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Requested move 12 May 2018

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 18:23, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Current Affairs (magazine) → Current Affairs – Sufficiently precise without parenthetical per WP:DIFFCAPS. Sangdeboeuf (talk) 18:28, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:29, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Possible sources

(warning: mostly about Robinson, rather than CA. The best for CA content by far is the Daily Beast article.)

Minor:

Opinion:https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-immorality-of-nathan-robinsons-far-left-american-revolution

Jlevi (talk) 10:42, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Progressive or Socialist?

I think it would be more accurate in the lede to describe Current Affairs as a socialist magazine. Considering how its editor-in-chief has written a book titled "Why you should be a socialist". It has a whole online section titled "socialism" with lots of pro- articles.[1] It seems that it would be more in spirit of the magazine to align it to socialism than, say, the progressivism of FDR or Teddy Roosevelt? - Meangreenbeanmachine (talk) 14:45, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality tag added

Regarding the wording of the introduction of the article and the innacurate labeling of the magazine as progressive rather than socialist the article has been tagged as possible non-neutral in nature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.43.123.79 (talk) 21:44, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. Surprisingly, sources seem to describe it mostly as "left-leaning"[1], "progressive"[2], or "leftist independent media"[3]. If you want to change that, you'll need to find reliable sources describing it otherwise. (Also just not a big enough issue to require a page tag--you could alternatively just use the template POV-inline.[neutrality is disputed]) Jlevi (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://www.currentaffairs.org/category/socialism

Very few high quality sources on this page

Unfortunately, very little of the page's current content is backed by RSs; of the page's 33 footnotes, 16 refer to a Current Affairs article or webpage, two to tweets, two to Googledocs, and one to Nathan J. Robinson's personal page at Harvard. Very few of these, if any, are acceptable WP:SECONDARY. The effect is to make the page seem like a promotional (on that score, perhaps it is worth double checking that no editors have a COI to declare), and that is not appropriate.

It seems to me that one could proceed via one of three routes. The most extreme would be to say that if an insufficient number of RSs can be found then the topic of the page is not notable and the page should be deleted; one could also suggest that better sources be found to support the existing content, or, third, that portions of the article be eliminated if no suitable RS exists. For my part, I do think CA is notable and deserves a Wikipedia page, and I'd opt for some blend of the second and third routes. I imagine other editors here will have views, and hopefully some of them can find suitable sources (I have tried to add one or two just now). If I don't hear back from anyone in the next week or so and am not able to find much more myself, I will either add an appropriate tag to the page or start making the necessary deletions - but I hope we can work together to keep a page that is both content-rich and also meets the minimum Wikiquality threshold. Publius In The 21st Century (talk) 20:45, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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