Talk:The Harvard Advocate

Presidents list
Does anyone else think that the 'past president' page should just be turned into 'notable past presidents' and only those who have a page of their own should be included? This seems like self-promotion by the club, I doubt anyone is looking up who the president in 1967 was if that person is not anyone famous. A link to their website could be provided if people are really looking for that information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.14.195 (talk • contribs) 04:29, October 11, 2011‎
 * I'm of two minds about this, but I think a case could be made for only including those persons for whom we have a blue link. --Tryptofish (talk) 16:23, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The applicable guideline is WP:NLIST. It indicates that the list, as it is now, is permitted, but not required, so there's a matter of editorial judgment. --Tryptofish (talk) 16:31, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

I got the idea of making the list clickably hide-or-show, which may be a reasonable compromise. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:31, 12 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Please see the edit summary for this edit:, for why the section is now formatted the way that it is. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:53, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Sourcing
As it stands, this article appears to be almost entirely lacking in the third-party sources necessary to establish notability of the subject. I suggest that this is rectified.

It should also be noted that citing the 'Harvard Advocate Archives' might possibly also be seen as questionable, as they appear not to be published works. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:42, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Andy, those are valid points, thanks. To some extent, I think WP:ABOUTSELF and WP:SOURCEACCESS, do apply here, with respect to WP:V. Given the prominence of some of the people who (before becoming prominent), were on the magazine, third party notice does exist. Here, for example, is coverage in the New York Times: . --Tryptofish (talk) 21:39, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Sourcing 2
By way of explanation to the editors (students, I'm pretty sure) who are adding names of past members, where you see me adding the "" tag, what that means is that there should be a source given that the person actually was on The Advocate. Perhaps the existing link to the archives is what you want, but please provide a source for every person. Thanks. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:29, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello, I'm a current member of the Advocate who has been culling the archives, looking at mastheads and editing the page. I've opted for the citation "Harvard Advocate Archives" in a lot of cases. We are in the process of digitizing every old issue at which time all of the mastheads will be online and linkable. Is this citation limbo ok for the time being? --22hayden22 19:25 (EDT) 27, June 2014
 * Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia (from a long-ago former member, by the way)! The "official" Wikipedia answer to your question is to point to WP:Verifiability, which requires everything to be cited, especially since another editor (in the talk section immediately above) has expressed concern about sourcing. If, in the future, it will be possible to cite the Advocate issue XX, year XXXX, specifically for each person, that would be excellent, and it's perfectly fine to use a lesser workaround in the mean time. But what I would advise against is to simply add names with no superscript link to a citation at the end of the line. That's what a lot of student edits have been doing lately, and that's why I keep adding the "cite needed" tag. You run the risk of someone else (not me) coming along and deleting everything you are adding. For now, putting " ", as I see you have just started to do, is entirely satisfactory. Please continue to do that. In the future, adding more exact details would be welcome, but there is no hurry for that. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:41, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

FDR
I don't have access to the archives, but I have a recollection of hearing that Franklin Roosevelt was on the Advocate. We already have Theodore on this page, but maybe someone with access to the archives could check whether FDR should be added too. Thanks. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:43, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:The Harvard Advocate people
Category:The Harvard Advocate people has been nominated for renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:41, 30 December 2017 (UTC)


 * This discussion has been reopened at Talk:The Harvard Crimson. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:12, 10 January 2018 (UTC)