Talk:National Police Gazette

Unnecessary deletions and no source for claim

Legitimate changes were reversed at 19:09, 17 March 2010. One issue is that no source is provided supporting the claim that "The current ownership group has published the Police Gazette on a regular basis since 1977."

The other change unnecessarily deleted concerns the conflict in trademark ownership. The website www.policegazette.us also claims ownership of the trademark, as can be seen here [1].

SHBpedia (talk) 00:58, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

First of all, your changes were improper. The source was appropriately listed and referenced properly. Your sources are all from one single solitary source, namely a website that is "largely not acceptable" according to Wikipedia guidelines. Your references appear unsuitable according to Wikipedia policies and procedures which are "Self-published sources (online and paper). Anyone can create a website or pay to have a book published, then claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason self-published media, whether books, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, blogs, Internet forum postings, tweets, etc., are largely not acceptable." Just because a website claims to have a trademark is just that--only a claim and nothing more. The single source you provide is self-promotional and a self-proclamation in that it all stems from a self-published source. Even if you omitted the print edition of the Police Gazette, others precede policegazette.us and have a prior claim to the name Police Gazette, including policegazette.com which has been on the Internet since 1998 which surpasses policegazette.us by 11 years so such a trademark claim is arguable and highly disputable in this respect.

Newspaperpublisher (talk) 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I stand by my edits.

And since you bring it up, I'll just point out that as of today's date policegazette.COM has never contained any material about the National Police Gazette, and has not had anything live for years.

SHBpedia (talk) 23:15, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Again, we are not talking about material about the Police Gazette. We are talking about the usage of the name in particular. You cannot dispute the points I raised as they are completely valid. And policegazette.com is "live" whether they have material about the Police Gazette or not and it precedes policegazette.us using the name which is precisely my very point. At least you admit to their existence by your own comments. Your edits were improper under the circumstances; they are self-published online sources which you cannot deny.

Newspaperpublisher (talk) 02:23, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Something is wrong

What's missing from the article is something to account for this: Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, I can tell you that the Police Gazette was the most prominent tabloid you'd see in grocery and drug stores, and lying around barber shops. In particular, they kept headlining claims that Adolph Hitler was alive and living in Argentina. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.13.189.102 (talk) 10:37, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Is "Research" Ridiculously Innumerate?

I was reading Harold Schechter's book about the history of violent entertainment "Savage Pastimes", and apparently the Police Gazette was THE "read about brutal killings" tabloid mag of all human history, with a RIDICULOUS circulation number in the millions, for a LONG time, especially in the 19th century. I don't see that reflected in any of these Wikipedia articles about different incarnations of the magazine--I mean when "Moby Dick" prints 1,500 copies in 1865 and "Police Gazette" does "1,500,000," because people love the violent stories, this seems notable to me. Lorryrider (talk) 02:13, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

It wasn't all violence -- there was sex too... Anyway, "Moby Dick" was very self-consciously arty -- it would be better to compare against the print run of something like "Uncle Tom's Cabin". AnonMoos (talk) 02:57, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Steve Brodie

And his supposed jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Discussion of the PG's role in this would be useful. 73.70.250.164 (talk) 16:33, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship

Missing links to Bare Knuckle FC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.204.56 (talk) 19:35, 16 April 2019 (UTC)