Talk:The Mail on Sunday

Was not allowed the Sunday Mail name (info is already in the Sunday Mail page on Wikipedia)
Obviously the norm is that a Sunday edition of a newspaper merely has "Sunday" replacing "Daily" in the title - Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Express, Sunday Mirror, etc.

The Daily Mail wanted that norm followed, but launched its Sunday version (for some reason waiting until the 1980's when others had done it decades earlier) by which time a newspaper called The Sunday Mail already existed in Scotland - and so a different name for it had to be found - hence The Mail On Sunday.

Re the Sunday Mail page on Wikipedia; "It should not be confused with The Mail on Sunday; the Daily Mail was unable to use the title Sunday Mail when it launched a Sunday edition in 1982 because of the Scottish paper."

Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Mail_(Scotland)#History

Both newspaper pages on Wikipedia should carry that info. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.210.174 (talk) 13:39, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 03:57, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm suggesting moving this page to The Mail on Sunday as this is the full title. Pafcool2 (talk) 17:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Agree It is also the name on their masthead and in line with WP to include the definite article. The software disallowed my attempt. Philip Cross (talk) 17:31, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Support based on masthead. Compulsions70 (talk) 17:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, but Mail on Sunday has to stay as a redirect to The Mail on Sunday. Someone tried to make Mail on Sunday (album) the main target for this name, which is just ridiculous. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:00, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Support from the Mail
If I had had the kind of "support" the Conservative Party has allegedly "invariably had" from the Daily Mail, I would cut my throat and have done with it.

82.10.145.63 (talk) 13:41, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Sections
Why has the ammendement made to the sections of the newspaper been altered back to what it was before it was updated, by an American contributor, based on the sections displayed in the picture? This amendement was made by someone who lives in the UK, who actually takes the paper every Sunday and who knows that what was listed there before, are not the current sections, which are Review, Sport and the You and Live magazines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.213.213.238 (talk) 17:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
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Roller skating in first edition
I think this might actually be roller hockey, and a match between British and Argentinian teams in Lisbon (not the Netherlands) which obviously was newsworthy beyond the minor status of the sport itself. Scroll to the end here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGd_z5g0Zsg - there are microfilms on open display at the British Library, but I can't get there very often and have other stuff to check which means more to me. RobinCarmody (talk) 23:11, 14 April 2019 (UTC)