Talk:The Signpost

COI edit
I just noticed that the editor-in-chief position is listed as "vacant". I've been editor-n-chief for about 20 months now. That's about the 3rd or 4th longest tenure of anybody in the position. See Wikipedia Signpost/About. Yes, I know that it's a conflict of interest, but I'll change that to "Smallbones".

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 16:11, 9 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Straight factual edit, thank you. (From a former COI holder.) -Pete Forsyth (talk) 16:21, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Disclosing my COI as well for changing the infobox once again. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 06:21, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Man, this article could really do with a rewrite. Oh well. jp×g 23:20, 5 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Disclosing mine for this. jp×g 16:05, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

How is this a Good Article with so many references to Wikipedia?
Hello editors, I came across this good article and found over 15 citations to Wikipedia Signpost. While these can be used for minor things that are not contentious, much of the history section is soured entirely to Wikipedia Signpost. This is a huge violation of WP:PRIMARY, and WP:USERG. JackFromWisconsin (talk &#124; contribs) 17:28, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You should take a read of WP:ABOUTSELF. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:34, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

I refuse to cite myself in mainspace but an update is necessary
jp×g 16:37, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Specific text to be added or removed: I have updated the history section in this diff, but have left the material commented out due to an obvious conflict of interest (I am the current editor-in-chief, and on top of that, one of the citations is to my own writing). While it is traditional for EiCs to add themselves to the infobox, this involves adding new prose to the article body, so I am requesting an edit out of an abundance of caution.
 * Reason for the change: Currently, the editorial history only goes up to 2015 -- much of the article is in bad shape, but this seemed quite obvious and straightforward. My guess is that any person who cares enough about the Signpost to update the article probably also cares enough to write for it, meaning we have a dire lack of qualified editors without conflicts of interest.
 * References supporting change: Numerous, although additional sources need to be found for a couple things that can currently only be referenced to talk pages. While citing the Signpost is within policy (per WP:ABOUTSELF), citing talk pages seems to be stretching the absolute limits of credibility, so I refuse to do it.
 * Without commenting on COI/OR/ABOUTSELF issues: This commented-out diff is inaccurate in parts and contradicts the timeline in the Signpost's official About page.
 * Go Phightins! would continue until August [2016], when the role was passed to Andreas Kolbe and Pete Forsyth. - the cited article doesn't say that regarding Andreas; to the contrary, the wording there makes it pretty clear that he had already been serving in that role ("delighted to welcome Pete Forsyth as my new co-editor-in-chief"); he had already become co-editor-in-chief in May 2016.
 * EpicPupper resigned in October 2022 (not September)
 * Also, we should avoid "currently ..." per WP:DATED.
 * Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:09, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, well, now there's two of us down here with conflicts of interest! I guess trying to iron out the timeline is a harder task than I thought, so I shall retreat to the newsroom in ignominy and try to figure it out again. jp×g 05:14, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * This is extra-stupid, since I was the one who linked the dates in the About section too -- I am currently doing a review of all Signpost releases anyway, so I will get to all of this in due time (so far I have gotten to 2006). I didn't actually think anyone would respond to the edit request this soon, so I figured I had a couple days to wrangle in some proper citations and go over the dates again. Serves me right! jp×g 05:18, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Edit request approved and implemented.  Spencer T• C 21:36, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Signpost.news
My understanding (cc: ) is that The Signpost is now published both on its Wikipedia URL and also on a standalone website. Is this correct and, if so, how should this standalone website be reflected in the infobox? — Red-tailed hawk  (nest) 20:56, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Graph of Wikipedia
I NEED a discussion of this most excellent video:. Please link me to one :-) Cheers Video "I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found" by adumb if it for some reason disappears. CapnZapp (talk) 20:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)