Talk:The Believer (magazine)

Noting cover illustrations
All the cover illustration information that User:68.236.214.31 has been putting up is awesome, but it makes the "published issues" list unreadable. I'm moving the illustration notes to a separate list, which would be silly for other magazines but for The Believer makes a bit of sense, and could maybe be expanded to include notes on other illustrations in each given issue. --Tarnas 22:13, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Publication description
I don't think there's any need to copy The Believer's "About" section verbatim... the website is linked below for those interested, though the encyclopedic description could be expanded a little. --Tarnas 02:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Inclusion of real, commercial advertisements
Until The Believer began running commercial ads on its inside back covers in early '07, McSweeney's periodicals had never included ads for non-McSweeney's stuff.

Previously, all ads in McSweeney's publications were either artful, high-concept jokes (as in The Believer's sweet "Personal Ads for Poets" feature from March '05) or ads for actual McSweeney's products (as in the full-page ad for The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature in McSweeney's Quarterly #5).

All that, combined with the fact that The Believer had long been promoted/lauded as specifically "ad-free" makes the inclusion of ads in The Believer worth noting. -- Bigcharles 18:45, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

John D’Agata
Shouldn't the "fact" "article" by John D’Agata be briefly mentioned? [[Special:Contributions/202.179.16.71|202.179.16.71] (talk) 03:27, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know why John D'Agata is redlinked: I C&P'd it from the Wik site title. 202.179.16.71 (talk) 03:30, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:The believer (magazine) cover.gif
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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Is The believer (magazine) defunct?
The most recent issue, according to their Web site is Fall 2015.Yet they claim to publish 8 issues per year. Also, Karolina Waclawiak is listed as an editor http://www.believermag.com/about/ but her web site http://www.karolinawaclawiak.com/?page_id=60 says, "Formerly an editor at the Believer, she is now the Deputy Culture Editor at BuzzFeed." Peter K Burian (talk) 00:05, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Believer's old domain redirects to culture.org
Hoping The Believer (magazine) article will include explanation of why old domain redirects to culture.org (some The Believer content is now at culture.org). Oldest version of The Believer (magazine) links to www.believermag.com, with official link wiki-updated to thebeliever.net with a 6 October 2022 edit. The old believermag.com URL redirects to https://culture.org/ with some of the old URLs redirecting to URL at new domain: example http://web.archive.org/web/20220511024018/http://believermag.com/logger/ including link to http://web.archive.org/web/20220510162401/https://believermag.com/logger/the-real-horror-of-night-in-the-woods/ were the livelink now redirects to https://culture.org/logger/the-real-horror-of-night-in-the-woods/ (but without crediting the author "Ellie Kovach" (compared with example piece at old domain http://web.archive.org/web/20220510160447/https://believermag.com/pencil-pushing/ where the live link just redirects to culture.org homepage) Cybersquatted?? or something else such as an incomplete transition?? EarthFurst (talk) 19:02, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @EarthFurst, Culture.org brings up a pop-up banner that says "You are viewing an archive. For new Believer content, visit TheBeliever.net." It appears that (possibly between the shutdown and the repurchase by McSweeney's) someone archived the old site to culture.org. That pop-up is the closest thing I can find to explain the relationship between believermag.com, culture.org, and thebeliever.net. Schazjmd   (talk)  19:14, 17 October 2023 (UTC)