Talk:The Mendota Beacon

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The Mendota Beacon is part of a larger movement to provide outlets for conservative views on college campuses across the U.S. I will look for information on the funding/organization behind this movement and add that info here (and possibly create an article for it if need be). If anyone has info or ideas for further categorization for this article it would be appreciated.--Hraefen 17:35, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

I've reverted the change made by an anon which removed the mention of The Beacon being affiliated with the college republicans (pending evidence justifying removal).--Hraefen 21:10, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm the publisher of The Mendota Beacon; the paper is not affiliated with the College Republicans. An incorrect news article appeared in the Daily Cardinal prior to our formation despite an explicit statement that there was no affiliation. We found this article because our web site's inbound link tracking software referenced it as a referrer and took the opportunity to correct the error, which was no doubt caused by inaccurate reporting by another paper. Please feel free to contact me at t.shea@mendotabeacon.com if you wish to discuss this any more. I will remove the reference to affiliation again.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.180.185.127 (talk • contribs) 07:16, December 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Citation

I added a brief note about Robert Thelen III, who was part of a cover story in the local paper "Isthmus". I added a link initially, but the only place I found it on the web....was on the website for the person he debated (Rae Vogeler). So I removed that link. There is a source for the info, though....NickBurns 12:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Not all cited sources need to be available online. Cite Isthmus as you would cite any other printed material: Author, title, publication name, issue date, page numbers. You can use {{cite news}} to help you. Use the first reference as a model. (If the Beacon references had been cited that way, readers would have a better chance of being able to find the articles in question, even if they had to go to a Madison library to get them. Now all we have are two broken links.)

Does the part you added about Thelen actually belong in this article, though? It’s an article about the newspaper, not about Thelen.

And has the paper always just been called Isthmus? I thought it used to be called The Isthmus. Maybe that’s just what everyone else calls it. I’ve been away awhile. --Rob Kennedy 17:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info on citations, I will take a look at that a.s.a.p. and make a fix.

I would make a case for the mention being a part of the article, as it discusses one of the founders of the paper under the "Staff" subsection, and a notable debate he was involved in. With all due respect to him as an individual, I don't think he would merit his own article, so this seemed like a good place for it.

The masthead of the paper reads solely, "Isthmus". NickBurns 18:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

I am the editor of the Mendota Beacon. I am removing the deletion warning as we do still continue to publish biweekly. This Tuesday saw our sixth issue of the semester. Our website went down a few weeks ago and we are continuing to work on those technical difficulties.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 146.151.69.114 (talk • contribs) 01:38, April 19, 2007 (UTC)

I have not seen a Mendota Beacon available for distribution on the UW-Madison campus for a year, and hence have put this article in the past tense. Did the Mendota Beacon stop publishing in 2006 or 2007? 144.92.110.189 (talk) 00:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)