Talk:International Affairs (journal)

Promotional tone
The article was expanded by WP:SPA, but sadly, this rewrite is clearly promotional, with wording in lead such as ' highly regarded ', 'leading journal'. Only the 'featured work by some of the leading figures in global politics and academia' claim seems substantiated, the rest is rather subjective, and even so the word leading (used twice in the lead at some point) is hardly neutral. A good chunk of the history is WP:OR/WP:PRIMARY. Wikipedia is not the place to publish an essay about a history or importance of the journal. If a journal board want to write such an item up, they should have it published in a peer review outlet that is preferably not their own journal (through I'll note that when I wrote the entry for the International Sociological Association, I used a non-peer reviewed study published by ISA itself, since nobody else bothered to discuss ISA's significance/history in-depth). User:Randykitty suggested we remove all the OR/PRIMARY stuff; I am not so sure - it seems moderately useful, if promotional/ORish. The journal is notable, the question is can we keep the entry that is in the end not based on required independent sources? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 12:42, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

This page has since been updated with promotional language removed.