Talk:The Spartan Daily

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Hi @SammySpartan, thanks for creating this article (and your work on other SJSU topics)! I was formerly on the staff of the paper, so I'm not going to edit the article directly, but I did want to point out some issues:

My understanding is that the Daily has not issued a print copy since the pandemic began, i.e. it's all online now.
The Spear, Update News, etc. are all separate publications/organizations at SJSU and not under the umbrella of The Spartan Daily.
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily/ is a better link to the archives since the current link (note the lack of underscore) goes up to 2018.

The first two are original research, so I don't have sources, but I'm curious where you found sources to the contrary.

Thanks again! Legoktm (talk) 02:47, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for reaching out! I generally agree with the issues you pointed out, but wasn't able to find proper sources for them, so left them as-is until better sources could be found. For example:

• I agree that The Daily hasn't actually been published in print for a couple of years now, but online sources still refer to it as a print newspaper, including the "about us" and "donate" sections on the Daily's website, and other places that refer to the Daily such as here and here. I've yet to find any sources that explicitly say that they're currently online only - I'm sure they published an article or something about the change from around the time it happened but I haven't had the time to go digging.

• I included the Spear, Update News, etc. based on their inclusion in the "Publications" section of the daily's website, though I recognize that they're separate organizations. Maybe we should rename the section on the Wikipedia page to "Related Publications"?

I'm happy to change things around as needed if better sources pop up. Thank you for the better link for the archives! SammySpartan (talk) 17:17, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]