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Please comment. I just listed this article on the Cleanup page. I'll be happy to clean up this page, and to poke around cleaning up pages like this, but for a newbie (me), this article is a good example of "What do I do now?"

A dicdef followed by an unrelated article is an obvious candidate for cleanup, but what's the best approach? Omit the dicdef altogether? Make a stub from it and hope somebody expands it into a real article? Split the two and create a disambiguation page, and let somebody else decide what to do with the dicdef? Any opinions? A. J. A. DeWitt 20:25, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean by an 'unrelated article', but I think this one would benefit from less sectioning - the content of the Publication and Categories sections is fine, but does it really need to be separated? I think not... Barnabypage 08:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Suggestion 2 Category 3 Background information 4 Why the name magazine? 5 Commercial Alert link (removed) 6 please comment at Talk:Contact_magazine 7 link to 'periodical' 8 history? 9 Cuckoo in the nest

[edit] Suggestion

I suspect the paper magazine to be the most prominent search. So I'd suggest to start the page of with something like:

This page is about ... if you're looking for an article regarding firearms please go here. If you're looking for the band go here (put in links)

Otherwise keep the content and expand on magazines and their editorial process perhaps, include e-zines? -- MGM 22:01, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)

This page needs to be made into a disambiguation page if content is to grow. How about splitting the content between Magazine (medium), Magazine (band) (already exists) and Magazine (firearms). I'm not sure about the last one. Any suggestions?--[[User:HamYoyo|HamYoyo|TALK]] 18:57, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

Seems this has been taken care of. ike9898 23:00, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category

This article does not belong in the category 'Magazine publishers', because it is not an article about magazine publishers. I think that's all that needs to be said. That is the convention on how categories are used in Wikipedia. If you want to add this category back, please discuss it here first. ike9898 23:00, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Background information

It would be great if someone knowledgeable on the subject could add a little tidbit as to why monthly magazines are printed one month in advance. Thanks for your consideration. --Cioxx 13:14, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why the name magazine?

Magazine used to mean store house. Somewhere along the line it became used for periodical booklet. Does anyone know how this happened? --njh 18:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

The following is from etymonline.com:

1583, "place where goods are stored, esp. military ammunition," from M.Fr. magasin "warehouse, depot, store," from It. magazzino, from Arabic makhazin, pl. of makhzan "storehouse," from khazana "to store up." The original sense is almost obsolete; meaning "periodical journal" dates from the publication of the first one, "Gentleman's Magazine," in 1731, from earlier use of the word for a printed list of military stores and information, or in a fig. sense, from the publication being a "storehouse" of information. Barnabypage 13:22, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

An article on 'magazine' in the arsenal rather than publishing context would be useful. If anyone has the requisite knowledge please add it. 84.69.120.56 11:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commercial Alert link (removed)

This belongs in an article on anti-consumerism or anti-commercialism, but doesn't add to understanding of magazines. Barnabypage 12:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] please comment at Talk:Contact_magazine

Please comment at Talk:Contact magazine. Lillies (who has only made 2 edits to wikipedia) edited Contact magazine and I think Lillies' main change is dubious. --EarthFurst 00:37, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] link to 'periodical'

The word "periodical" in the first sentence links back to this page and doesn't provide any further information. For now, the hyperlink should be removed. Unfortunately, I dodn't see an edit tab for the top of the article and I'm not sure how it should be done. --Absolute Zerr 3:30 EST, 31 December 2006

Never mind, It's done.

[edit] history?

Wow, this article needs a lot of work...anyone with some knowledge in this subject?

[edit] Cuckoo in the nest

Why is there a lengthy plug for FAIR in this article? Should it not be removed? What has it to do with the subject of the article? Godingo 18:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, and removed - if on Wikipedia at all, it should be an article in its own right. It adds nothing to understanding of the broad concept 'magazine'. Barnabypage 01:11, 27 February 2007 (UTC)