Talk:The Beast (newspaper)

message: This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. Owen× ☎ 22:58, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles for Deletion debate

message: Okay, I did a major edit- the last version of the article was very fan-pagey and lacked neutrality. Moreover, the frequent "humorous" asides were encyclopedic and made it difficult to tell facts from fiction.  That said, the page still needs major work in producing sources.  Moreover, it's not entirely clear that everything on the page is factual. ChrisStansfield 05:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing and fact checking 

message: There was an alternative weekly in Buffalo called Buffalo Beat which was ok but to some degree laughed at, and not all that successful. About a year before the Beast started, it was sold to a glitzy upscale-advertising-as-content company that publishes the  inane conservo-sumer-yuppie Buffalo Spree, and was moved out of Buffalo into Amherst (a.k.a. hell). It is no longer published.
The "Buffalo Beast" came along around that time, and the name was in part a snide reference to that other paper.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.243.139.48 (talk) 19:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buffalo Beat 

message: It's a week into January of 2008 and their website still doesn't have their new issue posted, which is out of character.  Especially at the top of the year, when they post their "50 Most Loathsome People" list.  Usually they have that up on New Year's Eve.  Anyone know what their financial situation is?  Their current opening page asks for donations.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.105.136.154 (talk) 22:47, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of business? 

message: I took out almost all the content of the article because none of it was sourced and the sourcing issue had been tagged since 2008. At the same time, I added a stub template, but I removed the other templates (references, etc.) because in light of the stub, they no longer made sense. Another editor - no doubt well-intentioned - put in references and notability templates. I'm going to remove them, although the editor can disagree with me here, because they are irrelevant for an article that has an infobox and one line of text, and because they are misleading as one might mistakenly think the references issue has existed only since this month.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:24, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article now a stub 

message: I note that at the very bottom of The Beast's homepage, the "About Us" section has been updated:
The BEAST was founded in 2002 by Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, his eXile comrade Kevin McElwee and Buffalo attorney Paul Fallon, as a free biweekly newspaper. In 2007, under the leadership of its longest-serving editor, Allan Uthman, The BEAST changed to a pay/monthly format, distributed nationally, with international subscriptions. In late 2009, The BEAST ceased its print edition and is now billed as "The World's Only Website." The current editor is Ian Murphy.
I am going to incorporate that info into the article. -- Limulus (talk) 23:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated "About Us"