Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Journalism/Archive 3

Good article template
Consensus has been reached to use the template: Please feel free to add it to all WP:GA rated articles within this WikiProject, in the same manner of placement used as featured article. Thanks for all of your quality improvement work within the topic of this WikiProject! :) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 15:08, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Good article

Please join merge discussion on The New York Times and the Holocaust
Cimicifugia (talk) 13:40, 7 June 2010 (UTC)cimicifugia


 * I'm not getting anything at that link. CheeseStakeholder (talk) 15:14, 8 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Discussion is at The New York Times and the Holocaust. CheeseStakeholder (talk) 14:59, 11 June 2010 (UTC)


 * The header has now been corrected, thanks CheeseStakeholder.MZionC (talk) 19:22, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Interviewer history
The subject of this orphan was interviewed by Brian Krebs. There is no interviews list on the journalist's page, and I wondered whether such a list would be considered significant material to cover. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 09:03, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Opinion needed
Was the Courante published in the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (The Netherlands)" or in the "Dutch Republic (The Netherlands)"? See Talk:List of newspapers by establishment date Gun Powder Ma (talk) 12:37, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Just created: JournoList
Have fun with it. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 19:43, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

AFD notice: List of newspapers by establishment date
At Articles for deletion/List of newspapers by establishment date (2nd nomination).

Please comment or improve it! East of Borschov 10:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Newspaper circulation
I didn't really know where to ask this, but this project seemed like it could handle my question. I've been working on bringing the Meridian, Mississippi article up to GA status, and one of the issues brought up in the GAN is that the circulation given for The Meridian Star, the city's only daily newspaper, is not dated. In fact, there are several numbers floating around on the internet, all of which are undated, and none of which are equivalent. Is there some central location or agency that publishes dated circulations of newspapers? The circulation is only about 16K, so it's a very small newspaper (for a very small city), so that makes it even harder to find information about it. In fact, the entire Meridian Star article is pretty much unsourced. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! --Dudemanfellabra (talk) 03:35, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Not a member, but I found the Audit Bureau of Circulations to be a good source for circulation data (see here). ​​​​​​ ​​ Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 16:53, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for! --Dudemanfellabra (talk) 17:16, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


 * http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020112/ Is also a great startpoint.MZionC (talk) 19:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

AFD on The Ann Arbor Masonic News
Please see Articles for deletion/The Ann Arbor Masonic News. --doncram (talk) 15:47, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

New article Disability in the media
Disability in the media is a new article created by members of WikiProject Disability. We would welcome participation from members of this project. The article is intended to be an overview of the way the media deals with topics related to disability. It is just a rough stub at present so there is a lot of scope for expansion. I am the originator of the article. Roger (talk) 11:04, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

John Arlott
john championed dylan thomas which is as important as his cricket broadcasting. the article should also describe apartheid as abhorrent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.179.2 (talk) 12:04, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Paddlesworth - spoof newspaper etc - help needed
Today an internet spoof has been launched based on Paddlesworth a small village in Kent (see Guardian report & fake newspaper. It is likely that this will lead to disruptive edits to the village article & I would welcome the help of others in keeping an eye on it. I think wikipedia should probably have an article on the spoof (once there is enough coverage) but we need to inform readers what is real & what is spoof - I'm not sure of the best way to do this & I would appreciate any help.&mdash; Rod talk 10:09, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Media event article needs attention
I found this article while looking for information on the social impact for media events but this article needs a lot of attention from someone knowledgeable in the field. I flagged the talk page template "as needs" attention but not sure who sees that flag. Good luck with it.

P/S: If you have any good sources that discuss the social impact of a global media event I can use as background for a similar section in our Chilean miners rescue article, or want to help us make that section more academic then it is now, I would truly appreciate it. Cheers, Veriss (talk) 23:16, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The Daily Show: Indecision 2006
The article The Daily Show: Indecision 2006 has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references ("The Daily Show" "Indecision 2006") found a few published (gBooks) minor mentions of the subject, fails WP:N.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 16:26, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System for deletion
A discussion has begun about whether the article Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System, which is relevant to the subject of this WikiProject, should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 18:05, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Ibrahim Ben Kargbo
There was a user that posted to WP:BLPN requesting individuals to expand upon and improve this article. Perhaps members of this WikiProject might be interested in helping out. :) -- Cirt (talk) 16:04, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Sister publication
Hello. If anybody know what a sister publication exactly is, please create the article; a search returns 677 hits on wikipedia. Thank you, Comte0 (talk) 16:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Sources for basic facts about UPI's history
UPI and journalism generally are way outside of my usual interests. I just stumbled on this article. Its history section had never been properly footnoted and, as a result, was done away with, so that the basic facts of UP's origin and 1958 merger to become UPI were missing (though paradoxically a section header still announces "Creating UPI" while offering no information on that subject). See the article history and talk page. My point here isn't my disagreement with the editor who wants the whole section removed under WP:BURDEN vs. my more patient approach to getting ideally written and footnoted articles to emerge from the crowd (though any help here would have the added bonus of solving that disagreement). It's simply that I generally work to footnote articles about Ancient Greek, and I'm hoping someone in WikiProject Journalism might want to work closer to their own comfort zone to footnote this article about a major news agency. It's a shame for the article to be missing the basic facts in this way. Wareh (talk) 00:16, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

New article: The Best American Magazine Writing 2007
New article, created, at The Best American Magazine Writing 2007. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 00:19, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Where's Perry White when you really need him?
User:Urbanhistorian has been adding what appears to be every single thing published by National Tribune. Since, AFAIK, that's not the objective of the page, I've messaged him about it. I've gotten a "go pick on Canada" response, but the listing remains, & appears to be growing. Am I so wrong about deleting it? Also, there seems to be a sense of WP:OWN at play. Can I get other views here? Thx. TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  03:12, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Wilbert Rideau content dispute
Please see Talk:Wilbert_Rideau - As there is a dispute over how much "weight" should be given to Billy Sinclair's role in Wilbert Rideau's life and career. WhisperToMe (talk) 14:33, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Can anyone help? Sources!
I'm trying to find sources for information on British magazines, journals, newpapers etc. published in the early-to-mid 1900's, and finding it hard! Does anyone know of any good citable material for this kind of stuff? Pesky ( talk ) 08:37, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Santorum (neologism)
This article has recently been expanded with additional sources and referencing improvements. There is also some ongoing discussion about that, at the article's talk page. If you are interested, please have a look at Santorum (neologism) and the associated talk page discussion at Talk:Santorum (neologism). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 20:50, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Santorum (neologism)

Blind item
The article Blind item, about a style of journalism, has just been expanded by an IP. I'm dubious about some of the new content but someone on this WikiProject may want to have a look.

Yaris678 (talk) 16:57, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

New article - Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist
New article, of interest to project members. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 05:34, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist

Politics related navigational template nominated for deletion
The navigational template Political neologisms has been nominated for deletion. Please see discussion, at Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_May_25. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 17:53, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

New page - created - Dan Savage bibliography
Newly created page, Dan Savage bibliography. Feedback and ideas for additional information and secondary sources would be appreciated, at the article's talk page. -- Cirt (talk) 06:50, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Dan Savage bibliography

Unreferenced BLPs - the final surge
Since early in 2010, many editors have assisted in the referencing or removal of over 90% of the Unreferenced Biographies of Living People, bringing the total down from over 50,000 to the current 4,861 (as of 16:00, 1 June 2011 (UTC)). Thank you for all of the work you've done to date, but we are now asking for your help in finishing this task. There are two main projects which are devoted to removing UBLPs from en.Wikipedia:
 * WP:URBLP has set up a large number of topic based lists, which are updated each day by a WP:BOT. Your project's list is located at WikiProject Journalism/Unreferenced BLPs and currently contains 256 articles.
 * WP:URBLPR is focusing on clearing out the backlog based on the month in which each article was tagged as being unreferenced. The current task is Category:Unreferenced BLPs from September 2009, and it is the last month remaining from 2009.
 * You can also reference a or make your own lists using one of the catscan tools, such as this search for |9&doit=1 English journalists.

All you have to do is pick your articles and then add suitable references from reliable sources and remove the BLP unsourced template. There is no need to log your changes, register or remove the articles from the list. If you need any help, or have any comments, please ask at WP:URBLPR or WT:URBLP.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide. The-Pope (talk) 16:00, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

List Peer Review - Dan Savage bibliography
This page is undergoing a List Peer Review, feel free to provide feedback, at Peer review/Dan Savage bibliography/archive1. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 19:10, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Dan Savage bibliography

Request for comment - Santorum (neologism)
Request for Comment discussion started, please see Talk:Santorum_(neologism).
 * Santorum (neologism)
 * Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 14:29, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

New AfD of article in this project
Please see Articles for deletion/United States journalism scandals (3rd nomination). BigJim707 (talk) 14:49, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Notability of journalists
There's currently a discussion under way about whether to include advice on journalist biographies in out notability guidelines (particularly relating to broadcast journalism). Please feel free to add your thoughts to the discussion. Cheers Paul MacDermott (talk) 19:47, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Notability of news sources
I've run across ‎Wisconsin Reporter on new page patrol and I'm not sure about its notability. Additionally, the organization belongs to Statehouse News Online, a network of similar "news" organizations. Besides notability, the pages feel spammy to me. Several have/had links to the websites in the lede. As there's no notability guideline specifically about news sources I thought I'd come here for help. The actions of these websites seem decidedly bias to me which makes me think the articles' content may also be bias especially since the author has made statements like this. I'm looking into filing a report at WP:NPOVN but until then, I thought I could use some help assessing notability of Statehouse News Online and the other articles in that network from people who actually know something about journalism (because I sure as hell don't).  Ol Yeller21 Talktome  21:43, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I should note, I'm not saying that a news source having an admitted or omitted bias is a problem. I'm only saying it's a problem if that bias somehow makes the article bias. If we removed every news source that someone thinks is bias from Wikipedia, we may not have any news sources on here anymore!  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  21:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Is this project active? I looks like there hasn't been any discussion from members since May of 2010 (via archive 2).  Ol Yeller21  Talktome  16:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Nazeer Naji
I have proposed deletion of this article because it is an attack page, and a quick look failed to show evidence of satisfying WP:AUTHOR. Johnuniq (talk) 00:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Suggest you also post about this to WP:BLPN. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 06:07, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Missing topics
I've updated my list of missing topics related to journalism and media - Skysmith (talk) 13:47, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It might be more productive to convert this into a todo page for these Journalism and Media projects. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 14:01, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Journalism articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Journalism articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:12, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Sister publication
Hello. If anybody know what a sister publication exactly is, please create the article; a search returns 677 hits on wikipedia. Thank you, Comte0 (talk) 16:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * This thread was wrongly deleted by a broken archive bot before it was ever discussed. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 13:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 20,765 for Sister publication, searched by O = M C 4  16:18, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Reference Gunnison Country Times article page volunteers to be a sister publication with any Wikimedia Foundation Project Publication article including any inter-language inter-wiki project publication. O = M C 4  16:18, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Tabloid journalism
I've split Tabloid journalism from Tabloid (now focused on the format). Tabloid journalism is lacking in sources and the interwiki links are confused. Any help would be appreciated.  Will Beback   talk    03:50, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Help with CPJ awards?
I've recently been working on filling in all the winners of the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards in an effort to fill in gaps in the large gaps in Wikipedia's international journalism coverage. Anybody want to help? It seems a shame to not have articles on the top journalists of developing nations, especially when so many of them are risking their lives for their coverage. Below, if you're interested, is the template I'm using as a guide; just grab a redlink. As they say, many hands make light systemic bias...


 * I'll try to help with some missing bios.  Timbouctou ( talk ) 12:56, 9 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks--I think these will be a terrific addition to our journalism coverage. Cheers, Khazar (talk) 13:46, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Collaboration on US Supreme Court case article improvement
Wehwalt and myself will be collaborating together to improve the quality of this article. Others are welcome to help out with research, writing, and copyediting. :) -- Cirt (talk) 18:26, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart

Leigh Brownlee
Over at the WP:CRIC cricket project, I've created an article on the chap above, who played 82 first-class cricket matches in the first decade of the 20th century. A little later on, he became editor of the Daily Mirror at a particularly low point in its history, but I have no decent sources of information on his career in journalism or the circumstances of his departure from the Mirror, or on what he did afterwards. Does anyone have any ideas? At WP:CRIT someone has kindly provided a list of potentially relevant books that members of this project might just possess. Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 07:53, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Major and lesser Pulitzer prizes
Does anyone have any information on the relative importance of the various Pulitzers. See here for the discussion?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:50, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Created new article on US Supreme Court case = Time, Inc. v. Hill
I have created a new article on the U.S. Supreme Court case, Time, Inc. v. Hill. Feedback and especially help with additional research would be appreciated, at the new article's talk page. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:17, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Time, Inc. v. Hill

Media in Uganda
Could use some more eyes on Media in Uganda especially those with some expertise in journalism. Is the article sufficiently cited? Is the language neutral?--RadioFan (talk) 23:49, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Draft "Homophobia in the media" article
Hi, is anyone here interested in helping a potential article get off the ground? User:Jenova20/Homophobia in the media is just starting up but i could do with someone who knows how to actually make this into an article. Thanks  J e n o v a  20 16:24, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

C-SPAN video + External links project invite
I'd like to invite anyone involved with this project to help out with a project I have been working on related to C-SPAN. The C-SPAN Video Library has thousands of landing pages about specific individuals who have appeared on the network, and Wikipedia editors have recognized the value of including these in External links by creating Template:C-SPAN and adding a relevant parameter in Template:CongLinks.

Unsurprisingly, however, the C-SPAN Video Library link is missing from many articles, including a few that may surprise: George H.W. Bush for one, and Edward Kennedy for another. I work with C-SPAN's media team (I helped bring their main article up to GA status earlier this year) and I suggested that I find as many gaps as possible and then seek to invite other editors to help fill them. They agreed. To this end I have started a project page in my own user space to identify pages where it is missing and make available the specific markup text necessary to include that link, and keeping whatever relevant markup was there before. You can see the first few I have located here, and more will be posted soon: User:WWB_Too/C-SPAN_ELs

I'm posting this here because the main C-SPAN page is included in this WikiProject, and I figure I stand the best chance of finding interested collaborators here. Please let me know if you'd like to help, or if you have any other questions. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 19:54, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Al Jazeera Balkans
I have created this article today following the channels launch and I will try to find out more information to expand it - but I would apreciate any improvements other editors could make to the article. Thanks Uvghifds (talk) 18:28, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Suggest formatting the references with cite templates, read WP:CITE and WP:CIT. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:51, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

The Beverly Hills Courier
Minor publication. I reworked this article as it was written in a self-important sort of way. with no references. There are still some references needed, but otherwise I think the article is in fair-to-decent shape. Any input would be treasured. SueDonem (talk) 20:12, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Nice work so far! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:51, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Jonathan Agnew
Hi. I've been working for some months now on taking this article, which falls into your WikiProject, to FA status. I was wondering how you allocate your "importance" tags.

Agnew is pretty much a household name in the UK, as the longstanding BBC cricket correspondent, and one of the two radio commentators involved in "the greatest sporting commentary ever" according to a BBC poll; he has also been described as "one of the most highly regarded cricket ­commentators in the world." I'd be grateful for a review. --Dweller (talk) 10:09, 18 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Lede seems a little too short. And there are some one-sentence-long and short paragraphs. Could use some copyediting, for flow. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:50, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I was looking for help with the WikiProject's "importance" rating. --Dweller (talk) 15:01, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably what it is currently rated at, "Low", as though he's an important journalist, he's not necessarily one of the most important figures in the field of journalism itself, as compared to, say, David Frost or Walter Cronkite. That's just my personal opinion, however. ;) Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:48, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I notice that neither of those have importance ratings allocated. I'd guess they were both "top" importance. Below "top", there's "high" and "mid" before one hits "low". I'd suggest Agnew is probably more accurately "mid", as the leading exponenet in his field. --Dweller (talk) 13:55, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * "Mid" sounds reasonable, if he's that important in UK journalism generally and cricket journalism globally. Cronkite and such could be "High" (if he's recognized outside North America as being important, a question I can't really answer), but I don't think anyone can be "Top" importance, because that's generally for the tiny handful of, well, top-level articles, like for this project Journalism, Journalist, News, Newspaper, Magazine, Mass media, etc. Individual bios don't reach that level of overarching encyclopedic generality, even when they're flagged as Vital Articles or picked for WP1.0 distribution (it's a different kind of prioritization). — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 13:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Andrew Orlowski
I was looking at the Andrew Orlowski article and I had concerns about notability when I had a go at seeing if any secondary source mentioned all the stuff he wrote about climate change. He has got hundreds of things on the web by him in the Register but I can't find much comment about him or anything he's written in reliable sources. Is there some provision for journalists who have I guess a reasonable sized influence on the web but I can't find much comment about in reliable sources? Or should I just put an AfD on and see where it goes from there? Dmcq (talk) 13:34, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * WP:AFD is for proposing actual deletion of an article, not for tricking people into doing research for you, a WP:POINT misused of AfD. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 13:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Mass media
Hi! I have recently decided to take on the mass media article (which is a VA - vital article) as a pet project. The article is currently a stub class. At the moment I am trying to work through it, albeit at a snails pace, and as a less-than-experienced editor, I am finding it to be quite a challenge. My aim is to rally together a few editors from various Wikiprojects to bring their unique skills and knowledge to help this important article grow and flourish. I was wondering if anyone from your project could give me a hand. --Coin945 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Archiving fault, discussions have been deleted
The archiving malfunctioned on this page, I've deleted the faulty config, too tired to repair the mess though, help would be appreciated. Penyulap  talk 22:25, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. And a forced-archival bot should never be used on a low-traffic project talk page like this, or it effectively kills collaboration. That kind of bot is intended for very high-traffic talk pages that become ridiculously long in short spans of time (e.g. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style). — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 13:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Template:UK newspapers
This template is largely sub-divided on the basis of paper size, but I think 'middle-market' is an incorrect sub-division as this denotes the target market of the paper, rather than paper size. It could also be argued that tabloid can be describing both the size of paper and its audience. As a wider point is there a better way of sub-dividing the papers - by target audience (e.g. middle-market, although this is clearly subjective), by publisher, or perhaps just split into dailies and sundays? Eldumpo (talk) 12:37, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Definitely needs work, but should be discussed at the template page. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 13:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Merge redundant media projects into taskforces/workgroups, including WP:JOURN into WP:WPMEDIA
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media. This project has been proposed for merging into WP:WikiProject Media, as the two projects overlap to a very confusing, unhelpful and collaboration-hindering extent, and this one is an obvious subset of the other. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 01:01, 25 September 2010 (UTC); updated 14:35, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Shield laws in the United States
This article is really a mess. It's an important topic for which there is plenty of source material available. The article should really give a state-by-state summary of laws and decisions. I am also bringing this to the attention of WikiProject Law. Yworo (talk) 16:30, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Template:ESPYs
There is a discussion about the use of ESPYs at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Journalism will have interest in putting on events related to women's roles in journalism - as writers, subject matter, publishers, etc. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Adopt a hero?
As some of you know, I've been working for a while to try to increase WP's coverage of world journalists, as a part of both this project and WP:WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias. While the US, UK, and Australia seem well-covered, up until last week, we still didn't even have articles on Steven Gan (Malaysia) and Aboubakr Jamai (Morocco), for example, each of whom is widely recognized as a leading journalist of his country, and whose struggles for press freedom have been regularly covered in world media. I'm glad to say that we now have at least a stub for each of the 100 or so CPJ International Press Freedom Award laureates, which has been a pet project of mine for a while, but working through these has also shown me how much is still missing.

I'm now setting my sights on a new list, the 50 International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes of the 20th century. Sadly, even on this one, we still have 14 redlinks, and many more articles in need of cleanup. (There's still some CPJ winners badly in need of cleanup, but I'm trying to prioritize the completely missing first.) I'm hoping to start filling in a few of these each week myself... would anyone like to pitch in on this project by adopting a redlink?

Thanks everybody, Khazar (talk) 13:26, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

United States v. The Progressive
This is a fascinating legal case, anyone want to collaborate on improving the page with me? Please leave a note on my user talk page, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:18, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * United States v. The Progressive

Category:Arrests of journalists
Category:Arrests of journalists, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion or repurposing. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

New article on film director Oliver Blackburn
I've created this new article. If you've got additional input for secondary sources, please feel free to suggest them at the article's talk page, I'd really appreciate it. :) Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 07:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Oliver Blackburn

Additions to Bloomberg Markets Article
Hi, I wanted to propose additions to the Bloomberg Markets article. Currently, the article lacks any significant information and has been flagged for poor citations. I have create a built-out draft of the article in my sandbox User:RivBitz/Bloomberg_Markets_Sandbox for review. I would like to note that I work on behalf of Bloomberg L.P. and realize that creates a conflict of interest. My COI has been acknowledged in the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard here to make sure that any edits I propose are handled under all Wikipedia guidelines. Because of this, I would appreciate it if someone else would take a look at my draft, and if deemed appropriate, please implement the changes into the current article. Thank you for your help. --RivBitz (talk) 20:57, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Deletions at New York Review of Books
Would someone please review this deletion? I believe that this material ought to be in the article, as it simply describes the content of this publication. Note that the statement is referenced to Commentary (magazine) in addition to the blog Mondoweiss (which appears to be a well-edited, respected blog). But, if the problem is simply the reference to the blog, let's just delete the blog reference and rely on the Commentary reference. At a minimum, the article should mention that there is international content in the New York Review of Books. Thanks! -- 66.65.112.230 (talk) 14:48, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Ken Pomeroy
Hey, I just joined the project recently and am starting with expanding this stub. Anyone have any suggestions on how to make an article really stand out?

Broadcastterp (talk) 03:15, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * It's a pretty good start, but now please pay attention to the irritating little warning flags ("Vague" and the rest) that have been added by irritating little people such as myself. (In particular, what's this about "pythagorean numbers"?) Don't remove the flags until you've fixed the problem; if you genuinely see no problem, ask in the article's talk page. Be patient! -- Hoary (talk) 00:31, 16 March 2012 (UTC)


 * This thread caught my eye in passing. I think what you are looking for is Pythagorean expectation, which has nothing at all to do with Pythagoras' theorem other than it also involves a sum of squares.  Spinning  Spark  00:55, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Columbus Commercial Dispatch
Quasi-crossposted from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mississippi, where there hasn't yet been any response.

A template on its talk page tells me that The Commercial Dispatch (newspaper) is of "low importance" to Mississippi. But its website suggests that it's a solid little newspaper. A pity, then, that the article on it is completely unsourced. Google News doesn't show any news about it. By contrast, Google Books has a dizzying number of hits, but those I was able to read were mere mentions of news stories, and not about the paper itself. I (in Tokyo) have no relation whatever to Mississippi, but perhaps somebody here will have a book about about news media in the US that will say something. -- Hoary (talk) 00:31, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Fair use image of masthead is available
A probable WP:fair use image of the masthead and front page of The Independent (Gambia) is available near the bottom of this webpage from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism website. Are there any registered editors here interested in getting it added to the article on that Gambian newspaper? 67.101.7.111 (talk) 19:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:HighBeam
HighBeam describes a limited opportunity for Wikipedia editors to have access to HighBeam Research. —Wavelength (talk) 18:07, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Notability of a a Norwegian journalist who died in Afghanistan
Here is a link to a suggestion for deleting an article about a Norwegian journalist who died in Afghanistan,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carsten_Thomassen_(journalist)#Support_for_nomination_of_deletion. --Sywoofer (talk) 12:20, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Merge comment needed - Correspondent
Should Correspondent merge to Journalist? Please comment at Talk:Correspondent. Thanks, D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  01:45, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Magazines
His, some magazines (and sometimes even academic journals) are being tagged with talk page banners from this project. I remove those for academic journals, as I don't think that those actually fall within the realm of journalism, but I'm not sure about magazines. Note that there is a WP:WikiProject Magazines (even though it is currently not very active). I don't really mind either way, but would like to know when I tag articles whether or not to include this project. Thanks. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 15:13, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Dan Savage bibliography for Deletion?
Dan Savage bibliography has been nominated for deletion. The discussion is at Articles for deletion/Dan Savage bibliography. Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 14:38, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/Dan Savage bibliography

Indonesian newspapers category
Category:Indonesian-language newspapers contains four entries, three of which are about newspapers that have not been published since the Japanese occupation or the Sukarno era. Is there any reason not to merge this category into Category:Indonesian press?

I only happened on this in the course of my work. I have no specific interest in the topic and am not able to handle the merger proposal process. --Thnidu (talk) 21:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Newspapers
I wonder if there's any advice, sage or otherwise, editors might have for those of us interested in improving articles about newspapers -- but there's a dearth of secondary sources (and when there are, it's largely anecdotal ... rarely on point).

Newspapers don't tend to write about other newspapers much (and outside of industry trend stories, TV news sites tend to write about them even less). If a newspaper writes about itself, is that reliable? What about in an op-ed or unsigned editorial? Their "about us" page? (Outside of E&P, CJR, Poynter and the like, there's not much sourceage out there -- especially when you're talking about five-figure circulation papers, to say nothing of the non-daily set.)

I'd like to improve articles in these areas. Any advice you could give me that might point me the way of success would be, by me, appreciated. Woodshed (talk) 11:15, 30 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Welcome to the project!


 * As far as Wikipedia is concerned, any time a newspaper writes about itself -- "About Us" page, editorial, news stories celebrating its centennial, advertising rate cards available in PDF form on its website, etc. -- it is considered a primary source and a self-published source. That does not mean information from these sources is banned from Wikipedia, however.


 * Remember that the WP:V standard is verifiability, not verified. If you're reasonably sure that a reliable source exists offline, go ahead and add the fact and cite the "About Us" page where you found it. (common example: the Advocate-Advance claims on its website that it was founded January 7, 1923, through merger of The Evening Advocate and the Anytown Advance. Can't find a reliable source anywhere to back this up, but I trust the self-published source and am reasonably sure that I'd find documentary proof in the 1923 microfiche archives of the Advocate-Advance). Also note that under WP:SELFSOURCE, an organization's own homepage or self-published documents are considered reliable sources as long as they are presenting noncontroversial material in a factual way.


 * Some other places to look:


 * 1. Alongside newspapers in large or midsize markets you are likely to find alternative newsweeklies, business journals and community weeklies -- sometimes even smaller dailies -- that love to point out their larger competitors' foibles, including any sort of scandal, ownership change, layoffs or decline in circulation/profitability. These are generally considered WP:RS reliable secondary sources. Often their "media watch" column is a web feature or part of their blog; such blogs, when they are part of a news organization's online presence, are generally also considered reliable secondary sources.


 * 2. There are also, in some areas (Boston, Seattle and British Columbia come to mind) robust online-only sources dedicated entirely to analysis of the local media scene. These are often run by former print journalists or journalism professors. They look like and are frequently touted as "blogs", which we tend to avoid on Wikipedia, but a close reading of WP:USERGENERATED yields this: "Self-published material may be acceptable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications". So cite away.


 * 3. For papers owned by corporations, don't forget to search for information about the parent company. If the company is publicly traded, its annual reports can be useful for merger/acquisition news. Even if not, sometimes a competitor/third-party source in a different market will write about the company's woes in general, and give the specific example of some scandal/trouble at the property you're writing about. I recently found that the best source I had for a newspaper sale in Illinois was from a completely unrelated newspaper in Ohio that happens to compete with other newspapers owned by the purchasing company.


 * 4. Here in the United States, and I suspect elsewhere in the anglosphere, it was quite common in previous generations for local historians or historical societies to publish books on their town's or county's history. As local newspapers were a huge part of the 19th-early 20th-century development of US settlements, these published books represent a treasure trove. Some of them have been scanned into Google Books.


 * 5. Another hit-or-miss source is the industry newsletters published by local press associations (good for editor/publisher changes, mergers, milestones, circulation figures, layoffs, awards, etc.). These are often little better than glorified press releases, but technically speaking, they do represent a third party with editorial oversight. I've used the Hoosier State Newspaper Association and New England Newspaper & Press Association as sources in the past.


 * I've long been of the opinion that this WikiProject needs something -- a policy? an essay? -- to address how the points you raise affect sourcing and determinations of notability for articles about newspapers. When a newspaper writes about itself, particularly in a bylined news story, yes, it is technically "self-published"; but it's also (usually) subject to the same editorial process and standards as when a newspaper writes about any local business. I'm not naive enough to think that newspapers will write many negative stories about themselves, but the positive information they do write should be treated as a reliable source. Anyway, hope this helps. ``` t b w i l l i e ` $1.25 ` 20:13, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Spinout articles of The Epoch Times
There is currently discussion at the talk page of the above article considering the possibility of spinout into various possible articles, and adding some material regarding the various editions of the publication in the article. I have a feeling that the editors of this project probably have the most experience in dealing with such issues, and I think their input in the discussion on the article talk page might be particularly useful and welcome. John Carter (talk) 16:09, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Why, given that "media bias" is rated of high importance, is "Media bias in the United States" rated of low importance?
It seems to me that media bias that has led to war is of major importance to the entire world. Rick Norwood (talk) 12:40, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Journalism importance & quality scales
The links found in the assessment template at the top of talk page articles go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Journalism/Assessment#Quality_scale and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Journalism/Assessment#Importance_scale, two nonexistent sections. The links need to be fixed but I'm not sure how. CheeseStakeholder (talk) 14:46, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

RfC on Long War Journal
Request participation here. Cla68 (talk) 05:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Editorial control
Hello, folks! I was reading this news and wanted to get informed about what is editorial control. But I searched in the Wikipedia and didn't find any article on it. The closest one is Editor-in-chief, which deals more about the job than about the concept itself. I think that we need that article, it's very relevant to journalism. Can you add that article? Thank you! --NaBUru38 (talk) 18:09, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Journalism AFD
FYI: Articles for deletion/True Dakotan newspaper True Dakotan has been nominated for deletion.--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:11, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

New draft for Fortune senior editor Nina Easton
Hi, I've just placed an edit request on the Talk page for Nina Easton's article, asking for editors to review a new draft that I've proposed. The current article is not well written, lacks information, and some information that is there lacks sources. My draft aims to address all these issues and present a more thorough summary of Ms. Easton's career. I've written the draft on behalf of and with input from Ms. Easton. Given this COI, I'd appreciate feedback from other editors and for them to move the draft live if it looks ok. The full details of the draft are in the edit request here, and the draft is in my user space here. I hope someone from this WikiProject is able to take a look. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 18:59, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Just to let editors here know, this request has been answered. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 13:24, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Sanjay Pugalia
This article is up for deletion if anyone cares to comment.4meter4 (talk) 16:39, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Freedom of speech = New WikiProject
Hi there, I'm notifying this WikiProject due to its relevance to Freedom of speech. I've recently gone ahead and created WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech. If you're interested, here are some easy things you can do: Thank you for your interest in Freedom of speech, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:30, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech
 * 1) List yourself as a participant in the WikiProject, by adding your username here: WikiProject_Freedom_of_speech.
 * 2) Add userbox User Freedom of speech to your userpage, which lists you as a member of the WikiProject.
 * 3) Tag relevant talk pages of articles and other relevant pages using WikiProject Freedom of speech.
 * 4) Join in discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Freedom of speech.
 * 5) Notify others you think might be interested in Freedom of speech to join the WikiProject.

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 * I've subscribed this project to this service. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:49, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Articles on websites
Hello, folks! Articles on news / entertainment media typically describe in detail the "original media" (television channel, radio station, newspaper, magazine), but usually include very little about their websites. In the case of United States media, there are individual articles like nbcnews.com, espn.com and foxsports.com, articles like Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times include decent sections, but there is little or nothing about the websites of ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, Bloomberg, USA Today and The Washington Post. Can you expand those articles and those about news websites from other countries? Thank you! --NaBUru38 (talk) 17:06, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The edit button is only a click away :D--Coin945 (talk) 03:38, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Article alerts
Added this project to Article alerts, at WikiProject Journalism/Article alerts, should be some data there soon after the bot stops by to update it. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:49, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of John F. Harris


The article John F. Harris has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Subject of article is a Low Profile Individual and should be deleted per WP:BLP.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Cresix (talk) 23:38, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Manchester Daily Express - UK
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Manchester Express. -- Trevj (talk) 16:10, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

New draft for Kate White
Hi, I've posted here before asking for help with Nina Easton's article and I was wondering if any editors here would be interested in reviewing a new draft article for former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Kate White. The current article is a stub, with very little detail about her career both in the magazine industry and as a writer. Working on behalf of Ms. White, I have written a new draft, expanding the article using reliable sources.

Due to my COI, I would appreciate if editors here could provide any constructive feedback and, if the draft is ready, replace the current live article with this new version. I've also left a more detailed request on the article's Talk page and ask that you reply there if you're able to help. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 23:48, 13 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg This is done! User:Khazar2 replied on the article's talk page and they have reviewed and moved the draft. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 14:13, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Hugh Aynesworth
I'm wondering if I might get a reassessment of Hugh Aynesworth. Any comments or suggestions for improving the article would be most welcome. Thanks! Location (talk) 06:35, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Post-Journalism
I'm not a member of the project, but want to relate an incident. I was having an email exchange with a former journalist-now-blogger, accusing him of using sensationalist meta-stories (e.g. why someone was canned at a particular news organization) to exploit his readers. He responded, "It's post-journalism." I actually think I've heard this neologism before, but it would be nice to have an article about it. (Calling Jeff Jarvis?) Thanks. -- kosboot (talk) 14:40, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

TAFI
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 * Today's Article For Improvement star.svg
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Help updating Brian Lamb's article
Hi, I'm looking for help with a request I posted last week on Brian Lamb's Talk page to update his article to show that he retired as CEO of C-SPAN last year. Although the changes I've requested are all simple and factual, I'd prefer not to make them myself because I am working with the C-SPAN communications team on this and want to avoid any potential COI issues. I thought that perhaps editors active here might be interested in pages related to C-SPAN, including Brian Lamb's article. I'll keep an eye on this talk page if there are any questions. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 16:08, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Working on it
Hi, I added in a sentence to reflect it was announced last year, but need to find sources saying it actually happened. Will take a closer look later tonight, just a quick edit during my coffee break here. I just realized, I need to go through the entire article also to change the wording of his accomplishments to past tense instead of present perfect - EG "has been" to "was." ProliferatingJade (talk) 17:53, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi again, ProliferatingJade - I'm sorry I just realized you had responded to me here, though I'm assuming by now you've seen the comment I left on your Talk page. I also found sources announcing Brian Lamb's intent to step down, but not any mentioning that the leadership transition was completed, although that was due to take place in April last year. Given the coverage of the retirement by the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Purdue University paper (his alma mater) and the inclusion of this event on the Official C-SPAN timeline, would you feel comfortable making the changes I requested? I'm particularly concerned about correcting the error in the introduction. As this C-SPAN page shows, Brian Lamb is still Executive Chairman at C-SPAN and I'd like the introduction to reflect this. Thanks for your help, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 21:59, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

World Press Freedom Day
There is a discussion that we are currently having at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Freedom of speech about how Wikipedia might commemorate World Press Freedom Day, which falls on 3 May every year. If you have any ideas, please help. Thank you, Crtew (talk) 19:53, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. AIR corn (talk) 10:26, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Fuck (film), freedom of speech-related quality improvement project
As part of a quality improvement project on a topic related to freedom of speech, I've greatly expanded upon and improved the quality of the article at page, Fuck (film). Any further suggestions for additional secondary sources and referencing would be appreciated, at the article's talk page. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:19, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Fuck (film)

List Peer Review for Dan Savage bibliography
Please see discussion, at Peer review/Dan Savage bibliography/archive2. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:10, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Dan Savage bibliography
 * List Peer Review for Dan Savage bibliography

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate - FA nomination
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate is currently a candidate for consideration of Featured Article quality status. The discussion page is at Featured article candidates/Freedom for the Thought That We Hate/archive1.
 * Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:39, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

ErnestBethel.JPG
file:ErnestBethel.JPG has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 03:56, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Requesting peer reviews of C-SPAN
Greetings, WikiProject Journalism members. A few weeks back I initiated a peer review for the C-SPAN article—I'm interested in taking it to FA soon—and I'm looking for editors who might be interested in helping with this process. So far it has been reviewed by one editor who has focused on the references and their formatting, but I am interested in a review from a content standpoint as well. If anyone here is interested in helping with this, please take a look at the peer review request here: Peer_review/C-SPAN/archive1

Worth noting: I am actually a consultant to C-SPAN, so I will not be editing this article directly. Instead, once I have all the review comments I think are likely to come, it's my plan to make a copy of the current article in my user space and implement any suggested changes there. If anyone has questions, please find me on my Talk page. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 19:00, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Avoiding the scandal
It has been claimed (I believe in an article in Salon) that "Wikipedia has more articles on female pornographic film actors than on women poets". This is atually patently false, there are probably at least twice as many articles on women poets as on female pornographic film actors. However up until recently (as in last Saturday) Category:American female pornographic film actors was bigger than Category:American women poets, and it may still be true that Category:Female pornographic film actors has more articles directly and in all its sub-cats than Category:Women poets. It is definately true that Category:American women journalists is smaller than Category:American female pornographic film actors. This may be depressing to some, and be a reason to attack wikipedia on the part of others. However, the situation is not really that dire. It is fairly easy to remedy. There are 4 ways to help. I am going to try to fix it, and am hoping amybe some others could help. There are 3 ways. 1-the most straightfoward way is to create more aritcles on women who were journalists, making sure to include Category:Women journalists or one of its sub-cats with the new article (the people should also be put in a gender neutral subcat of Category:Journalists. I would love to see this done. 2-people could find articles that are on women who were involved in journalism that do not mention this fact, add the information and categorize the women into Category:Women journalists or some sub-cat thereof.  3-Find women who the article mentions they were journalists, but they have not been categorized as such yet and so categorize them. 4-this is the easiest, find women who are in some journalist category, but have not been put in Category:Women journalists or any of its sub-cats.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:26, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Eveningtimes.jpg
File:Eveningtimes.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 05:58, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Portrait of Jessie Tarbox Beals standing outside with her camera, ca. 1927-1929 PC60-9-14.jpg
image:Portrait of Jessie Tarbox Beals standing outside with her camera, ca. 1927-1929 PC60-9-14.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 07:44, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Fuck peer review

 * 1) Fuck (film)
 * 2) Peer review/Fuck (film)/archive1

I've listed the article Fuck (film) for peer review.

Help with furthering along the quality improvement process would be appreciated, at Peer review/Fuck (film)/archive1.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:36, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Image of newspaper
Hello, I created the article Colorado Springs Business Journal and found that there are images of newspapers and journals on commons with the tag. I tried to upload the image (from here), with that tag. On preview, I saw that the image would be a candidate for immediate deletion because it was a disallowed fair use image.

How might I go about getting an image that would be able to be used without a copyright concern?

Thanks!-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 17:44, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know the answer to this question, but I bet User:Crisco 1492 would. -- Khazar2 (talk) 17:48, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks!-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 18:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Help reviewing revised draft of C-SPAN
Hello, anyone watching this page! I'm looking for an editor (or editors) to review an updated draft I have prepared for the C-SPAN article. Back in late April, I requested a peer review of the article and received feedback from two separate editors. I incorporated a number of their suggestions, and what I did not include I subsequently explained at Talk:C-SPAN. Unfortunately, neither editor has offered any follow-up comment.

The reason why I have not been bold and made these changes: I am not just a fan of C-SPAN, but in fact I am a consultant to the network. Because I have this financial COI, I am avoiding all direct edits to the live article, and my revised version remains in my userspace, here: User:WWB_Too/C-SPAN_(2013_revision)

Since this article falls under the purview of this WikiProject, this is one place I'll be asking. If an editor here is able to review the the changes—and perhaps move them live—I would really appreciate it. Worth noting: my explanation is meant to be thorough, so it will take a bit of time. However, I've tried to make it as easy (and fun?) to follow the changes as possible. Hope to see you at Talk:C-SPAN, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 22:01, 2 July 2013 (UTC)


 * This is ✅. WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 13:29, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Guardian US
I've just moved and updated Guardian America to Guardian US. It could do with some more content and independent refs. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:17, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/merinews
Dear journalists: This article hasn't  been worked on for a long time and will soon be deleted. Can someone who knows check it to see if it should be saved, and if so, is there someone willing to fix it up? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 21:37, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Kit Carson and john Fremont in the deaths of the De Haro Family
I am one of the great great grandsons of Franciso de Haro, the first Alcalde of San Franciso. The Berryesa family was having a party in now Sausalito, when John Fremont, Kit Carson and a man know as three fingered Jack ambushed them as they were getting out of their boat. You neglect to say that they not only killed the twins but also their father, leaving only his wife and daughter to fend for themselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.170.106.8 (talk) 01:24, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Education Program (journalism courses)
I teach 2 of the following university courses through Wikipedia Education Program. If you are interested in becoming part of W.E.P. and you want to be involved with journalism-related courses, please consider being an online or a campus ambassador. You can assist students with Wikipedia-related issues and advance the project at the same time! If you're interested, please contact me via my Talk, and fill out an application at Education_program/Ambassadors. Thank you, Crtew (talk) 19:10, 19 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Journalism: I'm currently in search of two ambassadors who would like to sign on to my semester-long journalism safety/freedom of speech project (COMM 192: Intro to Mass Communication). For this project, students write about notable journalists (sometimes events involving journalists) who have been killed while reporting or killed, imprisoned or sent into exile because of their reporting. In addition to bio writing, students fill in infoboxes or incident boxes for attacks and create maps. Ambassadors will typically field Wikipedia-related questions from students who are mostly in their freshman or sophomore year and offer them help or tips on policy, technical and cultural/behavioral issues. We do work with Wikipedians who are active in this area and on the lists of killed journalists (e.g. List of journalists killed in Mexico) Crtew (talk) 19:10, 19 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Photography: In addition, ambassadors may want to also consider signing up for my current fall semester Digital Photography course, which is more limited in length (a matter of two or three weeks on the assignment). Students will be illustrating several Wikipedia articles each. They will be finding articles that are in need of illustration or may use current images request categories to get ideas. Some students may want to brainstorm with an experienced Wikipedian. After the photo shoot and photo editing, these students may need help with questions about uploading, filling in copyright forms (easy because they will be the creators), or placing images with captions in an article. This assignment requires knowledge of Wikimedia Commons as well as Wikipedia. The majority of these students should have had COMM 192 (see above) and will have some prior experience with Wikipedia. Crtew (talk) 19:10, 19 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Online journalism: If this subject matter appeals to you (see my last two entries above), I'm looking for assistance in my project with Wikinews English in the spring semester (starts in January - ends in late April). Advanced students combine skills from the previous two courses with original reporting and write/create multimedia stories about current news events for a global audience. Last time, the course generated content that attracted over well over 100,000 views by the end of the semester. Knowledge of Wikipedia policy, technical knowledge, skills and culture, as well as those sisters Wikimedia Commons and Wikinews, is required. Wikinews has an entirely different culture and behavioral expectations in comparison with other sister projects. If you're interested in this project, please leave me a message at my talk page!Crtew (talk) 19:10, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Missing topics page
I have updated Missing topics about Media and Journalism - Skysmith (talk) 10:54, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

RobFordCrackHouse.jpg
image:RobFordCrackHouse.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:55, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Requesting FA review for C-SPAN
Hello again, WikiProject Journalism. As I mentioned in a message back in May I have been working towards bring the C-SPAN article up to FA status. After several months of improvements to the page I have now submitted the article at WP:FAC and am looking for editors who might be interested in reviewing this article and contributing to the discussion.

A note for anyone who has not seen my previous message, I am a consultant to C-SPAN so my work on this article has been done in accordance with Jimbo's advisory to COI editors, as explained in his Paid Advocacy FAQ. This means I have avoided, and will continue to avoid, direct edits to the article. For this reason I hope all editors will feel welcome to make changes directly to the article.

If you are interested, the FAC discussion can be found here. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:06, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Bradley Manning/October 2013 move request‎
Greetings! In accordance with the conditions set forth in the previous discussion of the Bradley Manning/Chelsea Manning title dispute, a new move request has been filed and is now underway. bd2412 T 20:52, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at Template_talk:WikiLeaks
You are invited to join the discussion at Template_talk:WikiLeaks. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 00:55, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Fuck featured article candidate discussion
Fuck (film) is a candidate for Featured Article quality &mdash; comments would be appreciated at Featured article candidates/Fuck (film)/archive1.
 * Fuck (film)

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:06, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Fake News redirects to News Satire.
Are there any Wikipedia articles about Journalism as a tool for public opinion management? That's what I think of when I hear the term "fake news." I have a sense that people have deliberately taken the term to make it unavailable for that important purpose. 92.78.150.67 (talk) 15:01, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Freedom of speech - for peer review
I've placed Portal:Freedom of speech up for portal peer review. Comments would be welcome, at Portal peer review/Freedom of speech/archive1. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 23:41, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Portal:Freedom of speech

Split article on Gary Webb and Dark Alliance?
I have noticed a lot of analysis of the journalism series Dark Alliance, as in it is a subject in and of itself. Do you think I should split the article off? WhisperToMe (talk) 22:25, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Young India and Harijan, Mohandas Gandhi's newspapers
The page Young India needs much expansion and attention, as does Harijan. As Mohandas Gandhi's weekly papers and his main way to communicate with his country for many years, these are very important topics for both Gandhi's and India's legacy. If there is a call for the team to assemble, I blow the horn and beat the drum. I added both pages to the Gandhi template, and the template to the pages. Thanks. And I don't know how to move this post off of the previous item, where it has ended up. Randy Kryn 12:04 18-2-'13 (UTC)


 * }

Plus JEDEN DEŇ
I've created a new article on the newspaper Plus JEDEN DEŇ, please feel free to post to the talk page if you know of areas for additional secondary sources, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:37, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Freedom of speech portal for Featured candidate
I've nominated Portal:Freedom of speech for Featured quality consideration, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Freedom of speech. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:49, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Notice of posting to TFA nominations
I've added Fuck (film) to TFA nominations, discussion is at Today's_featured_article/requests. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:34, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Disagreement between History of British Newspapers and article 1780
There is a discrepancy in what the first British Sunday newspaper was, and I don't know which is right. On the article "History of British newspapers", it says: "The Observer, first published on 4 December 1791, was the world's first Sunday newspaper." Because this is under British newspapers, it must also be Britain's first Sunday paper. Under the article "1780," it says: "March 26 – The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, begins publication."

Obviously the two are not in agreement and one is wrong. I don't know how to fix it even if I did know the right answer.--76.123.43.150 (talk) 22:01, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Where are the articles?
I am looking for the standard witki-table of article assessments for this project but cannot find it. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, XOttawahitech (talk) 04:18, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Please see WikiProject Journalism/Assessment. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:49, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Free Expression Policy Project
I've created an article on the organization Free Expression Policy Project. Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be most appreciated, at Talk:Free Expression Policy Project. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:26, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Dan Savage bibliography for FLC
I've gone ahead and nominated Dan Savage bibliography for WP:FLC consideration, the discussion page is at Featured list candidates/Dan Savage bibliography/archive1. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 12:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Dan Savage bibliography
 * 2) Featured list candidates/Dan Savage bibliography/archive1

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/LA Progressive
Dear journalists: This old abandoned Afc submission will soon be  deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable publication, and should the article be saved? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 00:48, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Main Page appearance: Fuck (film)
This is a note to let the main editors of Fuck (film) know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on March 1, 2014. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask. You can view the TFA blurb at Today's featured article/March 1, 2014. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:

Fuck is a 2005 American documentary film by director Steve Anderson, which argues that the word is key to discussions about freedom of speech and censorship. The film provides perspectives from art, linguistics, society and comedy. Linguist Reinhold Albert Aman, journalism analyst David Shaw, language professor Geoffrey Nunberg and Oxford English Dictionary editor Jesse Sheidlower explain the term's history and evolution. The film features the last interview of author Hunter S. Thompson before his suicide. It was first shown at the AFI Film Festival at ArcLight Hollywood; it has subsequently been released on DVD in America and in the UK and used as a resource on several university courses. The New York Times critic A. O. Scott called the film a battle between advocates of morality and supporters of freedom of expression, while other reviews criticized its length and repetitiveness. Law professor Christopher M. Fairman commented on the film's importance in his 2009 book on the same subject. The American Film Institute said, "Ultimately, [it] is a movie about free speech ... Freedom of expression must extend to words that offend." UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Above was posted to my user talk page, posting here as well. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 23:19, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Not in Front of the Children
I've recently gone ahead and created an article about the book, Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.
 * Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth

Help with suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:27, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

The Houstonian
I've recently gone ahead and created an article about the newspaper, The Houstonian (newspaper).
 * The Houstonian (newspaper)

Help with suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:The Houstonian (newspaper).

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:31, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

New York Times citation generator and userbox your members may like
-- Djembayz (talk) 16:59, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

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Vatican watcher
I've created a new article titled Vatican watcher. It's severely stubby. It lacks references and no other articles link to it. A lot more could be added. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:34, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Requested move
Not of any great importance, but won't show up on alerts: Talk:Claude Julien (journalist). In ictu oculi (talk) 08:56, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Take someone under your wing?
Hey all! I would like to request that an experienced editor communicate with User:Reedabplanalpcowan, who has edited on the article Reed Cowan. He has openly stated that he is Cowan himself, so I thought it'd be good if there was an intermediary to help allay any concerns of COI as well as to help go over Wikipedia policies in general. His edits do appear to have been made in WP:GOODFAITH, so I'm not concerned about there being any self-promotion or any of the typical concerns we'd have with a COI editor. I'd like to avoid the article getting tagged with anything, if possible. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   11:24, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Warren Phillips
Dear journalism experts: The above old abandoned Afc submission is about a notable journalist. It was submitted without any references, but I have been adding some. I think it still needs more, so if anyone would like to help improve this, please do. The section about the growth of the WSJ may be too promotional. I'd like to move it to mainspace soon, unless there is a problem that I don't foresee; please comment. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 03:17, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Russian Propoganda
Recent events brought to my attention that on Wikipedia Propaganda in Russia died with the Soviet Union. Which is highly suspect to me considering the national nature of Russian media and high levels of censorship and limited freedom of the press there.

I have added a new section for Propaganda, its very raw and lot more could be added/expanded there. --PLNR (talk) 23:48, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Andy Gray (journalist)
Deare journalists: Here's another old abandoned Afc submission about a journalist. Is this a notable person, and should the article be kept? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 04:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Image use policy
Please see Village pump (policy)/Archive 112 Alanscottwalker (talk) 00:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Created new article = Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars

 * Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars

I've created a new article on the book, Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars.

Help with researching additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

New article = Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence

 * Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence

I've created a new article on the book, Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence.

Help with researching additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:17, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to User Study
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 05:12, 22 March 2014 (UTC).

What is the scope of this project?
I see the following in this project's to-do list: "Place the project banner on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of this project." but I cannot find a definition of the scope. If anyone replies I would greatly appreciate being notified. Thanks in advance, XOttawahitech (talk) 12:35, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

The Courtland Journal
This newspaper is at AFD, so this may be of interest to some editors here. --Randykitty (talk) 13:34, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
How much space should be discussing his climate change views? See Talk:Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:32, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of List of works about Julian Assange for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of works about Julian Assange is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/List of works about Julian Assange until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. XOttawahitech (talk) 12:07, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Journalism At Wikimania 2014
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project? We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply. For more information, click the link below. Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 14:09, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Requesting images for use on Broadcast journalism
Please see Talk:Broadcast journalism and the related discussion above it.

Bottom line: There is a dispute about which image(s) are best to use with this article.

I'm posting here hoping there hoping there are other images that can replace the existing ones without the controversy that the existing image and a recently-removed image have. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  19:41, 22 May 2014 (UTC)


 * davidwrCan we keep both? As old image lacks in recent Broadcast journalism instruments. JAIBHIM5 (talk) 08:21, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The goal is for editors who have not interacted heavily with either you or me (i.e. editors with no "stake" in the outcome) to find images to replace the ones that are "contentious" - that is, images which either you or I want to get rid of and which the other one of us wants to keep.  In other words, both of us will "lose" so that the readers of the article in question can "win."  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  00:26, 29 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Both are relevant. lets keep both and close this discussion JAIBHIM5 (talk) 12:21, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussion continued at Talk:Broadcast journalism. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  02:10, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles related to LGBT journalists may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 19:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Journalism At Wikimania 2014(updated version)
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 11:18, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bill Dorich


The article Bill Dorich has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Biography that does not meet the notability guideline.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 18:11, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Column sorting problem in List of newspapers in Canada by circulation
The columns that should be numeric sort alphabetically rather than numerically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Canada_by_circulationTetsuo (talk) 14:03, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Requesting update of St. Louis Beacon and KWMU
Howdy.

Per Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy, I'd like to request someone update pages for the St. Louis Beacon and KWMU, which merged in December 2013 (I work for the merged organization, so I'm not sure I should make the edits myself). Additionally, the Beacon's logo is out of date; the one current as of the merger can be found on its homepage.

Here are some sources:


 * Current.org
 * Gateway Journalism Review
 * NPR
 * Poynter.org
 * St. Louis Public Radio

Thanks, --Brentajones (talk) 17:43, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Wonder if anyone can help me track down a newspaper
I'm trying to track down a newspaper known as the Courier operating in London during the 18th and 19th century. I'm working on the article Archer family and the family had connections to this paper, so I'm trying to determine what I can about it. Based on "A genealogical and heraldic history of the colonial gentry (in two volumes)" by Sir Bernard Burke at least one of the owners as a Dr. Frost, who married Mary Archer. A long shot anyone has ever heard of it, but I thought I'd ask. Googling brings up a whole list of possibilities and I have no clue on which it might be. I expect it shut down many years ago. JTdale  Talk 12:29, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Emily Sweeney
Dear journalism experts: Is this old Afc submission about a notable journalist? Should the page be kept and improved instead of being deleted as a stale draft? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 22:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Vogue editions merger proposal
I am proposing that the articles on the various Vogue editions be merged. If you are interested in opining, please see the proposal and discussion here. Holdek (talk) 23:02, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Proposed Descendent Project
I would like to start up a new sub-project on the provincial / regional press. There are a large number of important non-metropolitan newspapers (especially in from the nineteenth century) that have no presence on Wikipedia. There are growing number of books and scholarly articles on this topic to help. Anyone else interested in such a project?Mhbeals (talk) 13:42, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Should this BLP be deleted?
The article Sarah Gardner, about a TV person, may not meet notability requirements. It would appear to need updating. In addition it is very poorly sourced: two of the sources are articles from the 90s, not online, and the other two are dead links.

I've never proposed a deletion. If you people agree with me (above), I hope one of you will do so. Thanks, Hordaland (talk) 02:24, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Michel Marizco
Dear Journalism experts: This old AfC submission needs improvement, but is it about a notable journalist? There appear to be a lot of reference (although I removed some Youtube videos). &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 18:37, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

RSN invitation
Please consider contributing to this RSN discussion (permanent link here), which concerns an alleged journalistic conflict of interest. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 19:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Vandalism on Kodiak Daily Mirror
Five Six times now, I've reverted an IP who has changed the circulation figure for the Kodiak Daily Mirror from 1,900 to either 11,900 or 19,000. As the 2010 Census reported the population of the surrounding Kodiak Island Borough as 13,592, common sense tells me that the latter figures are completely bogus. It's bad enough that virtually every article on my watchlist covering a media outlet serves as little more than an advertisement for the outlet's current owner, and this article is no exception. Trying to puff it up in such a manner rather than substantially improving it isn't making that any better. I went looking for websites covering circulation figures and only found paywalled sites. Any hints on better sources for that? RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 02:03, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

"Outro"
The usage of Outro is under discussion, see talk:outro -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 07:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Notification of a TFA nomination
In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:10, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

WhoWhatWhy
Please consider contributing to WP:Articles for deletion/WhoWhatWhy, in which our article about news website WhoWhatWhy is being considered for deletion. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 04:09, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

New York Evening Express
I recently created this article on a significant 19th century New York newspaper. If anyone is aware of significant New York newspapers still missing from the project, let me know and I'll try a hand at it.--Milowent • hasspoken 13:24, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

WP:VG comments subpages cleanup
Hi, there is currently a discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games regarding whether it would be acceptable to permanently shift all comments subpages associated with WP:VG articles into talk. This shift would follow the recommended approach given at WP:DCS. The WikiProject Journalism articles that would be affected by this action are these: If you have objections related specifically to WikiProject Journalism's use of these subpages, please make this clear at the discussion so that other unrelated talk pages can be cleaned up where appropriate. Thank you. -Thibbs (talk) 15:56, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Matt Casamassina

Good post
Мне понравилось. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.69.151.211 (talk) 19:31, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Good Article promoted in 2013, nominated for deletion

 * 1) Critical response to She Has a Name
 * 2) Articles for deletion/Critical response to She Has a Name

WP:GA article Critical response to She Has a Name, promoted in 2013, nominated for deletion, discussion page is at: Articles for deletion/Critical response to She Has a Name. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:47, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Could someone from the project take a look and say hello to a new editor?
Would someone from the project consider extending a welcome to User:Gillian.gillian? They've been producing a number of stubs on old American newspapers here I've been seeing at AfC, and might appreciate a targeted welcome. --j⚛e deckertalk 15:35, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Deletion discussion for newspaper The Globe
Ongoing deletion discussion to decided whether or not to delete article on newspaper The Globe (student newspaper), with discussion page at Articles for deletion/The Globe (student newspaper).
 * 1) The Globe (student newspaper)
 * 2) Articles for deletion/The Globe (student newspaper)

Further research would be most appreciated, and/or suggestions for additional secondary sources, at Talk:The Globe (student newspaper).

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:30, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Hustler Magazine case, Requested move
Please see Talk:Hustler_Magazine,_Inc._v._Falwell.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 12:39, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Journalisted template
I've made the template Journalisted, for links to Journalisted profiles. See, for example its use on Tim Whewell. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:52, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

interesting case
an interesting case, where a lawyer came to court without his clients file. Dr. nicholas bought a land with a mentle disturd woman called asha byaruhanga,the land belonged to the family of maria in mbarara, kakoba cell, kakoba ward. this land was sold by the mental disturd without the concent of the family. lcs refused to aknowdge the buying of the land and stopped nicholas to buy the land and he refused. confised asha that he is going to treat, in bwizibwera instead took her to a lawyer for land buying agreemet. which was done. NICHOLAS put a small structure in the area which was pulled down by mbarara minicipality, but Nicholas accused the old sister asha that she is the one who pulled down the small structure, mbarara municipality gave copies of the letter irastrating that they are the one who pulled the small structure because it was illigal structure and in a dispurted land. in court municipality to witness and lcs were also in court, but the ruling was that bahati is responsible of pulling down the structure and sentensed to three years. she appealed, to be released on bail, the day of attending the court for the bail, the never came with the case file to defend his client.no body knew his intentions, suprised all peopple who were in court even the majestrate was suprised a lawyer coming to court with no file. this what we are meeting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.138.87.43 (talk) 17:52, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Tools for writing essays
Prompt service on writing essays — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.150.142.62 (talk) 00:21, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Help on Hill+Knowlton
Hi there, I'm looking for editors who might be interested to help improve the Hill+Knowlton article, which is a public relations company with focuses including journalism and media. Currently, the article's content suffers from POV issues, as it is focused almost entirely on a handful of more controversial clients and work, while there is little to no information about the company's history and overall operations. Although H+K is one of the largest and longest-established PR companies in the United States, the article's History is just five sentences long, and the only other section in the article, the Controversies section, dominates its content.

On the Talk page, I've proposed a new draft for the article that relies on secondary sources and aims to add more information about how the company operates, and how it has developed over time. I should note: I am working as a consultant to H+K and prepared the draft with the company's input, so I'm not going to make any edits to the article myself. Instead, I'm hoping to find editors who would be interested to review the draft and move the content into the live article if they feel it is appropriate. If you'd be able to help, please take a look at the full request on the Talk page. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions at all. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 14:33, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Rhiannon, I am willing to take a look. A quick review of the current article shows it could use help.  If you're an excellent PR firm, you're likely to have some "bad" clients, that's why you get hired.  I have experience writing about the history of media companies (e.g., Brush-Moore Newspapers) and will see what I can do.--Milowent • hasspoken  17:24, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Milowent! Looking forward to seeing your thoughts on the draft. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 14:51, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

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Freeman Hunt
I can't seem to find his biography. Is there are particular reason why he doesn't have a page? He seems fairly notable. 172.56.0.105 (talk) 13:51, 21 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Hunt does indeed seem to be notable. As often happens on Wikipedia, articles do not appear until someone with an interest in the subject matter creates the article. Given the number of online references to him, I think Hunt would be a good candidate. Perhaps if you started the article others might contribute to it to expand it.DanDavidCook (talk) 21:52, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I second what said. (I found one promising source here.) Are you by chance the author of the draft you linked? If so, it looks like you're in a very good position to start a short article. It needn't be very long or in-depth -- for instance, if you wrote one or two paragraphs with a few good citations, with an overview of his career, you might find that others contribute to it over time. Post back here if you need any pointers on getting it started, I'd be glad to lend a hand. -Pete (talk) 00:50, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Roldo Bartimole
I am preparing to create an article about Roldo Bartimole, a Cleveland, OH, journalist who founded Point of View, a newsletter dedicated to Cleveland politics. His primary focus was on the politics of race in Cleveland. I would invite others who may know something about his life and career to participate. He lives in Cleveland and will celebrate his 82nd birthday in June. And he's still covering and commenting on Cleveland politics!DanDavidCook (talk) 21:57, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Glad to see you bring it up here, -- I've been curious to see what you come up with. I just looked around for info about him, and found a nice bibliography here. Ralph Nader wrote up his work? Cool! -Pete (talk) 00:54, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Pete! Roldo has influenced lots of journalists, myself included.DanDavidCook (talk) 03:24, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

George Washington Dixon FAR
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Georg Forster FAR
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Cheryl Reed
I am new to Wikipedia and undergoing training. I've started with some basic changes, adding citations to a bio page that was created about me by someone else some time ago. I knew where those citations existed. I've also updated some basic chronology on the Chicago Sun-Times page where I used to work. I will be graduating to bigger pages that don't involve me, but any suggestions are welcomed. ThanksWriterprofessor (talk) 19:31, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

SouthtownStar listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for SouthtownStar to be moved to Daily Southtown. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:49, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

List of the oldest newspapers listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for List of the oldest newspapers to be moved to Lists of early newspapers by region. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:04, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Free Speech Flag for Featured Picture
I've nominated the Free Speech Flag for Featured Picture.

Discussion is at Featured picture candidates/Free Speech Flag.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:24, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of NewsBank for deletion
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Does anyone?
Feel like guiding this Draft:C. P. Trussell through acceptance? Notable topic, no independent references. Let me know, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  00:48, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

New wikiproject proposal: Information Visualisation
I'm proposing a new Wikiproject focussed on information visualisation. Since it has a some relation to this project, I'm adding a notification here. If you're interested, come and help brainstorm over here --> WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Information_Visualisation --naught101 (talk) 02:29, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of The Signpost (Wikipedia) for deletion
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Not in Front of the Children - at Peer Review
I've requested Peer Review for Not in Front of the Children.

Feedback would be appreciated, at Peer review/Not in Front of the Children/archive1.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 06:03, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Category:Reporters covering gender discrimination
Category:Reporters covering gender discrimination, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:30, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

notice of proposal to merge "The Sunday Telegraph" into "The Daily Telegraph"
There's a proposal to merge The Sunday Telegraph into The Daily Telegraph at Talk:The Daily Telegraph which may be of interest. Please consider participating there. -- do ncr  am  17:46, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Medical journalism
There is a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) about the use of the "Popular press" or news media.

Identifying_reliable_sources_%28medicine%29 currently starts with the statement, "The popular press is generally not a reliable source for scientific and medical information in articles."

There is quite a bit of academic research on the coverage of medicine by the mass media, some of which we have cited in Talk.

My reading of the research (and my personal experience as a medical journalist) is that the quality of reporting varies greatly, with the best reporting, for example Science magazine, highly reliable (sometimes more reliable than the peer-reviewed literature), while the worst reporting, for example diet advice in many of the womens' magazines, is not reliable. I usually use the criteria of HealthNewsReviews.

For example: Analysis of health stories in daily newspapers in the UK. "CONCLUSIONS: There are significant differences in the quality of reporting within and between major daily UK newspapers, with anonymous articles being the poorest quality, and widespread reliance on press releases from the major UK scientific journals."

I think WP:MEDRS should reflect that academic research.

Are there people here who understand medical journalism and can contribute to the discussion there?

Are there people here who understand Wikipedia procedures better than me who can help me figure out how to deal with this issue? --Nbauman (talk) 16:55, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Reporting on US federal politics may be compromised by paywalls
See this The Atlantic report: WhisperToMe (talk) 22:48, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Heltman, John. "Why the Public Can't Read the Press." The Atlantic. November 29, 2015.
 * Yeah, I used to write for those newsletters at McGraw-Hill -- in the 1970s and 1980s. They had newsletters like Electrical Wholesaling, Nucleonics Week, Biotechnology Newswatch, Inside Ferc, and others. They would charge $500-700 a year, and provide top corporate executives, government officials, and anybody else with a great need to know a concise 8- or 10-page executive briefing every week or fortnight. The beat reporters at the Wall Street Journal, New Scientist and other serious publications used to subscribe and use our (attributed) stories when they were significant, so anything major would filter down into the major media. But it is an interesting journalism niche that I didn't know about until I worked at McGraw-Hill. --Nbauman (talk) 01:16, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject English Language
It's rather shocking that this project is missing, though its absence explains why we have so few articles about our language (most of the linguistic material on English is buried as sections, when we're lucky, in general linguistics articles), and why so much of what we do have is riddled with Victorian prescriptivist PoV-pushing and original research. Properly sourced, neutral, linguistically descriptive, detailed, encyclopedic coverage of the language is one of en.wp's most obvious topical gaps. The scope is general, including everything from the Great English Vowel Shift to Quotation marks in English to English as a global language, and various missing articles like major styles of English writing.

I've drafted the wikiproject outline at User:SMcCandlish/WikiProject English Language, including some "Goals" and "Scope" points. Please "pre-sign" as a participant so that it already has a number of supporters (7+ would be nice) when I take it to WikiProject Council/Proposals in the next day or so. I've not yet created a to-do list for it or other resources (mainly so I don't have to move them later after the proposal goes through).

As far as I can determine, this project is missing because several times in the past, various camps of prescriptivists have tried to create something called "WikiProject English" to PoV-push their version of "correct" English on Wikipedia, and had it deleted at WP:MFD. This proposal would be the diametric opposite of such WP:FRINGE / WP:SOAPBOX campaigning.

It will not focus on journalism in particular, but the language as such. Nevertheless, I figure many people in this project will be interested in the new one. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  23:52, 2 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Seems like a worthwhile effort, . Thanks for the notice, and for the mini wiki history lesson. I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to participate meaningfully, but I appreciate hearing about it. Good luck! -Pete (talk) 02:50, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Looking for more eyes at Decline of newspapers
I'm a sporadic editor who cannot give this situation the attention it deserves. I would appreciate if someone could take a glance at Decline of newspapers and either chastise me for daring to edit anonymously or reassure me that I'm not completely off my rocker in my opinion that the article has tone issues (reading a bit more like a news feature than an encyclopedia article) and that the top image (diff) was superfluous (simply an image for the sake of an image if ever there was one, rather than a graph or a chart that might truly better depict the subject of that particular article) and captioned poorly. 173.79.20.33 (talk) 14:23, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Requested article: 1903 Tillman trial (politician who killed a journalist)
(I couldn't figure out how to add this to the requested articles template). This would be an interesting project for editors with enough time and resources: the 1903 Tillman trial / Killing of Narciso G. Gonzales: the "trial of the century" of South Carolina Lieutenant Governor James H. Tillman, who killed journalist Narciso Gener Gonzales. There is at least one modern book that discusses it in depth, a couple websites for general info, ,, and contemporary historic newspapers (e.g. Library of Congress). Cheers! --Animalparty! (talk) 23:45, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
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Saket Suman
I do not usually edit articles on journalists, so am a bit unsure about what to do with this article and the connected Beyond Books. It all looks pretty spammy to me, but i4d appreciate IT if one or more editors more familiar with this kind of stuff could have a look at these articles. Thanks! --Randykitty (talk) 16:23, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Beacon Reader
Requesting someone to take off the speedy deletion tag for Beacon Reader. I've barely started it. For the record, I have no connection to the organisation at all. Travelmite (talk) 15:01, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Searching sources for news sites
Does anyone have any tips on how to do this? I tried template:find sources but the barrier I'm running into is that when you search 'news' on a news site, most of the articles you find are from the news site itself. Is there a way to exclude a web site from the results so that you only see if the site is mentioned on other sites? Ranze (talk) 06:49, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * On google you can exclude specific websites with a minus sign. For example, if you wanted to find other sources covering The New York Times without the NYT website actually showing up in the search, you can use these search terms: . Is that what you mean? —PermStrump  ( talk )  07:48, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Rachel Bridge
The article on Rachel Bridge has been tagged for notability since 2008. I'm wondering if a member of the project can have a look and help determine if the subject is a notable journalist or not. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:54, 29 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for bringing attention to this. It is marginal at best and is written like an advertisement. I've nominated for deletion. I note that it was created by an SPA and is apparently self-promotion. These kinds of articles often fall through the cracks and I find are quite common as articles about publicists and journalists. Coretheapple (talk) 12:55, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Reliable Circulation Figures for Newspapers
For US newspapers, circulation figures used to be cited from the Audit Bureau Circulation. However, this source is no longer available, and I don't know if there is a good replacement. Does anyone have any suggestions for a reliable source for circulation figures? Thanks. Gamesmaster G-9 (talk) 01:18, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Articles for deletion - Murder of Seth Rich (Second nomination)
Currently, there is a second nomination for deletion at a discussion - (an AfD) - pertaining to this article, taking place  here: Articles for deletion/Murder of Seth Rich (2nd nomination)  Steve Quinn (talk) 17:56, 3 October 2016 (UTC)


 * By the way, this post is appropriate per WP:APPNOTE. ---

Looking for assistance with the article Entertainment Journalism
Hi everyone, my name is Matt and I've been working on the stub article Entertainment Journalism. It needs a lot a work and anyone who is interested to take on this endeavor will be of great assistance to me. Check out the full article or my sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nizzafa/sandbox. Your contributions are appreciated! Nizzafa (talk) 04:00, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Ewan Clancy
Am I right to classify Clancy as being part of this WikiProject? He is the subject of a newspaper article rather than the author of the article itself. Spiderone 15:39, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

The Bronx Times
Would somebody from this WikiProject mind taking a look at The Bronx Times and possibly assessing it? The article was recently prodded, but was restored per WP:REFUND. Are there any notability guidelines in addition to WP:GNG and WP:NORG which might specifically apply to online newspapers such as this because the subject does not (at first glance) appear to be notable enough for a stand-alone article. The article has been tagged with maintenance templates since January 2014 so it may simply be a case of WP:NRV. Anyway, any suggestions for improvement or ideas about where to find better sourcing would be most appreciated. Feel free to add them to the article's talk page. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:49, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Fake news website - move discussion
Article is Fake news website.


 * Requested move discussion at: Talk:Fake_news_website. Sagecandor (talk) 13:11, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

New Wikileaking organization
Check out the new article on MormonWikiLeaks.

Sagecandor (talk) 05:40, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

?Unreliable Source: NY Daily News?
I've initiated a discussion @ Reliable sources/Noticeboard to contest a claim that the New York Daily News is not a reliable source. Viewing and comments are invited. Tapered (talk) 00:04, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Thomas Eugene Foulks


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 * non-notable person

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MEMRI
Hello.

Could members of this community please review and discuss changes I'm proposing to the Middle East Media Research Institute page? I work for the organization and have been tasked with representing it on Wikipedia. You can review my first set of recommendations for the "Projects" section here. The draft has been briefly discussed, but I'd like some other points of view. Thank you. R at MEMRI (talk) 19:38, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Talk:New York Daily News
Members of this Wikiproject will probably be interested in this RfC. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:00, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship
Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Requests for adminship.

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 * Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

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Afd
Oregon journalist Mike Bivins is being nominated for deletion. Please weigh in Pittsburghangelsforever (talk) 23:29, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

William Watt
The article on William Watt (journalist) is a bit thin on references and his notablity appears to stem from one regional award as Digital Journalist of the Year in the North West of England, does that make them notable enough for a stand-alone article ? MilborneOne (talk) 09:25, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikitribune
It would be good to state the type of professional organization that Wikitribune is. Due to its founder's past initiatives, it is safe to assume that a lot or readers will believe it to be a not for profit organization, but is it?118.167.186.190 (talk) 06:01, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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See also, section added
Greetings, I added a "See also" section and a wikilink for WP Signpost, to the Newsroom page. It is placed under the "Resources" section. Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 01:53, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Tony Chang for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tony Chang is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Tony Chang until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Opening sentence discussion at Talk:Breitbart News
Hello. I opened the discussion about the opening sentence of "Breitbart News" at "Talk:Breitbart News". Join in. --George Ho (talk) 03:09, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Heads up on Guangming Daily (China) RM
There is an RM started at Talk:Guangming Daily (China), proposing to make that the primary topic for both Guang Ming Daily and Guangming Daily, with Guang Ming Daily (Malaysia) as the secondary topic. Currently there is no PTOPIC. Thanks &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 08:55, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Request for Comment - Introduction to Whataboutism
There is an ongoing Request for Comment about the introduction to the article Whataboutism.

You may comment if you wish, at Talk:Whataboutism. Sagecandor (talk) 17:24, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

New lede at Newspaper
I've written a new lede section for Newspaper. Any comments are requested. The old one is in the "overview" section. Power~enwiki (talk) 00:41, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Samoa Observer vandalized
Hi. Samoa Observer was vandalized a month ago and no-one noticed. It's evidently about a legal conflict that involves the paper, along will allegations of corruption made by the paper, so it may not be simple to police, but someone should probably keep an eye on it. (I won't be here enough to do so.) — kwami (talk) 23:07, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

WSJ
There is a dispute among editors at Talk:The Wall Street Journal regarding The Wall Street Journal, and I welcome additional editors to establish a more clear consensus. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 14:41, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

LocalLabs
I need some of your experts to have a look at this article and its recent expansion. Thanks. There's BLP concerns as well. Drmies (talk) 05:02, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Article on Carolyn Quinn
The article on Carolyn Quinn has been listed as stub-class by WikiProject Biography and WikiProject BBC. It is also within the scope of your WikiProject but it does not appear to have had a rating from your WikiProject. Vorbee (talk) 16:39, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

RfC for pedophilia terminology at the Milo Yiannopoulos article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Milo Yiannopoulos. A permalink for it is here. The discussion concerns whether or not to mention that sources note that Yiannopoulos's definition of pedophilia is technically correct, but also that the term is used more broadly than the technical definition (to include adults engaging in sexual activity with minors, or specifically committing child sexual abuse). Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 21:10, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Journalism

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 16:32, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Requests for comment (RfC)
There is a discussion involving an AfD consensus to merge at Talk:Matt_Lauer Atsme 📞📧 15:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Edit-warring over infobox: newspaper vs. website
A user is edit-warring in an article about a news website trying to put Infobox newspaper instead of website. See: Talk:The Times of Israel. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 21:46, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I reverted Triggerhippie4's changes back to a long standing version of the article, which uses the "newspaper" template for "online newspaper". Triggerhippie4 reverted the revert several times, but neither of us has violated the 3-revert rule (or 1-revert rule per WP:ARBPIAINTRO). There is now a RfC on this issue . OtterAM (talk) 00:45, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Help needed to update and expand the Wikipedia page/stub Interpretive journalism
Help is needed to make this page Interpretive journalism better by adding more citations, relevant real world news article examples and pictures and the current scenario of Interpretative Journalism in the modern world. The page also needs cleaning up to make sure it doesn't directly quote sources. Thank you to all those who help in advance :)

DiplomatTesterMan (talk) 08:58, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Request for review of issue on NBC News article
I have started a discussion about what I consider to be an incomplete and misleading paragraph in the NBC News article about the Harvey Weinstein investigation: Talk:NBC_News

I'm an experienced Wikipedia editor but as a paid consultant to NBC News, I am seeking an independent review of my proposed changes, as per WP: COI. Thanks! BC1278 (talk) 21:23, 14 February 2018 (UTC)BC1278

Help with Matt Lauer issue in NBC News
Hi,

I've proposed new language on the NBC News article regarding the description of the Matt Lauer sexual misconduct allegations. Right now, the only mention is criticism of NBC, even though others said NBC handled the situation well.

I am an experienced Wikipedia editor and a paid consultant to NBC News. As such, I am hoping to find editors to review the proposed new language at: Talk:NBC_News

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! BC1278 (talk) 22:15, 14 February 2018 (UTC)BC1278

Created new article, Media coverage of the Bengal famine of 1943
[cross-posted on Talk:Bengal famine of 1943]

The section on " Media coverage of the Bengal famine of 1943" is already too long in an article that is generally concerned with wholly separate issues. The issue of media coverage, unlike such things as the origins of the famine, is not directly germane to the famine itself, except with respect to the Statesman articles and their very direct and very tangible impact... I also shortened the "other media" section a tad and merged it with media (and properly so)...

To aid in this effort, I have started a new article, Media coverage of the Bengal famine of 1943, and will cleanup/extend bit by bit as per eventualism.


 * There was of course a great deal of political hay-making going on in the media, as nationalist papers hammered the UK govt. Publications such as The Statesman, Amrita Bazar Patrika, Biplabi, and the Indian Communist Party's organ, The People's War, defied gov't arm-twisting and outright censorship; even the word "famine" was banned as a political tactic...this is a journalism major's dream topic.
 * There was of course tremendous speculation – now completely irrelevant, except for brief mention– of the causes of the famine. That blind speculation of the day has been supplanted by modern analyses, which are covered in depth in this article, but they would be fascinating to see in an article about media coverage...

And many other topics to be explored. All of this will total up to really really really significant verbiage – far far far too much for an article that is already large.

I think it will be an excellent article and a fit project for valiant editors to expand and enrich. Lingzhi ♦ (talk)