Talk:The Athletic
outside perspective on importance of subject + simple vs normal english wikipedia?
changeit looks like there has been some discussion about whether this article deserves deletion, i'm guessing because of questions about neutral point of view? not going to get into that becasue i dont want there to be questions about me being a sock puppet or something, i truly am just coming in here as a wikipedia reader who ran into a confusing issue.
The confusion arose because i am using an article from the athletic for a project i'm working on, and while properly referencing it, I was confused about the publication's relationship to the new york times. Obviously the article's content would have more weight if i could point out that the publication was from the NY times, so i was trying to figure out what relationship the two had, if any. It appears from my own research that it was bought by the NY times and used to completely replace their internal sports department back in 2022.
But i was confused, because the first article i found was this: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Athletic which seemed to be about the same publication, but it contained no reference whatsoever to the new york times. To be honest, i didnt even know there was a "simple english" version of wikipedia prior to this.
I am adding this comment because it seems there is some people interested in maintaining this article, and to point out that having an article in the other english version of wikipedia that is so outdated is problematic.
I also felt it might help inform the discussion as to whether the article subject is notable enough to have its own wikipedia page. I am a random person who came to wikipdia to find out more about this website/publication, so take this as a data point, whatever that is worth.
I'm going to cross post this on the talk page in the "simple" wikipedia wiki (the entire idea behind that, side note, i think is a bad idea. It's a trap begging for bad or outdated information articles to exist, IMO. I wonder if a discussion on the potential benefit vs likelyhood of harm has been had as to this alternate-version-english-wikipedia site?
- Laced8 (i am not on my home computer, so avoiding logging in at the moment)