Talk:Amiga Addict

Page re-added with press citations and further history

Amiga Addict is of historical importance being the first British Amiga magazine to be published and sold on newsstands in over 14 years. The publication has included exclusive interviews with computing legends such as Trip Hawkins of Electronic Arts, as well as promoting free long-standing Amiga computing services such Aminet.

Citations have also been added from The Guardian newspaper and Retro Gamer magazine, showing the publication is worthy of inclusion here. Jonahnaylor (talk) 15:00, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Notability guidelines

This page has been flagged for possibly not meeting notability guidelines, however the magazine is no different to many of the others listed in this category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_magazines_published_in_the_United_Kingdom

In fact, if you take a look at some publications like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Force within the games section, there is less information given and less sources cited. Amiga Addict has also produced more issues/magazines than many of the other titles listed too (Amiga Force produced 16, while at the time of writing Amiga Addict has done 27). So I feel notability should not be questioned. Jonahnaylor (talk) 09:23, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi, there are many articles on Wikipedia that do not meet notability guidelines and should be deleted. So we need to focus on the matter at hand, not other articles.

The question is whether Amiga Addict has at least two pieces of significant coverage in reliable, unaffiliated sources. You (or others) will need to demonstrate that it does before the notability tag can be removed. MarchOfTheGreyhounds 21:46, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi thanks for your reply. Five references/links from other well-established online sources have now been added. Let me know if you need more, but so far there is The Guardian Newspaper and Retro Gamer Magazine (both long-running and well-known publications here in the UK). Amiga Addict is also held in the national British Library in London (and can be search for on their website), and a full description of the magazine is also given on the AMR (Amiga Magazine Rack website) here: https://amr.abime.net/magazine_info_83

Thanks for your help and I've now removed the notability flag as hopefully this now is enough evidence for you. Jonahnaylor (talk) 09:17, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Where is the Retro Gamer piece you mentioned? I'm not seeing it in the article.

The Guardian article is really a mention. It's 49 words so doesn't add up to significant coverage. More is needed to demonstrate the article meets general notability guidelines in my opinion.

By the way, I'm not the one who added the notability tag, I just want to help you understand the requirements. MarchOfTheGreyhounds 11:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi thanks for your help. Retro Gamer is a print magazine - do you need a scan of the pages uploading? Or a link to the front cover online? The Retro Gamer publication is sold in newsagents worldwide, but being a printed magazine there is no link I know of to their content/articles, those can't be openly republished due to copyright of course. I can send a photo of the copy I bought to prove Amiga Addict was covered in it if needed?

Retro Gamer magazine is on Wikipedia themselves here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Gamer

Amiga Addict is a printed computer magazine just as they are, so it does seem unfair that there is a need to justify being on the Wiki when both publications do the same job and have a similar audience. Retro Gamer have been going longer and are still active. Other similar magazines are on Wikipedia with no notability issues that haven't produced as many issues as Amiga Addict has. While others, such as Byte magazine for example closed down many years ago and are no longer active.

What makes Amiga Addict just as notable as all the others is the contents of the magazine, the interview guests, histories included and ex-industry legends interviewed. Jonahnaylor (talk) 23:03, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

No, it's fine to cite to a print magazine like Retro Gamer. There are lots of citation templates you can use, but it would help prove notability to show cite them somewhere in the article.

I appreciate what you're saying about the interviews conducted by Amiga Addict. But the notability guidelines in Wikipedia terms can be found in the magazine section of Wikipedia:Notability (media). It's possible that Amiga addict meets 3 or 4 (I don't think the niche is significant enough for 5). But better sourcing will help to establish this!

By the way, I know it seems unfair, but all I'm doing is explaining the notability guideliness to you. I didn't make the rules and I'm not enforcing them either, just telling you what notability means on Wikipedia. I think Amiga Addict is probably notable for what it's worth.

Referencing other magazines on Wikipedia isn't going to help your case though. Many of those pages probably don't meet notability guidelines. MarchOfTheGreyhounds 10:01, 15 March 2024 (UTC)