Talk:The Pitt News

message: We definitely need some information about Pitt News' role in college journalism as a defender of the First Amendment.  There's the Liquor Control Board thing, the time the paper published an article that Duquesne would not let its student paper run, and there's the time that we caught the Pitt Police filing a false police report after an officer stole ... well my notes. (I'm not sure I should be the one to add it, but it is an important part of the paper's role on campus. --Chris Griswold 12:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: First Amendment

message: Most of the recent additions to these sections are simply not notable. Ideally, every one of these people should have an article on Wikipedia, or at least be notable enough to have one. Notability guidelines for Wikipedia ask, among other things, that the person is the subject of one or more non-trivial works. That means no press releases, for instance. 
Simply being an intern, staff writer, copy editor at a newspaper; being editor of a relatively small newspaper; assisting a golfer; working at a library; teaching at a school in South Korea; working for NOW+ is not enough to justify inclusion. The award-winners, however, possibly could have their own section. Not sure collegiate awards satisfy notability, but a list of alumni who have won writing awards might be appropriate to this article.
Regardless, everything needs a citation. This article has been tagged as being unreferenced since July, and so unreferenced material should be removed, rather than added. --Superburgh 00:49, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added citations for the five notable alumni previously listed, and I removed some excess information about Joe Zeff.  Were we to remove Zeff and Michael Clinton, since neither has a Wikipedia article, that would leave 3 people, and then I don't think the Notable Alumni section is merited.  But we could write a brief paragraph about the 3, and prose might be better anyway.  Thoughts? I might volunteer to do this now. --Blicarea (talk) 07:55, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just because they don't have their own Wikipedia articles, does not mean they have to be eliminated from a list of notable alumni. Plenty of notable people do not yet have a Wikipedia article. BTW, good job on upgrading The Pitt News article. CrazyPaco (talk) 21:36, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! And thanks for inviting me to join the WikiProject! --Blicarea (talk) 22:24, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alumni - notability and lack of references 

message: I don't have any source, other than to say that I read the actual article, and then I read the paper's apologies in later issues. Of course my memory does not meet wikipedia's standards, but if anyone comes across anything, please post it here. I imagine that at some time, some other editors who come across this talk page may remember the incident, and if they could narrow it down to a more specific time period, perhaps the Pitt News archives could be searched for the issues where the apologies took place. I am not asking anyone to take my word blindly - I understand that verification is needed. 54mmkds (talk) 01:53, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the early 1990s, the Pitt News published the name of a rape victim without her permission.