Talk:Hot Press (magazine)

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[edit] Bias/ NPOV

This article is currently an advertisement for Hotpress from begining to end. It deserves deletion, although it would probably fail given the subject's notablilty. Pathlessdesert 23:52, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree but don't delete it. I found it a few days ago and was amazed myself at the condition it was in. Believe it or not it was worse than this. I'm attempting to sort out the mess but it may take some time. I'm fascinated by how it has gone unnoticed until now. Candlewicke 05:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions for more improvements

• The material about the price per copy has little value - it's not useful to a random WP reader and will be a nightmare to keep relevant and current, since international prices are constantly being altered by distribution and handling costs, taxes, exchange rates, etc. Let's cut it.
• The Music section is just a gushing vomit of name-dropping. This stuff should be put into a table, and merged with the Interviews section. Although it's still worthless as a reference piece unless citations of when the first interviews were published are added to the table.
• The intro mentions political coverage and anti-estalishment stance (however that might be defined), but the rest of the article is focused only on music. Why is there no list of political stories of value? Can we not tabulate some investigative reports that are perhaps at least as significant as a Kylie Minogue interview??? JXM 05:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

• Just in relation to the prices; they're on the cover of the magazine hence why it's included here. The political stories is a good idea. 2yellowcards 10:19 12 October 2006 (IST)

• JXM is correct about those improvements. Prices being listed on the cover isn't a valid reason for inclusion on Wikipedia - they're coming off. In fact, listing the prices may be against Wikipedia policy regarding articles about products because an article is meant to be about the content and cultural impact, not irrelevant details like cover price. The only real reason for listing the prices is to promote this magazine on Wikipedia, which is obviously why the article was started originally. The "Interviews" section still reads like an advert.

I've also removed the blatant external link spam for Amazon that definitely doesn't belong on WIkipedia.172.141.193.135 01:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)