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I love this idea of creating new pages for Newspapers and repairing existing ones. I run the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project (GSoW) we have found that editing Wikipedia is a daunting task for new people. I have a team of editors that function off Wikipedia itself in order to make training and mentoring more "friendly" to new people. We have been very successful over the years and operate in many languages, usually focused on science, scientific skepticism and the paranormal. I'm not asking new people here to join GSoW, but what I am offering is that if there are brand new people here who are intimidated by Wikipedia lessons or vocabulary or afraid you will screw things up, I will set you up with a mentor that will walk you through the process and hopefully allay your fears. Our team trains people who have never edited anything before, so we teach the basics of the basics as well as pretty advanced edits. We have an aggressive scary name, but I assure you that we follow all the rules of Wikipedia and our editors are terrific. You probably read our work all the time and are unaware of it, and we interact with the average Wikipedia editor often and you can't tell, cause well... we are the average Wikipedia editor, we just also work as a team. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to see our public face. If you want to be matched up with a mentor or just have general questions about how to start to become an Wikipedia editor, you can reach out to us by email GSoWteam@gmail.com or you can reach us by Facebook. We are more than happy to help you start your journey becoming a Wikipedia editor. -- Susan Gerbic Sgerbic ( talk) 19:28, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Anne9853 has given you a c ookie!
Anne9853 ( talk) 02:58, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Sorry I've been slow at getting back to you, but this is a great offer and we'll make use of it -- just need to get a bit organized. Thank you so much! Michaelacaulfield ( talk) 19:38, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
On 9 July 2018 the Wikimedia Foundation grants program will open applications for grant proposals related to metrics.
A major problem in Wikimedia community metrics is measuring when people add citations to reliable sources. If your project builds out descriptions of publications then that could have synergy with efforts to identify when anyone else cites those publications.
There would be multiple pieces to such a project but this WikiProject is proposing an essential part of the overall process. If you think it fits then consider the coming grant process. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:23, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
OK, we need to do this, but I'm having trouble figuring out who should administer the grant. More soon. Michaelacaulfield ( talk) 19:39, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
I see that the goal of this project is to post to English Wikipedia. This is great. Good luck.
I also see that most of you currently signed on to this program are new to Wikimedia projects. I have some advice - please immediately learn to edit Wikidata and make the development of Wikidata items a priority to pair with your English Wikipedia editing.
Reasons why I think you should do this include the following:
Good luck -
Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:32, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
Note especially the data model, which perhaps this project could use. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:30, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
@ Bluerasberry: and @ 99of9: Thanks for the link, I'm now watching the Wikidata project. But I'm not sure I understand the point about data models...and perhaps I'm generally missing something about how we could be working with Wikidata.
It seems to me that we should:
Beyond that, is there something we should be considering, and if so, can you spell it out a bit more? - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 21:15, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
@ Bluerasberry and Peteforsyth: There are now 4907 USA newspapers on wikidata. I've been steadily matching, and there are only 612 still missing USNPL ID. All that are matched should have a place of publication, so you can already make a decent map. Hope you like it! -- 99of9 ( talk) 00:12, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
#defaultView:Map{"layer":"?article"}
It means that the items will be grouped and coloured according to the value they have in the ?article field. Since anything with no en-article has that blank, they all come up the same colour (here red). All the other items have different wiki articles to one another, so all come out as different colours. To change it up and make them more meaningful,
here's a version of the same map which is coloured by the total number of sitelinks (0,1,2,3,...) amongst all language wikipedias.
99of9, Bluerasberry, Michaelacaulfield: I started a sub-page to collect thoughts about Wikidata. Hope this helps, and please feel free to watchlist/expand/edit/correct/etc. Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Wikidata. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 21:38, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
WikiConference North America October 2018 in Columbus
This general regional Wiki-community conference typically gets 300 attendees from Canada, US, and Mexico. Many representatives of wiki-communities from universities will be present. If you want to check options for US-regional collaboration then presenting your idea here could be the fastest and easiest option.
Wikicite November 2018 in San Francisco
If your project develops by November 2018, and if you start to consider applying structured data to newspaper citations, then consider joining this. Right now the focus is on academic publications and it is easier to get structured data from those. However, what applies for journals could apply to newspapers. Think about the extent to which this is a fit!
Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:38, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
here was an editathon at Annapolis Wikipedia:Meetup/MD/UMD_MSA_Newspapers. we should be able to ramp up using wikidata methods. Psyduck3 ( talk) 21:55, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
if you use m:Programs_&_Events_Dashboard it will track edits and articles created. Psyduck3 ( talk) 21:29, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
I've created a *really* simple template that can be added to the Talk pages of any articles to associate them with this project. Add the text {{Template:WikiProject_Newspapers}} to any Talk page to show the template. I've used it on the page I've just created for the Turtle Mountain Times if you want to see it. -- Ammienoot ( talk) 23:18, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Another thought on templates is that it might be nice to make up a template to thank people who have participated in the project - we do this for our editathons at Edinburgh. After the event we visit the Talk pages for all contributing users and leave a thank you message tailored to the event. Usually it contains more info about editing Wikipedia and working on the project so that people can keep going if they want to. Might be worth considering here if you haven't already?-- Ammienoot ( talk) 14:43, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
OK, I've updated the template to permit assessing articles according to quality and importance to the WikiProject. There's still more work to do, but this will permit us to add (optionally) ratings to articles. To do so, instead of adding the template like this:
you would add it like this:
{{WikiProject Newspapers|class=CLASSRATING|importance=IMPORTANCERATING}}
and you'd fill in values as follows:
CLASSRATING could be any of the following. In practice, only the first three or four will apply; GA and FA require formal peer review processes that are likely outside the scope of this WikiProject.
IMPORTANCERATING could be:
The next step would be to formalize the stuff I've written above on the pages linked in the template. I'm happy to continue on that if folks feel it is worthwhile. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 19:25, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
So, I've realized there's an odd bit of history to our project: In 2012, my friend John Vandenberg created a REDIRECT from the "WikiProject Newspapers" template to the "WikiProject Journalism" template. I think we're all in agreement that the two WikiProjects have (overlapping but) distinct goals and purpose, but part of the result is that there are a number of pages already tagged with the (newly-created) "WikiProject Newspapers}} template. For instance, Fleet Street. I think we only want to have actual newspapers as part of this WikiProject -- and not places, people, etc. that happen to be closely related to newspapers. But it bears asking explicitly...is that the general sense here? Should be be changing articles like that to explicitly link to WikiProject Journalism instead? - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 20:54, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
That is my general sense. I think the project is bigger than our current initiative (all current US newspapers in USNPL) but expansions will only be targeting articles on real newspapers Michaelacaulfield ( talk) 19:45, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Marketing and outreach are probably early concerns of this project but I have a need to show this project off. Do any of the core team have ideas for a logo?
Noun Project has images with Wikimedia compatible licenses. This project could use one of their logos.
Alternatively - I could present this project without a logo but I do have some newspaper-related events coming up and I would like to affiliate with this project and showcase it as best as I can. Thoughts? Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:22, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Often the leadership or personnel of a paper will edit an article, which can improve the article, but also will often over-emphasize the present at the expense of the past (sometimes removing sources and sourced info). Here's an example. Something to keep an eye out for, and (ideally) engage the contributor, encourage them to disclose any conflict of interest, and to observe Wikipedia's standards a little more carefully. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 21:49, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
In case anybody interested didn't hear about it, we will be having a conference call to explore how to incorporate Wikidata work into our efforts this afternoon (4:10pm Pacific time). Please leave a note here if you'd like to participate; I believe we'll be using the conferencing site appear.in - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 21:06, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia judges whether a topic can be the subject of a Wikipedia article. If a subject can have a Wikipedia article then it is "notable". If a subject cannot then it is "not notable". The general guideline for notability is can be summarized by saying that a topic is notable when it is the subject of multiple reliable sources.
Besides the general guideline for notability anyone can write and propose special notability criteria for particular classes of topics. Right now there is no special criteria for newspapers, meaning they are notable only if they meet the general guideline. Here are some special criteria which might be similar to what we could propose for newspapers:
At a glance I expect that many newspapers would not meet similar criteria. We can petition for change, and there have been great changes recently with new accessibility of datasets as reliable sources. If we do petition for change we are not certain to get support that change, and if we can get support, the time scale may be a period of months for the conversation to play out.
While failing notability will exclude some newspapers, lots of newspapers will meet existing notability criteria, and can now be the subject of Wikipedia articles. If we guide new users to write articles about newspapers then sending them to easier cases would be preferable to sending them to more challenging cases. The ideal situation is starting a new Wikipedia article on a newspaper for which someone has sources other than just the database.
I understand that there has already been some off-wiki conversation about this. We will find a way forward and definitely have hundreds of good options for making Wikipedia articles. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:51, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Hey project members -- if you haven't yet written an article, I have a challenge for you -- Write just one new short Wikipedia article about a U.S. newspaper, add infobox to an existing one, or add a cited fact to an existing draft, by next Sunday, September 2. Ask here on the talk page if you need help!
Start by picking a newspaper. Consulting our state lists or our map might be a good way to find one. On the map, red dot=no article yet, yellow=article without infobox. Let's see if we can knock out a few papers in the coming week! - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 19:22, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
I've recently been looking for wikilinks which point to the "wrong" primary topic (priests celebrating mass, albums by Prince, etc.) and fixing them in a semi-automated way. I've noticed a lot of links to The Daily Telegraph which probably refer to The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). Here is an incomplete list, which contains many false positives. Unfortunately I don't see a way to fix these, as there's no easy way to check whether an Australian really did work for, or get reported in, the British paper. Please can anyone help? Certes ( talk) 10:58, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks to a helpful Wikidata colleague, we have some current numbers to consider:
what | numbers as of August 23, 2018 | query link for numbers | query link for items |
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Wikidata entries | 5012 | query | query |
English Wikipedia articles | 1454 | query | query |
enwp articles containing infobox newspaper | 1257 | query |
It remains a bit elusive to get good comparisons from one date to another...I'm working on getting some help on that. But this is a strong step in that direction! See here for the discussion on Wikidata. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 17:18, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Hur Herald and HuntingtonNews are possible notable, but the others (Mountain Messenger and Citizens' News) are free, ad-supported papers focusing almost exclusively on press releases, event, schoool and sports, and have no deep history.
Hur Herald seems to have started as a joke, but became something interesting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelacaulfield ( talk • contribs) 02:36, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia already has an Omaha World-Herald page, but I notice in the list here there's a paper listed as Omaha-World Herald. Is this a typo, or does there exist another newspaper with a similar name? To my knowledge, there wasn't a competing World Herald in Omaha. - Jason Heppler ( talk) 21:06, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
I think it would make sense to have a spreadsheet for this project.
Is there one already?
--Robert Sterbal, call/text 412-977-3526, robert@sterbal.com Rsterbal ( talk) 11:48, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
We should agree if we are going to use wikidata or a spreadsheet.
This help file: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Wikidata_Query_Help
will set me back personally for quite some time, where I think everyone knows how to use a spreadsheet.
We should come up with a list of columns:
Table
Other
Infobox
Rsterbal ( talk) 01:33, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Article name with link | Existed on June 1, 2018? | Is a redirect today? | Was a redirect on June 1? | Has infobox today? | Had infobox on June 1? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Malheur Enterprise | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
.... |
I was finally able to run the query and pasted the raw results here:
This is the first list of columns:
Perhaps the first cut is to eliminate all of the rows without an article?
Rsterbal ( talk) 11:54, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
I'd be happy to discuss the ideas further in a call. 100.6.115.51 ( talk) 10:34, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
Here are the suggested infobox columns:
{{Infobox Newspaper | name = [[Image:The Adair County News logo.png|225px|centre|The Adair County News]] | | image = [[Image:The Adair County News.png|225px|centre|Adair County N]] | | caption = The December 14, 1910, front page of <br>''The Adair County News''| | type = [[Weekly newspaper]] | format = [[Broadsheet]] | foundation = 1887 | ceased publication = 1987 | price = | owners = | publisher = Adair County News Company | editor = | language = English | political = | circulation = | headquarters = [[Columbia, KY]] | oclc = | ISSN = | website = }}
100.6.115.51 (
talk) 12:13, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
In Australia we have hundreds of newspaper articles and categories aligned to the older Journalism project - however everything here at the momentseems to be focused to the US scope.
Question is if it is specifically for US newspapers, or for worldwide newspapers, could that be clarified somewhere in the main scope and space of the project - otherwise there is potential problems for delineating scope/aim on the project main page - and potential confusion of where Journalism starts and where Newspapers starts. Trust there is a capacity in this project to be very clear about that. Thanks. JarrahTree 23:19, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
Someone on this project needs to enlist the assessment process to the project for it to even look like a project - that is there is a page - it needs to look like other longer established projects by having a good and robust assessment process in action. I used to use artists o this task in the past who are no longer active - but, it is needed - soon JarrahTree 00:04, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Interesting, I used to defer to now blocked or absent editors to help create the internal tweaks for templates and assessment processes - the pages and the various requirements. In most cases I would just follow and tag the talk pages.
I would argue for assessment like 90% of the rest of wikipedia projects, for some sense of belonging... eccentric projects is like, not really being in with the rest...
If it was possible to make a sub-page of the issues you have identified above, it allows others see and to get an outline - if it was possible to get a dump of what needs to be done.
Not as technically answering I would like to, hope that's an idea. JarrahTree 23:35, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Example of an infobox powered entirely by Wikidata is now on the The Cambrian article. Simon Cobb ( Sic19 ; talk page) 23:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Aggregator of news with AI misinformation alerts checked by humans:
https://bitpress.news/misinformation-alerts/
-- Jndockery ( talk) 02:45, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
You guys, I can't even express how eager I am to find a way to work this Oregon pioneer into our project's imagery somehow. Don't be surprised if you spot this in a project report or something... - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 02:17, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Killington Mountain Times to be moved to ''The Mountain Times'' (Killington). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 01:03, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Just FYI, in case you're not aware the State Library of New South Wales ran a project to train Librarians how to build Wikipedia articles for the newspapers which were being digitised for Trove. Not only did the create MANY articles (the first few sentences of which then got embedded into Trove's own record pages), and train librarians about how WP works, they also created interesting lists such as List of non-English-language newspapers in New South Wales. See: Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/The Newspaper Project. Witty lama 09:48, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
There is a merger discussion at Talk:Goodloe Sutton that project members may be interested in participating in. Sounder Bruce 02:03, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi all, I've come across a few newspaper entries where I'm unsure of how they measure up to notability standards--as far as I can tell, I'm not sure these meet any of the possible prongs for establishing notability but it's not an area of AfD I've dealt with before so I wanted to seek some input. For instance:
Counsel from those more familiar would be much appreciated! Innisfree987 ( talk) 01:58, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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.
There is a request for comment on the general reliability of the Daily Graphic (Ghana) at the reliable sources noticeboard: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § RfC: Daily Graphic and graphic.com.gh signed, Rosguill talk 05:35, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for The Beaver to be moved to The Beaver (newspaper). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 13:30, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Here is a project with shared goals
Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:05, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
I've started to collect information on newspaper clippings archives all over the world. Unfortunately, having started with German-speaking countries, I've found only a few beyond in Canada so far (see
List of newspaper clippings archives - in German, for now). If you have information about such archives, please let me know. I'm happy about all hints. --
Jneubert (
talk) 13:33, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi all - my library colleagues & I at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill are excited to start a N.C. News edit-a-thon. First one is Oct. 24, 2019 - I hope to run one each semester at the University of North Carolina's Hussman School of Journalism & Media Our meetup page and see our results at our dashboard. I'm the journalism librarian & will be leading the effort to edit current news pages; User:Wonderlag is going to lead the effort to add freely available archives digitized by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center to newspaper entries. CogSciLibrarian ( talk) 18:53, 24 October 2019 (UTC) It was a great success! See photos on Twitter; we edited 81 articles, made 187 total edits, and added 109 references. CogSciLibrarian ( talk) 15:35, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for APN Regional News Network to be moved to APN News & Media. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 06:01, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi folks, would like to contribute, any thoughts on a state list for Washington D.C. ? Gabrielaltay ( talk) 03:41, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Template:Mbabel - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 19:46, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
{{ ISSN link}}, used in {{ Infobox newspaper}}, currently serves up empty search results for newspaper ISSNs. I've proposed a change to that template, to use issn.org rather than Worldcat. Please direct any comments thither. -- Visviva ( talk) 15:40, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
I created a statistics page for the WikiProject Newspapers, Draft:Project Newspaper statistics
It contains statistics on the importance and quality of articles in the Newspapers Project.
Let me know what you think and whether it would be useful to include. User:G._Moore, talk 17:06, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Since it has been over a year since the initial project newspapers task on U.S. states was started and all of the states now have lists of newspapers articles, I have updated the U.S. Newspapers project. Trying to simplify the article creation process steps so that it can be adapted for U.S. states or country level newspapers. Please feel free to add questions or comments. It would probably make sense to start with the State or country lists of newspapers.
User:G._Moore Talk 00:02, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Infobox newspaper#dirvisuals for discussion of adding "Director of Visuals" and "Director of Video" params to {{ Infobox newspaper}}. -- Visviva ( talk) 21:17, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
Is there anyone out there knowledgeable about Canadian newspapers? We have an article on the Barrie Advance. It was blanked by @ LiberArchivum, who then created a similar article at The Barrie Magnet/Northern Advance. LiberArchivum's edit summaries mentioned splitting the article into separate pages, but I don't know what the split might be. Can this be resolved through a simple WP:HISTMERGE, or does this require additional cleanup? - Eureka Lott 22:21, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Would some members of this WikiProject mind taking a look this article? It underwent a major expansion recently and lots of the content seems too detailed and perhaps a bit WP:UNDUE. There are various formatting and syntax errors as well as well as quite a bit of WP:Namechecking, but it's the overall tone and excessive amount of sections (some which seem redundant (like "Prestige" and "Awards") or not really warranting such detail (like "Website redesign") that makes the article (at least in my opinion) a bit promotional in nature. Someone obviously put some time into expanding the article, but perhaps they tried to add too much. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 15:29, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Newspapers. I was wondering what level of Wikidata integration you are aiming for? I was toying with the idea of trying to organize and expand journalist information in Wikidata and was curious if that sort of work is in scope for this project? Gabrielaltay ( talk) 16:23, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Scott Yates is launching a trust.txt initiative to help news publishers and associations express networks of trust online via simple text files (similar in design to robots.txt and ads.txt). Could be relevant for this project in the future. More info and the official file spec is here https://journallist.net/ Gabrielaltay ( talk) 23:23, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I was wondering, is there an overview of the most important reliable news sources for each area in the world? I recently had some conversations about territories and countries with less of an online footprint, and how sometimes it would be hard to find stories from those territories and countries because the news sources don't necessarily manage their archives the way we would hope they would. I was wondering whether we could provide a list of relevant news sources to the Internet Archive, and gently ask if they could give a little extra love and attention to those (I already requested this for two or three news sources that I use myself, and they were happy to). I suspect we may have to prioritize a bit and aim to achieve maximum coverage (so little overlap in coverage between sources). I was thinking to just make a list of one or two major news sources from each area we can define (lets start with the countries, but I'd be happy to work the way down to territories and maybe even major provinces/states).
Is there any list that you created, that could be helpful for this? I saw the general overview of news sources, but those don't seem to distinguish between major and minor. I would like to be able to go beyond what I can easily handle with my own language skills. effeiets anders 18:45, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
I described the News on Wiki campaign to an international group of Wikimedians, and they wondered where they could learn more, especially concerning efforts that go beyond the U.S. and beyond the English language Wikipedia. It was suggested we start a WikiProject page on Meta Wiki. So I did; it will probably make sense to migrate some of the content here to Meta Wiki, which might also have the side benefit of helping to simplify these WikiProject pages.
- Pete Forsyth ( talk) 19:51, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Infobox newspaper § "Free online archives". {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:43, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
All, this is rather last-minute, but if you're free, you may enjoy attending a webinar tomorrow launching Phase 2 of News On Wiki. We'll be talking with librarians Jessamyn West and Molly Schwartzburg, about how to build lists (of newspapers that need articles, and of source materials for writing articles). Hope you can join us! Free registration & all info here. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 23:04, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
To add: an easy-to-find link to "Requested articles" (for creation) on this topic--basically a "To-Do" section, which any WikiProject would be expected to have. 173.88.246.138 ( talk) 07:22, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I am doing research on a topic that is discussed in older New York Times articles (pre 1970's). I can see some of the preview text and the date, but I cannot see the author's name. It seems that only current subscribers can see the author's name. Are there editors who are NYT subscribers that can look up the author information? This must be a frequent problem. The Times is such a valuable resource for citation. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 08:14, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
New York Times) and tracable (e.g. has a link). {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys, I'm currently a university student working on the Australian Financial Review article. I would be grateful if you could give me some pointers as to what more I could include in the article and ways in which I could further improve the quality of the article. The AFR is the biggest business journalism paper in Australia (think WSJ equivalent in Australia) and thus I think it would be a great addition. Thanks for your help in advance! Lebronverstappen ( talk) 23:53, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
Here are my findings while potentially drafting a Wiki page for akiit.com: -The Daily Digest is not mentioned enough times by other sources to provide background information. It is mentioned in two reports as a contacted source for the case studies [1] The second study is the 2019 US Multicultural Media Forecast by pqmedia.com.)
-When trying to validate and reach out to staff, the page includes a lot of dead links to social media accounts and blogs. [2]
-The writers of articles are reporters for other papers.
I reached out to one staff member to gain information of the Daily Digest. I have not received a response so there is still insufficient information to properly draft Wiki page.
Thank you. Bmati88 ( talk) 19:16, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
References
Hi, in case you didn't see the announcement on our News On Wiki page, you are invited to join us today for this online edit-a-thon:
December 12, 2020 at 2-4pm Eastern time, join us for the Black-Owned Newspapers Wikipedia Edit-a-thon during WikiConference North America with AfroCROWD, featuring a speaker from Philadelphia based news publisher Philly Your Black News Click here to Register. Participants will learn how to add info to Wikipedia and Wikidata about local and Black-owned newspapers.
- Pete Forsyth ( talk) 16:46, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Would someone please check this article on Mumbai Mirror, which has I believe has been expanded recently with an opinionated point of view. I tried editing it out but was constantly reverted. Would someone mind reviewing it. defcon5 ( talk) 05:23, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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talk 05:37, 17 December 2020 (UTC)One gnomish task that I think we ought to be doing is encouraging more wikilinking of publication names in references, as this makes it easier for readers and other editors to affirm the reliability of the source. I'm not sure there's enough consensus on this to justify doing it widescale on AWB runs, but I do feel comfortable doing so as part of fixing up references with publications that are improperly named (the rationale being that if someone didn't focus enough on the reference format to get the publication name correct, they're unlikely to have a strong opinion about it being wikilinked).
There's a ton of work to do in this area, so if anyone wants to join me in taking it on, you can do so by creating an AWB list for insource:/\|work=New York Times/
and then doing a find and replace for |work=New York Times
to |work=[[The New York Times]]
. Swap out The New York Times for your the-prefixed publication of choice and have at it. Cheers, {{u|
Sdkb}}
talk 00:51, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated The Philadelphia Inquirer for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:59, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Recently Art to Tech started a draft for: Draft:Seattle Metro Homemaker I offered to give some feedback, and I figure I might as well do that here, where it might attract some others interested in the topic.
Based on earlier discussion (and like many small local papers), finding independent sources was a challenge; Art to Tech had found a couple, and I offered to look for some more. I was pleasantly surprised to find that a couple of databases hosted by my local library and accessible through my account had a not-insignificant amount of information. The databases are both ProQuest, one is the Ethnic News Watch (once you log in I think it searches multiple ProQuest databases). I did not have as much luck with NewsBank (often very useful) or Newspaper Source from EBSCOhost (which seems not great for US news).
However, what I found was that this specific publication was mentioned in passing multiple times; the publisher, Christopher Bennett (also with the middle name or initial Harold) was a longtime officer of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, he founded a Black-owned newspaper chain in 1970 and was apparently influential for decades after. The articles typically list the 3 or 4 papers in the chain, which include the HomeMaker.
Initially, Art to Tech suggested that maybe an article about the company might be a better focus than on the paper. Having found these articles (one of which refers to the HomeMaker as a "shopping guide," which sounds unlikely to meet Wikipedia's notability standards), I am inclined to agree. But, the Tacoma paper might well be notable; a little more research is probably in order for that. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 06:34, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
A fantastic new resource for this WikiProject has gone online—the entire back catalog of the trade publication Editor & Publisher. See Nieman Lab's report Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:34, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Please contribute to a discussion at Talk:The New York Times International Edition. Recently, an editor started a new article at International Herald Tribune, which had previously been a redirect to The New York Times International Edition. The former is the pre-2013 name of the latter; Wikipedia's NYT International Edition article includes the history of this newspaper through several name changes back to its Paris Herald days. Thoughts of WP:Newspapers participants are welcome. ``` t b w i l l i e ` $1.25 ` 21:17, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Two articles. Based on an extensive Gsearch, indication is that the International Herald Tribune merits its own Wikipedia entry. For example, the International Herald Tribune has its own chapter in the robust six-volume "Encyclopedia of Journalism" which covers all significant dimensions of journalism and history:
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/encyclopedia-of-journalism/book226164 — Preceding
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So, I'm a real hack when it comes to SPARQL Queries, but I'm working at putting together something similar to our state-based maps (e.g, for Oregon) that will show all newspapers in the Caribban.
I started off trying to use adapt some code from this page, to look at all newspapers within 1500 km of Port-au-Prince. But the query times out (I think because there are so many more newspapers than hospitals, and maybe also because of the subclass part.)
Next, I came up with the following, which is a union of all the newspapers in Cuba with all those in Haiti. Presumably, I could link up a few dozen clauses like that, and build a single map of all Caribbean countries/territories. But that seems awfully awkward.
- Pete Forsyth ( talk) 04:58, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Please see here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oregon#Proposing a small experiement
Summary: This proposal is to take about six months to (semi-)systematically link the titles of newspapers of Oregon politicians, in order to inform any future discussion of doing so more broadly. Thank you sdkb for your advocacy and analysis on this! - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 21:25, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
There is discussion at WT:Notability of removing WP:NMEDIA from the SNG sidebar because it is an explanatory supplement, not a guideline. This adds some urgency to the question of whether we ought to make NMEDIA a guideline (it has a more inclusive standard than the overlapping alternatives, so without it being as visible fewer newspaper pages are likely to survive AfD). Please head over there and join the discussion if you would like to share your thoughts. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 16:02, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
I think it'd be nice for us to do AWB runs to fix instances where newspaper names aren't appropriately italicized. Would it be possible to search for instances in prose outside of references where we have something like [[The Washington Post]]
without italicization? {{u|
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There is an ongoing proposal at the reliable sources noticeboard regarding The Times of India. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Circular references from The Times of India. Tayi Arajakate Talk 15:52, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
Thought the Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal at the Central Michigan University Clarke Historical Library may be of interest to this project in helping identify past and existing newspapers in Michigan, USA. The list is just a county text list with links to either a website or archive of the articles. Slow going adding these to Wikidata given the format. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 14:03, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Should the lead of the WSJ article include the following statement, "The Journal's editorial board has promoted views that are at odds with the scientific consensus on climate change, acid rain, and ozone depletion, as well as on the health dangers of passive smoking, pesticides, and asbestos." Discussion here: Talk:The_Wall_Street_Journal#Should_editorial_opinions_be_posted_in_the_lede_summary Springee ( talk) 03:48, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Organized Labour#Lead-refs needed is at the intersection of organized labour and newspapers for anyone with knowledge/interest. DMacks ( talk) 16:29, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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 "[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.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:In the news § Pulitzers. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:00, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
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) 16:08, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
There's a TFD/proposal for the project's main infobox to be merged with Infobox Magazine. Please comment. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:18, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
I recently created an article for the Winsted Citizen. Any help with expansion would be appreciated. Thriley ( talk) 20:05, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia ( per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 06:45, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
La Patilla 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. WMrapids ( talk) 22:46, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm about to go ham on unassessed articles! I've been in a groove with WP:WikiProject Journalism and I'm happy to do the same here. Trying to get through the backlog! ɯɐɔ 💬 07:16, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Daily News and Analysis#Requested move 25 September 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ❯❯❯ Raydann (Talk) 15:51, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
How does one get somewhat credible circulation numbers for a paper? From what I can tell on the Alliance for Audited Media website, if you're not a publisher you have to pay them for it, and honestly I'm not sure if one of these papers is an AAM member. Historical circulation numbers would be awesome if they exist. The two papers that prompted this are the Rome Sentinel and Observer-Dispatch (and a vandal, who probably works at one of these papers, who keeps adding text about how much greater one is than the other) but I'd probably do others if I knew where to get the information. Apocheir ( talk) 00:13, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Rome Sentinel#Requested move 31 December 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. SkyWarrior 01:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:SME (newspaper)#Requested move 9 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 15:49, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
I am writing about WikiProject Magazines and Newspapers for an upcoming issue of The Signpost and would love your participation. Feel free to directly answer the questions already listed in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/WikiProject report § Interview. You can find two previous WikiProject reports on Israel and Palestine and Organized Labour I wrote to understand my writing style. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 01:55, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of newspapers in the United States#Requested move 1 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 22:31, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Three editors are now splitting the article and making massive changes and deletions. One of the editors does not leave edit summaries even for massive deletions or massive changes, even though they were reported to ANI 12 days ago for similar behavior on this same article [1]. In my opinion, more eyes need to be on the article and on what is being done. Thank you. Softlavender ( talk) 01:18, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Articles that you have been involved in editing— Indicia (publishing) , Impressum , and Masthead (American publishing) —have been proposed for merging with Nameplate (publishing). If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Cnilep ( talk) 01:34, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
This book History of California Newspapers, published in 1962, appears to never have had its copyright renewed. Google apparently determined it is in the public domain. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 18:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
If you're interested in getting involved with Wikisource (or are already experienced there), the wikisource:en:Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/April 2024April 2024 "collaboration of the month" project is a great fit: we're proofreading a transcription of George Henry Payne's 1920 book History of Journalism in the United States.
Editing at Wikisource can take some getting used to, but the Collaboration of the Month project is a great way to get some pointers. Feel free to reach out to me directly if you want guidance or a basic intro. Pete Forsyth ( talk) 23:11, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
So there are seven list-type articles part of the Newspaper Project that seem unnecessary, outdated, difficult to maintain and incomplete. These articles were probably made before most papers moved online or decreased their number of weekly print editions. I propose we delete these list articles, and I'll outline my reasons why:
List of family-owned newspapers in the United States hasn't been updated since 2012 and it is very incomplete. It's also hard to determine which newspapers are and aren't family-owned, and I don't know why people would care either way. So we should delete it.
List of free daily newspapers is also very incomplete and unnecessary. It also doesn't take into account newspapers with free websites or online-only newspapers. So it should go.
List of international newspapers originating in the United States is obviously inaccurate and hasn't been updated since 2008. The Internet makes every publication an international newspaper as they're assessable around the world. So not special and not needed.
List of national newspapers is redundant because all of these newspapers are listed on their respective country list pages anyway. Delete.
List of newspapers serving cities over 100,000 in the United States should go because I'm not sure why people would care if a paper is in a highly populated city or not. Most papers have a county-wide coverage area and can be viewed from anywhere because of the Internet. So this page should be deleted.
List of weekly newspapers in the United States is obviously incomplete and doesn't matter. Most legacy dailies have cut back their print edition days, and most weekly outlets publish content daily online. So this list doesn't matter.
List of defunct newspapers of the United States is out of date, clearly incomplete and not needed. The content can be merged into each state's newspaper list and then this page deleted. Plus the "Category:Defunct newspapers published in the United States" serves the same function.
What do you guys think? Eric Schucht ( talk) 03:54, 16 May 2024 (UTC)