Talk:VegNews

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i see sources listed, why is this article tagged? PermanentVacay (talk) 23:49, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A non-notable award for a magazine, cited to the magazine itself is meaningless. An actor gets an award from "Jimmy Joe Bob's Movie Blog" and notes it on their website; it's meaningless. That same actor gets an Oscar, it's in the New York Times; it's meaningful. The Oscar, with a blue link, goes in the article. The blog award does not. -

• Inclined to agree (for some reason this article is on my watch list). I'd say most if not all of the awards can be cut, simply because it's a little egregious on an encyclopedia article. Protonk (talk) 13:46, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've yanked all of the redlink awards (including a blue link to an unrelated article). This leaves two mentions in articles by notable publications. They are likely true, but hardly noteworthy. An article author listing a few things to read over the summer is not an "award". In any case, I've tagged them for independent sources for now. Noteworthy, meaningful awards will have coverage in sources independent of the "award". Others will not. I'll come back in a few, try for sources myself, then yank them. -

I would like to see the importance of VegNews compared with the history of OTHER vegetarian (and vegan) magazines in the cultures of North America and Europe. We ought to be able to look at them in comparison, and what the public most savors is as journalistic as the magazine itself, how it is part of publishing to and for the "communities" of plant-based diet practitioners. Stephen Smith's work (from Los Angeles) is not to be overlooked, nor is the work in the early 20th century AND in the 19th century. The personality and character of VegNews reflects the sponsors, publishers, working staff, contributors, and others involved, and that is not to be 'merely swallowed' uncritically. Wikipedia MAY have a journalistic role that the magazines themselves overlook in favor of their own 'internal politics' of interest. MaynardClark (talk) 15:49, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]