be at least £1000 when i finish this is getting ridiculous. What Do You All Think?????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.162.126 (talk) 17:20, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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Request for comment on Biographies of living people

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The two opposing positions which have the most support is:

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Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

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Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

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Ikip 02:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

File:Wallis Time.jpg

File:Wallis Time.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 06:05, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Slant Magazine article ...

... reads like ad copy written by the staff of Slant Magazine. Is this even a notable "magazine"? It's online only, and I thought they folded in the first dot-com crash. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bl4de runn3r (talkcontribs) 08:31, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Stub sorting, you can help!

On a whim, I started my stub-sorting career with the Magazines. When I started, the "Category:Cultural magazine stubs" and "Category:Magazine stubs" categories where both oversized and were barely distinguishable in the types of articles they contained. I've now created a number of new categories, and am completing sorting these two main categories out into my opinion of appropriate categories.

I would welcome help in a number of areas.

  1. Feel free to review the stub categories and make sure that magazines are placed in appropriate categories. (Note: please follow the stub sorting guidelines before creating any new stub categories) Please move any mis-sorted articles to a new appropriate category. Avoid the {{mag-stub}} and {{culture-mag-stub}} when possible, as these are non-defining categories. (feel free to review my remarks on the talk page for the cultural magazine stubs)
  2. The Category:Academic journal stubs could use some sorting. Anyone well versed in academia would be helpful here.
  3. And of course, these are stubs. Many of these may be able to be moved up the class ladder. I've included a number of articles that were either marked stub or unassessed. After review, if someone determines an article is deserving of start-class or higher, then reclass the article, and remove the stub tags. Also, feel free to improve any of these articles so the stub tags can be removed.

Dawynn (talk) 13:15, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Cats by country

Does anyone know whether there's been a consensus regarding how magazines are categorized by country if the magazine publishes international editions? Some such magazine articles are categorized only in its primary/initial country of publication while other (and fewer) articles are categorized with each "by country" cat that applies based on having international editions. Either way has merits to me. Any thoughts?  Mbinebri  talk ← 18:54, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Categorizing question

I've been working in fits and starts on The Advocate. It started as a newspaper and transitioned to (and is still published as) a magazine. Is there a guideline as to whether it should be categorized as both a newspaper and a magazine? Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 00:34, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't know of any such guideline, but my opinion would be to categorize it is as both (as it currently is), since it was at one time or another both. Cheers, Arbitrarily0 (talk) 13:50, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Women's magazines but no gay magazines?

Wonder why under men's magazines there is a section for gay magazines but under the women's listing there is no reference to gay women's magazines. Would have been interesting to see what's out there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.31.188 (talk) 15:30, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Der Spiegel needs cleanup of numerous un-cited POV statements

Der Spiegel needs your help to cite or remove numerous un-cited POV statements.

Article has been tagged since December 2009.

-- 187.105.7.193 (talk) 21:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Just go remove them, per WP:V and WP:NPOV policies. You don't need "help" to do that. And asking for it from a projectful of editors sounds very much like canvassing in support of your side in an edit-war. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō Contribs. 01:02, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge redundant media projects into taskforces/workgroups

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media#Merge redundant media projects into taskforces/workgroups. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō Contribs. 01:02, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Question about a magazine's extra publications

Hi Project Magazine people, could someone answer this question for me? When National Lampoon (magazine) was in its heyday in the 70s, about 4 times a year they would put out various special publications that were also sold on newsstands, but that were not actually that month's issue of the magazine, they were separate additional things. Quite often these were large-format paperback books, such as "National Lampoon Gentleman's Bathroom Companion" in 1975. Does anyone know what you would call these publications? I am assuming there is a proper term for them... Do you call them special issues or what, because they were in addition to the regular issues. Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 15:27, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

I have added this article to the project. I have my doubts about whether it is anything more than an attempt to promote a startup attempt but I am not familiar with notability requirements for such articles so maybe someone here can have a look. Looks like most google hits are unrelated. --KenWalker | Talk 14:49, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

007 James Bond Car Collection

now they really are taking the p*** there really is too many now to collect and its costing to much money. I have already spent £629 on these cars and now they have adden more its gonna be at least £1000 when i finish this is getting ridiculous. What Do You All Think?????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.162.126 (talk) 17:20, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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File:Wallis Time.jpg

File:Wallis Time.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 06:05, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Request for comment on Biographies of living people

Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:

  1. supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
  2. opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

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Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people

List of cleanup articles for your project

If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see: Cleanup listings A list of examples is here

Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip

Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip

Ikip 02:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Slant Magazine article ...

... reads like ad copy written by the staff of Slant Magazine. Is this even a notable "magazine"? It's online only, and I thought they folded in the first dot-com crash. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bl4de runn3r (talkcontribs) 08:31, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Stub sorting, you can help!

On a whim, I started my stub-sorting career with the Magazines. When I started, the "Category:Cultural magazine stubs" and "Category:Magazine stubs" categories where both oversized and were barely distinguishable in the types of articles they contained. I've now created a number of new categories, and am completing sorting these two main categories out into my opinion of appropriate categories.

I would welcome help in a number of areas.

  1. Feel free to review the stub categories and make sure that magazines are placed in appropriate categories. (Note: please follow the stub sorting guidelines before creating any new stub categories) Please move any mis-sorted articles to a new appropriate category. Avoid the {{mag-stub}} and {{culture-mag-stub}} when possible, as these are non-defining categories. (feel free to review my remarks on the talk page for the cultural magazine stubs)
  2. The Category:Academic journal stubs could use some sorting. Anyone well versed in academia would be helpful here.
  3. And of course, these are stubs. Many of these may be able to be moved up the class ladder. I've included a number of articles that were either marked stub or unassessed. After review, if someone determines an article is deserving of start-class or higher, then reclass the article, and remove the stub tags. Also, feel free to improve any of these articles so the stub tags can be removed.

Dawynn (talk) 13:15, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Cats by country

Does anyone know whether there's been a consensus regarding how magazines are categorized by country if the magazine publishes international editions? Some such magazine articles are categorized only in its primary/initial country of publication while other (and fewer) articles are categorized with each "by country" cat that applies based on having international editions. Either way has merits to me. Any thoughts?  Mbinebri  talk ← 18:54, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Categorizing question

I've been working in fits and starts on The Advocate. It started as a newspaper and transitioned to (and is still published as) a magazine. Is there a guideline as to whether it should be categorized as both a newspaper and a magazine? Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 00:34, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't know of any such guideline, but my opinion would be to categorize it is as both (as it currently is), since it was at one time or another both. Cheers, Arbitrarily0 (talk) 13:50, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Women's magazines but no gay magazines?

Wonder why under men's magazines there is a section for gay magazines but under the women's listing there is no reference to gay women's magazines. Would have been interesting to see what's out there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.31.188 (talk) 15:30, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Der Spiegel needs cleanup of numerous un-cited POV statements

Der Spiegel needs your help to cite or remove numerous un-cited POV statements.

Article has been tagged since December 2009.

-- 187.105.7.193 (talk) 21:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Just go remove them, per WP:V and WP:NPOV policies. You don't need "help" to do that. And asking for it from a projectful of editors sounds very much like canvassing in support of your side in an edit-war. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō Contribs. 01:02, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge redundant media projects into taskforces/workgroups

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media#Merge redundant media projects into taskforces/workgroups. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō Contribs. 01:02, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Your Shot - National Geographic Magazine

The National Geographic Magazine page could be improved by a discussion of "Your Shot". This photography competition is based on the National Geographic website and it has a large, international following. Every month, the winners of the competition are published in the National Geographic magazine. One of these winners was the notorious Crasher Squirrel. Another winner was spotted by the band Weezer, who used the image for the Raditude album cover. It was also the focus for a debate on digital manipulation, when National Geographic was tricked into printing a doctored image after it won the contest (here). Your Shot is a significant photo contest, and as such it deserves a mention. --Ofe13999 (talk) 11:04, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Magazine articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Magazine articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Sunday, November 14th.

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The article Ikon (magazine) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Article content seems to indicate the subject does not meet Proposed deletion, a search for references did not find support for the content of this article as written.

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Hello - I'd like to request a member of this group (or anyone for that matter) address the request for cleanup on the entry for China Economic Review. Possible conflicts of interest have been noted on the magazine's Talk Page, and on my own user page. Thanks.

Chinaeconomicreview (talk) 10:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Bloginity Magazine

Hi everyone, I am a new member of this group, and looking forward to contribute as much as I can. I wanted to get your awareness for Bloginity which is up for deletion. I was hoping that some of you here may be able to help the group out with the improvement of the article, and or help with the debate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bloginity. (Knox387 (talk) 18:19, 20 January 2011 (UTC)).

The Diplomat

There seems to be two problems with the Diplomat. First is notability, the only references I could find about it were itself and Wikipedia. Second is it seems more like an advertisement than an actual informative piece. Imasomething (talk) 17:43, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposal for deletion has been started in the right area. Sorry about the mistakes I made here. Imasomething (talk) 15:34, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Useful? Who knows? Interesting? I think so.

Made this for kicks and giggles. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:05, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Assess?

I wonder whether anyone who reads this page might like to wander over and assess Jewish Sports Review? Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:27, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Epeefleche, I wandered over to Jewish Sports Review. Good article. Corrected a typo and left two comments on the Discussion Page. Please read them if you have time. I do not know how to change the Category Biweekly to Bi-monthly. Please steer me to more articles. Thank you. Respectfully, Tiyang (talk) 12:30, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Questioning the notability of Juxtapoz

Could experienced editors take a look at this magazine? 2 of its 3 references are questionable. Thanks! John Milito (talk) 17:44, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Question about sf magazine articles

There is a question here about science fiction magazine articles that I'd be glad to get feedback on from editors who have worked on magazine articles. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:17, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Project Magazine's importance rating on National Lampoon magazine?

I hope you guys don't object, I took the liberty of changing the importance rating from "low" to "mid". National Lampoon was an extremely influential magazine all during the 1970s and even the early 80s. Invertzoo(talk) 20:35, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

How about newspapers?

I wonder if the editors of this project wouldn't be interested in expanding and adopting the area of newspapers as well, forming the WikiProject Magazines and Newspapers? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 22:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

  • As far as I can see, this project is near-death... --Guillaume2303 (talk) 10:52, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
This might be an idea, although I think Wikipedia:WikiProject Journalism is also good for newspapers. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 17:09, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Would it then make sense to merge Magazines to Journalism? Hardly anybody is active here... --Guillaume2303 (talk) 15:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Possibly, although it would be preferable to keep the projects separate, I think, if some activity could be stirred up. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 22:09, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

What Investment magazine

The article for What Investment magazine doesn't seem to meet any of the notability criteria listed on the project page. I thought I'd bring it here to check before adding a propose for deletion tag. LogicalFinance33 (talk) 03:24, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Hustler Magazine case, Requested move

Please see Talk:Hustler_Magazine,_Inc._v._Falwell#Requested_move_8_February_2015.

Thank you for your time,

Cirt (talk) 12:39, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

IT Week magazine doesn't appear to exist any more

Wasn't sure where to bring this up, apologies for the noobishness. Was cleaning up some references on other articles and noticed one to itweek.co.uk which is a dead domain. IT week also has it's own article which doesn't make any mention of the publication no longer existing so thought it appropriate to flag it here. Shedwigs (talk) 12:06, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Template:ESPYs

There is a discussion about the use of {{ESPYs}} at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports#Template:ESPYs.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Would someone please review this deletion? I believe that this material ought to be in the article, as it simply describes the content of this publication. Thanks! -- 66.65.112.230 (talk) 14:49, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

  • Seems like a good edit to me: sourced to a blog and vaguely POV. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 14:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
    • Please note that the statement is also sourced to Commentary (magazine). What if the blog reference were dropped, and the material were simply: In addition to domestic issues, the Review covers issues of international interest, including frequent articles about Israel. "Topic: the New York Review of Books", Commentary, accessed March 11, 2012 I think if you'll look at the link, in which writers at Commentary describe this aspect of The New York Review of Books, you'll see that it is a key component of the content of this magazine. Thanks. -- 66.65.112.230 (talk) 16:17, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
  • As you also posted this on my talk page, I have responded there. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 16:46, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

This discussion could use some input from editors from this project. Thanks. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 15:19, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:HighBeam

Wikipedia:HighBeam describes a limited opportunity for Wikipedia editors to have access to HighBeam Research.
Wavelength (talk) 18:13, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Cheers, Arbitrarily0 (talk) 01:59, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Is The Music Trades a reliable source? Its articles (in my N=5 convenience sample) could well have been written by public relations departments of the profiled companies, because they were so positive and lacked authors' names, imho.

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 08:46, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

The article Today's Railways has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no evidence of notability

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The article Railways Illustrated has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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CIO magazine

I was amazed that there's no Wikipedia article about CIO magazine, so I just created a little blurb about it today. Would members of this WikiProject help it conform to Wikipedia standards? CoLocate (talk) 21:40, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Magazine articles by quality and importance: error

When I click on any of the links in the table "Magazine articles by quality and importance", I get an error message:

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See recent discussions at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:52, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. --Iantresman (talk) 22:40, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Lobster: denounced in the House of Commons

I've (hopefully) improved the article on Lobster (magazine), a magazine on the security services and conspiracy theories that was denounced in the House of Commons. I'd welcome a review on its quality and importance, on it way to trying for a Good Article review. --Iantresman (talk) 10:38, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Resurgence & Ecologist

FYI, one of the oldest environmental magazines, The Ecologist, published recently only online, has merged with Resurgence, edited by Satish Kumar. A new, combined print publication, Resurgence & Ecologist, is slated to come out this month (Sept. '12)... This set of articles will thus need to be updated soon. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

How to organize content about magazines

I started Magazines in Houston to chronicle all of the small/minor magazines published in Houston that are featured in secondary reliable sources.

I now have a lot of information about a series of neighborhood magazines which later were published under the single unifying masthead "Houston City Life." The magazines were started by one company, but were transferred to another company. Should I start two articles each, one about each company, and redirect "Houston City Life" to Media Link? Or should I start an article on "Houston City Life" and redirect "Media Ink" to "Houston City Life"? (I am not aware of Media Ink publishing other magazines, but the Creneau company published other magazines that were not related to "Houston City Life")

WhisperToMe (talk) 02:18, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Prove notability of trade magazine

How do I prove the notability of a trade magazine? I found Risk Management (magazine) and gave some new info, but it needs more sources. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 06:39, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  • Have a look here. Basically, it's not simple to show notability of a magazine or academic journal, because there rarely are third-party sources about these periodicals (unless they did something stupid generating a lot of controversy). --Randykitty (talk) 11:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
    • Cool! I've seen others cite this magazine, so I'm going to presume notability :) WhisperToMe (talk) 17:09, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Chiropractic Economics

As the editor of this publication, I've reviewed the entry for Chiropractic Economics magazine and it seems to be in good order. All details listed are correct and validated with neutral, unbiased (i.e., non-internal) references and links.

I'd like to get the "problematic" label removed from this entry. If anyone can assist me in resolving this issue, I'd be highly grateful.

Regarding the "questionable" activity regarding links, I believe the Webmaster made some edits, but not for SEO purposes directly.

GOOD Magazine and GOOD Worldwide

Edit request moved to Talk:Good Worldwide. jonkerz ♠talk 00:15, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Two deletion nominations

Tinywords and Bottle Rockets (magazine). Someone not using his real name (talk) 18:18, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

  • I have tagged them with {{WP Magazines}}, so that they'll get listed here by the article-alert bot. --Randykitty (talk) 10:23, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission

Is this project still active? If so, could you have a look at this submission? Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:58, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

  • I had a quick look and at least at first sight it looks well-sourced and notable. I did not check the sources, though, and the references could be formatted better, I think. Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 16:16, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has an extensive collection of magazines' back issues. There is a separate collection of computer magazines. Be sure to use the Internet Archive template when adding external links to articles on individual magazines. Ylee (talk) 19:19, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

The article Prince William Living has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I don't think that notability can be established for this magazine.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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This AfD debate could use some input from knowledgeable editors. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 09:39, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

List of past subjects/articles covered in a magazine

Hi. I'm not a regular participant in this WikiProject, so I wonder if more experienced editors can have a look at the Tokyo Journal article, which I have been involved in editing. I'm particularly curious as to whether it is normal practice to include an ever-increasing list of all the past topics and subjects covered in a particular magazine, as is the case in the "Features" section of this article. Thanks for any comments or advice. --DAJF (talk) 08:47, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

  • Hi, I've had a go at it. It is indeed not normal to include such sections (see our magazine article writing guide). Such list basically constitute unsourced OR and SYNTH. (Although editors often argue that the source for this is the tables of content; even when accepting that argument, there remains the fact that such lists reflect what particular editors find important about the magazine's content, which still is OR/SYNTH). As a rule of thumb, like any info in articles on any other subject, information on a specific article or contributor should only be included if there exist reliable sources independent of the magazine that cover such contributions or subject lists. Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 12:27, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for having a look at the article and cleaning it up to bring it in line with the manual of style guidelines. Thanks also for providing a link to the guidelines about adding too much puff about past contents. They confirmed what I suspected was probably the case, but I just couldn't lay my hands on them. --DAJF (talk) 01:04, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

A relatively new editor added an article on The Yale Record. The article is a good start, but it is largely unreferenced and contains some unencyclopedic tone. Can anyone help? Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:40, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

There is an ongoing deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 January 15#Template:Major English-language business magazines which has been relisted due to insufficient participation. Contributions from WikiProject Magazines members would be welcome. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:24, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Dear magazine experts: This old Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable publisher, and should the article be kept and improved instead? —Anne Delong (talk) 17:30, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Philatelic journals or Philatelic magazines

There's a discussion over the proper name for the category Philatelic journals editors here may be interested in. --Randykitty (talk) 19:16, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Magazines At Wikimania 2014

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Notes

Opinions needed for an RfC

voluntarily closing as a malformed RfC -- see below for the better formed Rfc
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

I just opened up an RfC over on Treats! available right here . Feel free to stop by and give your opinion. Kosh Vorlon    12:24, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

RFC , take 2

So I closed my prior RFC as it was suggested that it was malformed I've re-opened it here . Your input would be appreciated Kosh Vorlon    16:57, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Treats!

I created Treats! and then I ran into a brick wall. Can't even find the editor. Not sure if I should blank the page.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:28, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Eyes needed on Treats!

I'm requesting eyes ( and input ) on the talk page of Talk:Treats!. On the article I removed an image here as I believed it failed NFCC 3, 5, & 8. I placed a note on the talk page with a detailed rationale, The admin chillum agreed with me , however, TonyTheTiger did not and he restored the image. I'm seeking consensus on whether or not this image violated NFCC 3,5 & 8. Thanks ! Kosh Vorlon    20:02, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Please note that the image was restored along with the addition of corresponding text in the article and further explaination on the talk page of the need for a color image so as not to mislead the reader into believing this is a black-and-white art magazine as might be inferred from the more famous image in the infobox.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:22, 17 July 2014 (UTC)


Vogue editions merger proposal

I am proposing that the articles on the various Vogue editions be merged. If you are interested in opining, please see the proposal and discussion here. Holdek (talk) 22:58, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Magazine template categories

Hi WikiProject Magazines. Is there any reason why Category:Magazine templates and Category:Magazine navigational boxes don't exist? I can think of several templates which could be included in such categories, e.g. {{50 largest US magazines}}, {{BritishMagazines}}, {{Vogue magazines}}, {{Private Eye}}, etc. Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 07:03, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Since nobody provided a reason why these categories do/should not exist, I have created them. DH85868993 (talk) 07:31, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention

This is a notice about Category:Magazines articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 06:46, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

The Sun Magazine

I recently expanded the stub about The Sun Magazine. I'm new to Wikipedia and would welcome any feedback on my work. Thanks! Yoginih (talk) 21:36, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

The usage of the pagename HERO (magazine) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:HERO (fashion magazine) -- 70.51.200.101 (talk) 06:23, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

L'Express (France) listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for L'Express (France) to be moved to L'Express. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:49, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Magazines vs journals

There is a discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philately#Philatelic magazines vs. Philatelic journals that may be of interest to participants in this project. --Randykitty (talk) 12:57, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Revista H

what is the difference between Revista H and H Para Hombres? Frietjes (talk) 12:36, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Categories for Rolling Stone articles

Is there any justification to have both the "Works originally published in Rolling Stone" and the "Rolling Stone article" categories? R k nelson (talk) 15:54, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

title_orig field (original title, if not in English)

{{Infobox book}} offers a field "title_orig" (original title, if not in English); can we have one for {{Infobox magazine}} (and {{Infobox journal}}), please? Thanks. fgnievinski (talk) 00:00, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Or a field "title_other" (for "also known as" names), in the case the primary title is already not in English ({{Infobox journal}}'s "former_names" field doesn't apply to current other names). fgnievinski (talk) 02:58, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Category:American Geophysical Union publications

Category:American Geophysical Union publications, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for upmerging to Category:American Geophysical Union. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 09:57, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Would welcome any additional participation here. David King, Ethical Wiki (CorporateM) (Talk) 20:10, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Intereconomics

Dear all,

I have noticed that you have decide to classify Intereconomics as a maganize. But as stated in Springer (the publisher), it is a journal: http://www.springer.com/economics/policy/journal/10272?countryChanged=true

And if you see the classification in here: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/format-type/scholarly-journals you will see that it is not necessary that a journal is peer-reviewed to be a journal (for example: "The majority of scholarly journals go through the peer-review process, although there are some that are scholarly and non-peer reviewed, such as Journal of financial econometrics."(I am guessing that that is the reason why you changed from journal to magazine. If it is because something else please tell me).

Here you can also see the difference between a peer-reviewed journal and a journal that is not peer-reviewed: http://guides.library.cornell.edu/c.php?g=31867&p=201759

Thank you for your time.

Isanjar (talk) 12:16, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Category question

Is there any good category for websites that function similarly to magazines - by publishing material on a range of topics? I am struggling to see what to categorise a lot of major websites out there like FiveThirtyEight, The Toast and so on, which are clearly more like a news magazine than a blog - in that they aren't just written by one person. Blythwood (talk) 12:26, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

RM

Talk:True Detective (magazine) Talk:True Detective see Talk:True Detective (TV series) In ictu oculi (talk) 15:46, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

I've proposed a merger of Weird Tales (anthology series) -> Weird Tales at the target talk page; please comment there if interested. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:55, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Question about |firstdate= parameter

Should the date for |firstdate= in {{Infobox magazine}} be the date that is printed on the cover of the magazine, issue date, or the date which the magazine was released for sale? —Farix (t | c) 12:56, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

I think it should be the issue date, usually the masthead date. The date the magazine was released for sale is not always easy to tell, and although it can be quite different from the issue date that's something that can be explained in the body of the article. The fact that the two don't correspond is something many readers won't know, so it would be confusing to use release date. Where the cover and the masthead disagree, it's a little harder to say, but usually this means that the issue was delayed so the cover was printed (or overprinted) with a later date. In those cases I'd go with whatever the sources index the issue as. That's rare for a first issue, though; usually it happens in the middle of a run when a magazine is experiencing difficulties of some kind. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:31, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
So let's use Weekly Shōnen Jump as an example. If the date on the first cover says August 1, then that is the date that should be listed in |firstdate= instead of the July 2, 1968 date that a source in the article? I'll also point out the the Media Arts Database (MADb), published by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, only gives the issues dates for everything published before the October 18, 2009 issue.[1][2] The reason for this clarification is that I know I'm going to encounter resistance as I update manga magazine articles to reflect those cover dates and the MADb, however, the template's documentation doesn't make it clear which dates to use. —Farix (t | c) 17:44, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
I don't read Japanese, but Google Translate doesn't seem to give the 2 July date, unless I'm missing it. However, per WP:TRUTH, if that source says the cover date was 2 July 1968 then we have to use that unless we have a better source. If you have a copy of the first issue, and the cover date is clearly 1 August, then I would use that; this is one of the rare cases that a primary source trumps a secondary source. In situations like that, when a secondary source is clearly wrong, if the source is something a reader might consult (such as a reference work) then I sometimes add a footnote explaining the conflict and giving the basis for choosing one source over another. See note 2 in Startling Stories for an example. If multiple reliable sources all agree on the 2 July date I think you would have to explain the discrepancy to the reader. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:51, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources

See

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:49, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Help finding a home for content removed from The Week

That article contained material about four different publications, most of which were explicitly identified as being related only by coincidence of their name, as well as focusing substantially on one of them. I removed the content about the other three and created a new article for one of them. But I could use some input regarding what to do about the other two, at Talk:The Week#Off-topic content removed. DMacks (talk) 09:05, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

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Split proposal

Members of this WikiProject might be interested in a proposal I've started here. Snuggums (talk / edits) 14:30, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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Pixelsurgeon

Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a peek at Pixelsurgeon and assess it's notability per WP:NMAG? The article content is not supported by any citations to reliable sources and the magazine is defunct. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:46, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Please participate in this discussion. This is related to the creation of a magazine-equivalent to WP:JCW. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:04, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dagga Magazine. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:11, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Can we get some eyes on Sorted magazine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? At the article, an IP is repeatedly removing sourced material and replacing it with unsourced material, promotional language, and spam. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 23:36, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Just to re-request this. From a policy perspective (mostly WP:NPOV) it's getting a little ridiculous. Primefac (talk) 15:28, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Just to let you know that WP:MCW is up, similar to WP Journals' WP:JCW. Many thanks to User:JLaTondre for this. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 12:54, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Magazines

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 16:57, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Removing pointless italics title templates from articles with a bot

See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JCW-CleanerBot 3, please comment. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:09, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Deadline Hollywood

There is currently a discussion regarding whether or not the name of the Deadline Hollywood website should be italicized, please participate at Talk:Deadline Hollywood#Title style. Thanks.— TAnthonyTalk 00:35, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment there. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 15:24, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of lesbian periodicals in the United States#Format change, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. Should the page format be changed from a bulleted list to a table? Woodsy lesfem (talk) 02:21, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Proposal - article for Zero Magazine (music magazine)

Hello, I would like to propose creating an article for Zero Magazine, a music magazine that ran in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States. The WorldCat entry is here. This is a different magazine than either Zero_(video_game_magazine) or Zero (Spanish magazine). I have created a draft article in my userspace, with additional notes in the talk page. Zero Magazine appears to already be used as a reference or mentioned in several existing Wikipedia articles. Any feedback about whether this meets notability criteria would be welcome. Thanks! --Culix (talk) 03:08, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Add academic journals to WP:VITAL

See Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/4#Add: Academic journal + others for the discussion. Participation is low so far. Comments would be very appreciated here. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:16, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Proposal - Roads & Kingdoms

I recently posted an article request for Roads & Kingdoms, a New York-based online publication covering food, travel, and politics, founded in 2012. I’m currently an intern with Roads & Kingdoms, and I’ve carefully studied Wikipedia’s policies on disclosing conflicts of interest. I will not make any direct contributions on articles related to the publication, and I am not paid for my contributions.

I wanted to make a post here in WikiProject Magazines, as I believe Roads & Kingdoms meets the notability criteria outlined here for magazines: It received the James Beard Foundation’s Publication of the Year Award in 2017, and Anthony Bourdain was the publication’s sole investor and editor-at-large.[3] The company also produces online content for CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown television series.[4]

The publication has received substantial coverage by The Wall Street Journal, American Journalism Review, Inc., and Vox Media’s Eater. ([5]; [6]; [7]; [8]) Any feedback on whether Roads & Kingdoms meets notability requirements is welcome, and I would be happy to work with editors on a draft of the article. Please see my talk page if you have any questions or concerns. WillA98 (talk) 15:01, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Would someone be interested in giving this a new rating at the talk page? It was last rated stub class in 2011, but has been expanded since. Regards, De728631 (talk) 18:17, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

A magazine with only two issues? Does this need an article? Harizotoh9 (talk) 21:35, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

It does not appear to meet any of the guidelines for notability at WP:NPERIODICAL. I would say it should be moved under the Publisher's page, but that doesn't have an entry nor does the editor. Jaldous1 (talk) 15:11, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
Deletion then? Harizotoh9 (talk) 12:27, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

I've sent Raze magazine to AfD, not quite sure how to add it to the AfD list for this project. Govvy (talk) 15:04, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

User:Mike Christie is not allowing an infobox because it is "misleading to list only current values when the most important information relates to 1930s to 1970s". Is this correct? Should most of the history go on its own page to focus on the current publication? It has changed ownership a few times but has never had a pause in publication longer then six months since 1930. JonathanDP81 (talk | contribs) 04:29, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I don't own the article, but I did remove the infobox. I'd rather not split the article - it's not too long as it stands, and it passed WP:FAC in its current form. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 08:31, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Nargis magazine

Was wondering if anyone from this WikiProject might be able to take a look at and assess Nargis magazine. Newly created by a new editor who added it directly to the mainspace; so, there was no AfC review to vet any issues. This could be a case of COI or undisclosed paid editing as well. If kept, the article might be better off WP:MOVEd to Nargis (magazine) and the titled italicized since that appears to be the convention for articles about magazines. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:41, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Source for publication years?

Hi - I am contemplating creating an article for Basketball Digest magazine and am wondering if anyone knows of a source for magazine publication dates? I cannot determine when the magazine ceased publication (the first issue was November, 1973). There may be other magazines I’d like to work on, so if anyone has a good general resource for publication dates I’d be interested to know. Thanks. Rikster2 (talk) 14:19, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I have Frank Luther Mott's A History of American Magazines, which is useful up to 1930. After that date I don't know of a general resource. Science fiction magazines are well covered by the ISFDB, and I can probably dig up resources for non-sf pulp magazines through about the mid-1950s. You could try to find libraries holding copies and see what their holdings are, though you couldn't be sure the listings were completed. Before about 1978 you can also find copyright renewals which will at least give you listings of some of the issues. Another approach is to search ebay for "basketball digest" (including the quotes); you can see the individual issues for sale that way and sometimes it's pretty easy to work out what issues appeared in a year. That's not an RS for our purposes, but you can cite the individual issues as sources for their own existence.
Not what you were asking, but you might find the issue grids I use for magazine articles useful to display the publication history; see Venture Science Fiction for an example, and Planet Stories for a more complicated one. For long tables I usually start them collapsed; see Analog Science Fiction and Fact for an example. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:44, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

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Discussion on reliability of ¡Hola! and Paris Match magazines

There is a discussion on the reliability of the ¡Hola! and Paris Match magazines on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § ¡Hola! and Paris Match magazine. — Newslinger talk 21:03, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

AFD of interest

Please consider participating at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bicycle magazine. --Doncram (talk) 03:52, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

There is a request for comment on the reliability of the online magazine Sixth Tone. If you are interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § RfC: Sixth Tone. — Newslinger talk 02:37, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Please comment at the above link. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:48, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Montana magazine styling dispute

Please comment at Talk:Montana (magazine). Thanks. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:26, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

MoS RfC on tense for describing periodicals

There is a MoS RfC that editors here may be interested in, about whether to use "is" or "was" to describe periodicals that are no longer being published. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:09, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Glamour magazine archive

Does anyone know if there is an online archive of Glamour magazine articles? I am looking for an article published in the June 1999 issue. Thriley (talk) 20:07, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Request for help updating the Playboy article

Hello! I'm Zach, an employee of PLBY Group. As an editor with a conflict of interest, I don't make direct edits to articles related to Playboy. Instead, I look for volunteer editors who are interested in helping to review my suggestions and implement any they agree with. I posted a few thoughts on Talk:Playboy about some content that could be clarified and also posted sources for some unsourced material. I did add the edit request template, but only got a partial answer. I thought I'd reach out here and see if anyone is interested in reviewing my requests. If so, you can find them here. Many thanks, PLBY ZG (talk) 17:38, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

For the interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:02, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

THE WEBSITE LISTED AS 'OFFICIAL WEBSITE' OF THE MAGAZINE IS NOT HOSTING THE SERVICE. 2405:201:12:50C3:11EE:AC9D:E753:1C45 (talk) 12:58, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata proposal of potential interest to this project

A Wikidata property proposal regarding Issuu is at Wikidata:Property proposal/Issuu ID. Feel free to join the discussion there. --Animalparty! (talk) 23:47, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

hi y'all – what do you think I/we should consider before moving Apartamento to Apartamento (magazine)?

I ask the above considering how likely, I assume, it could be for a reader who speaks Spanish to arrive on Apartamento and become surprised when they come to realize the article is in fact about a magazine as opposed to apartment the concept.

Note: I figured this page would be a good place to ask this question considering Apartamento seems to be of interest to this WikiProject. Stussll (talk) 06:14, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Afterall

I can't find any high quality sources for Afterall. Maybe someone else can? (It's kind of hard to search for). But if not, maybe it is not actually 'noteworthy'? Ascendingrisingharmonising (talk) 13:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

H Para Hombres

Would some members from this WikiProject mind taking a look at H Para Hombres and assessing it for WP:NPERIODICAL? It's completely unsourced and is currently bascially nothing more than a brief introductory paragraph followed by a long embedid list of celebrity names. The magazine is probably notable enough for an article and perhaps that are non-English sources that can be used to help establish that. Moreover, the list of names could probably be trimmed and supported by WP:PROSE so that it isn't just a list of every celebrity who appeared on the cover. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:07, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Paper (magazine) help please!

A new account began editing this page today and after several back and forths, I'd like some help on how to handle the changes they want made. The paper was sold in 2017, and the new acc says that the listed editors on the infobox are no longer there. They finally provided this article in an edit summary as proof for removing all three. Even if they're no longer there, isn't it better if a source explicitly states that x y z left in x year? I have zero issue w the page being updated, but rather with how the new acc is handling it and I already rvd them twice today for making unsourced changes. -- Carlobunnie (talk) 22:25, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Maybe it would be best not to have the editors in the infobox and to just have something in the main body of the article that says 'As of (year), (editor) was an editor' with the year corresponding to the citation? Unfortunately this is quite a tricky thing as editors leaving (even quite prominent magazines) are not always reported anywhere. For example, Simon Grant recently left Tate Etc, which has the highest distribution numbers of any art magazine in the world, after over a decade as the editor, and I have been waiting for months in vain for a reliable 3rd party to report on it that I can cite in the article. Ascendingrisingharmonising (talk) 09:18, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Publisher, owner?

Checking over Larry Flynt Publications, Hustler & Hustler Video articles. Larry Flynt is listed as publisher & owner. How is this possible, when he died in February 2021? GoodDay (talk) 05:40, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Good idea to update the article to refer to him as the former publisher and owner, please do go ahead. Ascendingrisingharmonising (talk) 09:20, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

  • John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

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Help talk:Citation Style 1 has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Sideswipe9th (talk) 00:05, 1 July 2022 (UTC) updated RfC location after it was moved Sideswipe9th (talk) 16:06, 2 July 2022 (UTC)