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October 2018

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Art Ducko (December 19)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Nathan Levy (May 8)

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May 2019

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COI Edit Request Assistance Catlin Gabel School

Hi User:Eric Schucht. I see you participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon and was wondering if you would be able to assist me with edits/update to the Catlin Gabel School page? I am in a COI/paid relationship with them and am working within the Wikipedia rules to make some updates. If you are amenable to this request, we can continue our conversation on the school's page. I have a request there awaiting review. Editor User:PortlandSaint helped me with a few edits, but has perhaps gotten busy. I'd greatly appreciate your consideration of my request. My ultimate goals are always to improve Wikipedia and work within the rules and guidelines to update articles. Thank you LeepKendall (talk) 16:55, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Hitler-fighter articles need help: Erhard Auer & Münchener Post

Erhard Auer was the Editor in Chief of the Münchener Post, it was shut down by Hitler in March 1933 immediately after he became the Reich Chancellor. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party called the newspaper and its editors "Giftküche" (The Poison Kitchen) and "Münchener Pest ("Munich Pestilence" or "Munich Plague"). Hitler considered the paper one of his most vexing public adversaries, and the paper was the target of libel actions by the Nazi Party. The paper was one of the few early warning voices regarding the dangers posed by the rise of the Nazi Party, although their warnings went largely unheeded at the time. Auer was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and died 20 March 1945. The first book written on Erhard Auer and the Münchener Post was in 2013, in Brazil. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 19:52, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

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February 2023

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Sorry

Sorry about this. I don't know what I was thinking and wonder if I may have had a senior moment there. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 19:38, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Australian newspapers

Interesting that you add journalism project - are you aware of the relationship between the newspaper and journalism projects, that it is such that there is an argument possible that you are unnecessarily adding a redundancy?

The same question could be specifically asked of the -

Ships and Shipwreck

Death and Cemeteries

There are many other similar combinations, and I cannot remember ever seeing discussions

about whether redundancies (as perceived in these circumstances) were actually resolved,

there are very few if any recognised policy/guidelines as to project tagging... unless I missed something...

I would be very interested in your take - as having done the australian items - by precedent alone - the rest of the world waits your touch... Or perhaps what the item that suggested to you the process of adding extra tags, as guidelines of adding such closely related items are non existent. Death and cemeteries for instance is an interesting double tag that is usually found.

For the note - a considerable number of the Australian newspaper articles were created before newspaper project was started. At that stage the journalism project tag was the default choice.

They were created some years ago during a nationally coordinated exercise in trying to correlate newspaper articles with items that existed in the National Library Trove collection - so that references utilising trove collected items would not be all red links. Those items used the journalism tag, as the newspaper project and tag were not available at that time.

You may well have a good reply, or even find in my edit history inconsistencies with project tagging, the interest here is to let you know the background of the group of oz arts and tagging, and possibly a point or two for discussion... JarrahTree 13:19, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

I agree that using both the Newspapers and Journalism WikiProject tags is redundant. In my opinion, Newspapers should just be a work group or subset of Journalism. The reason I use both is for consistency. There is no set policy that I'm aware of that says both should always be used, but I've come to find that many pages about newspaper use one or the other, but a lot of times both. I've even found some that are tagged with the Brands or Media WikiProject tags, which I find too broad. So right now I'm adding both Newspapers and Journalism because they both seem to fit these pages the best and I don't know of an alternative solution. Eric Schucht (talk) 14:20, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply - I have a deep distrust of the 'media' tag after years or so of tagging...- if you have removed brands and media, thanks. Maybe we just leave as is - correcting obvious mistakes happens, but hey, cest la vie, or whatever it is. Keep up the good work! JarrahTree 04:37, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! You too. Eric Schucht (talk) 04:41, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

wp:journalism

Hi there may I ask why are you adding wp:journalism although there is wp:newspaper? Egeymi (talk) 22:40, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

For consistency. It appears most articles on newspapers have both the journalism and newspaper tags, so I always add both. Eric Schucht (talk) 23:50, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello again, you're just adding redundant wps bc WP:Journalism is a parent WP and WP:Newspapers is part of it. Hope you'll stop adding it. --Egeymi (talk) 15:37, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Eric Schucht. Thank you for your work on CherryRoad Media. User:North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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Epoch Times

I just read Wikipedia's version or description of the Epoch Times. I find it amazing how the Epoch Times can be characterized by Wikipedia, and by yourself Eric, with such glaring inaccuracies when other truly slanted and clearly ajendized publications that interestingly enough are opposite or opposed to what the Epoch Times stands for are not characterized in the same fashion albeit opposite of. It truly shows the clear lack of any true "journalism" on Wikipedia's part. But deep inside I'm confident that you know and understand what I am saying 100%. Sad. Steven Gehrke

DYK for Winsted Citizen

On 29 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Winsted Citizen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2023, Ralph Nader founded the newspaper Winsted Citizen in his hometown of Winsted, Connecticut, where he delivered papers as a boy? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Winsted Citizen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Winsted Citizen), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Kusma (talk) 13:07, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Whitehorse Star

I am assuming that you have an interest in this publication, and I know that geographically you are far nearer that newspaper's location than I am. A question I posed on the article's talk page some time ago asked whether the organ is actually named the '''Whitehorse Daily Star'''. Certainly its online site used that title a couple of years ago. I realise that the paper no longer publishes on a daily basis, so perhaps the name has altered accordingly. I have no real interest as such, other than trying to ensure the Wikipedia article uses the correct title for the newspaper. Any thoughts ? Thanks. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:51, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

The newspaper was called the Whitehorse Daily Star until 2019 when they dropped the word Daily from the name after they cut back on print days. Here's my source:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/q-a-jim-butler-whitehorse-star-closing-1.7167136 Eric Schucht (talk) 01:45, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

OK. Thank you for that. If it is fine with you, for completion I will copy your statement over to the article's talk page. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 11:24, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

That is fine by me. Eric Schucht (talk) 17:45, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 19:13, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Could use some advice...

Hey Eric Schucht!

I've seen your name and your awesome work around a good deal, especially on newspaper articles, and was hoping you'd be willing to give some advice on expanding newspaper articles, especially their history.

So, I came across your edit at The Olympian - [1] - about the 2024 print decrease (you beat me to it!) - and I've been loathe to use sources that report on themselves because over at many of the WP's regarding sourcing, self-reporting isn't great. However, as you obviously know, newspapers are gonna have to report on themselves (well, outside of FoxNews and CNN constantly "reporting" how much the other sucks).

I've been wanting to expand on the historical background of The Chronicle (Centralia, Washington) - it's absorbing/buying up competition, the early newspaper history in the city - and have gathered limited sources over the years so far. Unfortunately, only in-depth reporting comes from itself (there's some from extinct newspapers in Chehalis, Washington). Could not find anything definitive in consensus discussions, so based on your expertise, is there leeway here I can be comfortable with regarding self-reporting from The Chronicle?

I'm not in any great rush to work on that Chronicle history, but my thanks if you can provide some guidance before when I think I'm ready. Again, awesome work over 17,000 edits. A bit jealous!

Shortiefourten (talk) 17:58, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Hmmm, well no one has ever scolded me for using newspapers as sources on themselves. Even the page on The New York Times uses self-reported sources. You just gotta use your own judgment, I think. Otherwise most wiki pages on newspapers would be blank because they're too small for any other media outlet to care about.

As for sources on The Chronicle, I suggest looking through the paper's digital archive on newspapers.com. The other option is to try finding a local history book focusing on Lewis County. Google Books might be a good place to check for old stuff in the public domain. Eric Schucht (talk) 23:54, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Eric,

Yeah, my logical assessment as well, but man, can some editors be sticklers, though, which is why I wanted to reach out first to someone with the experience before I made a move. I do have some books set aside as well as some newpaperarchive.com stuff, but the good stuff is directly from The Chronicle. But I'll keep looking. Maybe by the summer, after I finish some other works here, I'll be ready to go.

Thanks for the link and for giving me some feedback! No doubt I'll see your name pop-up and I know it'll be great work, like usual. Again, jealous.

Shortiefourten (talk) 15:03, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

May 2024

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Thoughts on circulation, notability, and reliable sources

Hi, Eric! You look like just the person I need to consult. (Unrelated: I see you once worked for the Everett Herald, my family lived in Anacortes for 50 years.) I have two questions, one narrow, one broad. Answers to these questions might be helpful to you as well in overcoming objections:

Narrow question: I see that you regularly edit List of newspapers in Texas, and that the principal source for this list is the Texas Newspaper Directory. There is a column for circulation for each of those papers, and I'm wondering whether it should be changed to indicate "Print circulation." Here's why:

I followed the link to their publication, downloaded and reviewed it. I noticed that for each entry, below the titles and founding dates, there are five blocks of data, the fourth of which is for publication days, page size, column width, and circulation.

I'm living in El Paso, so I checked the entry for the El Paso Times. (In a minute you'll see what I'm getting at.) Now, I have a couple of lists that show that in 2023, the El Paso Times was the sixth leading newspaper by circulation in Texas. About themselves, the El Paso Times says the following:

Circulation: 35,023 daily; 117,715 Sunday
The El Paso Times has proudly served far West Texas and southern New Mexico residents since 1881. The El Paso Times is read daily by about 180,400 people and provides the most comprehensive news coverage of El Paso County.

The TND reports the EPT's circulation at 9,625, 72.5 percent less than the daily figure reported by the newspaper at their website, 92 percent less than the Sunday edition. It looks like TND is reporting print specifically and not digital circulation. The WP entry for the El Paso Times follows suit, citing the circulation figure from the TND.

The actual circulation is relevant to my second question, which is whether, at the levels of circulation claimed by the El Paso Times, this newspaper, or any others in the Paso del Norte region, such as El Diario in Ciudad Juarez, meet requirements for reliable sources in WP:NEWSORG,WP:SOURCE, and WP:SOURCES; and specifically in respect of reporting on organizations, whether their reports meet the requirements of WP:AUD. I have my own opinion, but would like to hear yours.

WilliamEHillis (talk) 00:36, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi William,

Narrow Answer: I think the circulation numbers in the Texas Newspaper Directory includes both print and digital subscriptions. If you look at the circulation number for The Dallas Morning News in the TND, it appears to be the total number. You can check by looking at the newspaper's Wiki page at the circulation numbers listed in the infobox. Those numbers come from the company's annual 10-K filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I trust them to be correct as I assume it's a crime to lie or misrepresent numbers on a government form.

As for those circulation numbers you have for the El Paso Times, I assume you go them from this webpage. I have no idea what year those number are from. They could be a decade old for all I know. TND is dated and I assume they either get their circulation numbers from the paper's themselves, an auditing service like Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK) or from the post office via the Statement of Ownership, which you can do a FOIA request for if you want a copy. The point is I trust the TND numbers more than the paper's self-reported numbers that are undated and unsourced.

Broad Answer: Circulation size doesn't matter when it comes to whether or not a newspaper is a reliable source. I advise you to read the essay Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Notability from WikiProject Newspapers. It can answer this question better than I can.

Eric Schucht (talk) 22:06, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Eric! Your reply has been very helpful.

friendly regards, William

WilliamEHillis (talk) 01:56, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

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Hi - just wanted to say thanks for your changes on The Advertiser News - just a couple hours after I put a {{no sources}} template on the article you cleaned it all up and put fresh sources on there. Good work! BugGhost🪲👻 09:18, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

No problem! Turns out there were two of the same page: The Advertiser News and Advertiser News. So I just merged the sources over from the latter and turned it into a redirect. Funny that there was duplicate articles for like a decade and no one ever noticed. Eric Schucht (talk) 11:57, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

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