Talk:The Commercial Appeal

Editorials and neutral point of view

This needs some work now. I don't think that any newspaper's editorials are "neutral point of view" – that's not what editorials are. I think that the article used to say that they were nonpartisan, moderate, or something like that, which is more appropriate. (The CA is far less Republican than its Eaststate Scripps counterpart The Knoxville News-Sentinel, for example). Someone who is more awake than I am right now needs to be the one to fix this, though. Rlquall 13:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Transport of dismantled press

The article holds that on June 6, 1863, the Hoe press was loaded onto "a boxcar". This is legend, just like the story that the Appeal was printed IN a boxcar. The dismantled press was loaded on eight wagons and traveled South by road. The press was much too large for boxcars of the era (measuring 8 ft high, 5 ft wide, 12 ft long). It had to be dismantled, and it was too risky to plan the complicated move using railroad boxcars that could be commmandeered by the army. Even if they had used RR boxcars, it would have taken at least two civil war era boxcars for all machine parts. Source: B.G. Ellis, The Moving Appeal, Mercer University Press, Macon, 2003, p. 6. [10 September 2011] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.12.234.145 (talk) 11:50, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 2 February 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. Despite the website's branding, the last link provided in the opposing comment has a link to the "eEdition" for February 1, 2023, and it still shows "The" at the top of the front page (albeit in a small font on a separate line from the rest). —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 15:10, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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The Commercial Appeal → Commercial Appeal – As was the case for the Courier Journal, discussed at Talk:Courier Journal#Requested move 1 January 2023, Gannett has applied its USA Today corporate branding style to this newspaper, and has dropped "The" from its nameplate. See the website, http://commercialappeal.com/, which does not include "The" in the domain name or top-of-page logo. For newspapers, Wikipedia ordinarily follows the nameplate title. (If anyone has access to a recent physical printed issue of this newspaper, it would be nice to know whether the nameplate is the same as on the website or still includes "The"; the picture in the article is from 2016, and I suspect it is not what the paper looks like now.) —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 03:26, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

• Support if we receive confirmation that the print edition has dropped the "The" too, per our standard practice for periodicals. I have posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennessee to see if anyone can provide confirmation. Graham (talk) 04:05, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose The website's title bar uses "The". Here's a 2021 self-reference using "The". Here's a February 1, 2023, article with "The" in the byline. (Also note the photo credit.) NatureBoyMD (talk) 14:01, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.