Talk:Article (publishing)

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In working on this entry, I deleted nothing that was already there and added on to make it more complete. I'm sure more needs to be added, but I mainly wanted to include information on feature articles, since it already had material on news articles. I also played with formatting. I hope it is easier to read. Mazeface 21:15, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

It's hard to tell, but I believe you have deleted some things. Could you recheck?

Also, I believe your {{cite book}} is not being used correctly. Could you check the formatting?

Finally, it would probably be better to put a {{inuse}} in the article to reflect that you're actively editing it.

— Arthur Rubin | (talk) 21:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I wrote this before I saw the invitation.  :) I'll look at it more closely, if I have the time. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 21:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Got the {{cite book}} templates fixed. Look closely at the diffs to see what I did (please ignore the incorrect intermmediate versions). — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 21:58, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Does an article have to be a section of a larger written work or could it be complete in its own right?

Yes Shaaibumusa12 (talk) 14:32, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Leads versus introduction

Am I not correct in saying that an article doesn't always have a lead, but it nearly always has an introduction; is it not the case that a lead is a particular sort of introduction that is restricted to a few sentences or a paragraph in length?- (User) WolfKeeper (Talk) 20:42, 8 February 2008 (UTA news article is an article published in a print or Internet news medium such as a newspaper, newsletter, news magazine, news-oriented website, or article directory that discusses current or recent news of either general interest (i.e. daily newspapers) or on a specific topic (i.e. political or trade news magazines, club newsletters, or technology news websites).

A news article can include accounts of eye witnesses to the happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be used to focus the reader’s attention on a particular (or main) part of the article. The writer can also give facts and detailed information following answers to general questions like who, what, when, where, why and how.

Quoted references can also be helpful. References to people can also be made through written accounts of interviews and debates confirming the factuality of the writer’s information and the reliability of his source. The writer can use redirection to ensure that the reader keeps reading the article and to draw her attention to other articles. For example, phrases like "Continued on page 3” redirect the reader to a page where the article is continued.

While a good conclusion is an important ingredient for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline environment means that copy editing often takes the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary point in the story corresponding to the dictates of available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid style, with all the most important information in the first paragraph or two. If less vital details are pushed towards the end of the story, the potentially destructive impact of draconian copy editing will be minimized.

I'm adding "Subheading and Section Header" to the main page. (Update: It was deleted.)

I'm adding "Subheading and Section Header" to the main page. I love Wikipedia and when Wikipedia pages are not complete, it is shameful. If someone doesn't like my edit, fine. Then fix it and make it better. --MikeWest (talk) 18:20, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

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I added a very good addition to the "Article (publishing)" Wikipedia page but it was swiftly deleted because apparently, some Wikipedia editors love to make Wikipedia less useful to it's users around the world. Here below, is what I had added but was taken out. (And I've added a few extra words to make it even better.)

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Subheading and Section Headers

Some articles will have several bold words at the beginning of multiple paragraphs and these bold words are called subheadings or section headers. Subheadings not only help the reader to quickly glance through an article and get an idea of what the article is about, but subheadings also simply help the reader, to read a long article. If a long article has no subheadings, it can be tedious for the reader, to read the article because multiple paragraphs, one after the other, can make it difficult to read. That is, subheadings, for people like myself (and others), make a long article more manageable to read. In fact, the words, Headline, Byline, Lead, Body or running text, Subheadings or Section headers and Conclusion on the main "Article (publishing)" Wikipedia page are all subheadings of this Wikipedia web page.

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I hope this helps some writers around the world. I know that after a 15 to 25 minute Google search to figure out the name, subheading, that it is very important that this Wikipedia page should list that "subheadings," can be part of any article. If this Wikipedia page already had "Subheading" as part of this Wikipedia page, I would not have had wasted another 1/2 hour to an hour, trying to get the main "Article" Wikipedia page revised. Of course, due to the short sightedness of some of the staff of Wikipedia and to making it worse for Wikipedia users, this revision did not take place.

--MikeWest (talk) 01:26, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Electronic article into Article (publishing)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

No opposition to merge. Felix QW (talk) 20:04, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

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most articles are "electronic" or digital nowadays fgnievinski (talk) 14:12, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.