# Talk:Crash (magazine)

Oscarthecat, thx for reverting the wiki on Europress - my mistake, I hadn't noticed the earlier mention! Barnabypage 16:07, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Which issue had the much-criticised bondage cover art? -- GWO

http://www.crashonline.org.uk/ has all the covers, I think. Barnabypage 13:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I think you might be confusing Crash with Your Sinclair's issue 21 poster of Game Over (computer game).--Frodet 19:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
There were actually a few controversial covers. Not just the "bondage" one (now featured in the article) but also the cover featuring a particularly bloody scene inspired by the Barbarian game. --Zagrebo 15:08, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

The magazine should be typeset as Crash and not CRASH.

This is the standard put forth by WP:TRADEMARK.
Simple example of this policy in action: Time (magazine).
--SeizureDog (talk) 20:07, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Should somebody upload the Crash Smash logo? We could use it in multiple places http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue52/Pages/Crash5200023.jpg  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.175.37.100 (talk) 21:18, 22 January 2012 (UTC) 

@Ritchie333: Here's some sources:--Coin945 (talk) 22:47, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Some info and a picture of the writing staff
History of Crash with Crash Magazine
Detailed history of every issue of Crash (Summary here)
Non-notable fansite with excerpts from newspapers
Info on Crash organising a tournament for a game
Info on Crash with Zzap history
Crash history
Some more info and contemporary images
Interview with Denise Bishop
Crash history
And what makes any of those reliable or third party? I've dropped in something from Retro Computing News, but ntnu.no is self-published (though an excellent source IMHO and one I have known about for about 20+ years), a wordpress.com obviously doesn't have any editorial standard, I've already added numerous citations to crashonline, what makes wizwords.net and nonowt.com reliable sources? Unless, of course you're arguing that our reliable sources policies are dumb, idiotic and counter-productive against experts, in which case bring it on - I just don't think enough people will agree with you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:51, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi @Ritchie333:, thank you for your reply. As someone who was in good faith trying to help you out, I deem your words unnecessarily hurtful and with a flair of ad homenem. Good luck with the article :)--Coin945 (talk) 21:15, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Do you ever have one of those days where nothing seems to go right? :-/ The point I was trying to make is I've tried most of those sources, but I just don't have the confidence that any of them will "stick" and not make people complain about them for spurious reasons. That was what I meant by "bring it on" ie: if we can get more people to inject some common sense into some of the sourcing guidelines instead of treating them like dogma, the project will be improved. I did keep your additions, I just copyedited them a bit. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:46, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Similarly, I also don't understand why you deleted one of the few decent sources (unaffiliated, secondary) as being a "dead link" when it is clearly available offline and through academic databases. The produced documentary is also a higher quality source than citing user-generated archives on the Internet and other pages with no editorial vetting. It is not some random YouTube video, but that should have been transparent from the comments I left below the citation. (not watching, please {{ping}} as needed)  czar 11:04, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
A few more bits and piece through my local state library database that you might find useful: --Coin945 (talk) 12:10, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

(Helped popularise famed pop parody Frank Sidebottom) "It's telling that the computer press, particularly the Spectrum magazine Crash, adored Frank. Home microcomputing, and the tools surrounding it, helped bring about one of the best-loved pop parodists of the past 30 years."European Union News
(This speaks to the company's editorial credentials) The Assistant Editor position got 12,000 pounds plus company penison contributions. Crash wanted someone with a year's experience and an excellent written communication in English. The Guardian
Academic Will Brooker. "I used to be good at games. I was good at the only Space Invaders machine in South London, in 1 979. I was the first kid to have a ZX Spectrum in my school, in 1982. 1 published in the national games magazine Crash when I was seventeen. But since the age of eighteen and my first degree, I've concentrated on cinema. " Cinema Journal
"Last November [in 2014], Retro Gamer's publisher, Imagine Publishing, snapped up the rights to the 1980s computer magazine, Crash, which billed itself as "the monthly Spectrum software review". The editor of Retro Gamer, Darran Jones, says articles about the Spectrum "always go down well"." The Independent
I am the author of the Crash article cited from Eurogamer and also the Match Day article cited above. I am also the owner of wizwords.net and can confirm all material there genuine. Graeme Jdanddiet (talk) 16:42, 11 January 2019 (UTC)