Talk:List of newspapers in Australia

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Contents 1 earlier comments 2 Defunct 3 Murdoch 4 Breaking up the list into States and Territories? 5 Cleanup

[edit] earlier comments

Newspapers really should not have "The" in their article name. That is the article on The Border Mail should be called the Border Mail. Any opinions?--A Y Arktos 11:31, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Can there be statistics on each newspapers readership (i.e. approx. how many ppl read it)? unsigned

[edit] Defunct

Shouldnt there be a separate list of defunct newspapers? SatuSuro 01:12, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Murdoch

How many of theis papers are owned by Rupert Murdoch? --J intela 01:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

J intela, you can find a list of all the newspapers owned by Murdoch at List of assets owned by News Corporation --Wiki apprentice (talk) 03:03, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Breaking up the list into States and Territories?

The list is getting long (Not a lot of links to articles however) which can make it hard to read the section you want. Should it or shouldn't it be broken up some how? Bidgee (talk) 13:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Support - break up to states -

• but not moving the red links - it should be no linked article no mention, if lists have large amount of grey or red links they should be pruned or the list got rid of
• also the lead sentence should not be a see also or external link location - bad mos
• current state a bad
• prod- able in its current state SatuSuro 15:16, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree! Also some of the papers have external links and when it should have a wiki link. Bidgee (talk) 15:56, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

This list suffers from a range of issues:

• Listing active and defunct newspapers at the same time
• Ad hoc additions of information that has not been cleaned up
• A complete mix of blue, red and grey links
• Ext links mixed up and not cleaned up
• Low interest over time to actually maintain a consistent standard

• Consequently - I suggest:-
  • a slow but gradual divestment of all grey and red links - no article - no mention
  • a slow check against state projects to see if they have parallel state lists
  • a separate list of defunct newspapers and a change in lead para of this list to identify active newspapers
    • setting a standard on this page for following eds to see SatuSuro 01:30, 24 May 2008 (UTC)