Template:Did you know nominations/The Transactor

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 14:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

The Transactor

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• ... that The Transactor was an early computer magazine noted for its coverage of Commodore 8-bit hardware hacking?

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Created by Psychonaut (talk). Self nominated at 13:48, 29 December 2014 (UTC).

• Nominated four days after creation, and is about 1700 bytes, satisfying date and length criteria. QPQ completed. There are a few issues to resolve. First, the final paragraph has no citations (see Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines, rule D2). Second, a claim is made that The Transactor "...went out of business and ceased publication in August 1989", but the source does not state a date; the "Start Address" ref states July 1987 (you wrote May 1987 in this article) for the newsstand version. (Also, none of the sources specifically state "8-bit", though this is acceptable given Commodore's product lineup and the magazine's timeline.) One issue not necessary to resolve for DYK but still desired: which source claims Canadian Micro Distributors published the magazine until April 1983? Image in article is fair use and appropriately documented for such usage. Overall, not much to fix. Mindmatrix 02:43, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks for catching the error about the sources for the circulation figures; I've fixed these. Regarding your remaining issues, which all have to do with the information on publication dates, publishers, and authors/editors, these details are not normally referenced for our articles on books and periodicals, since they are trivially verifiable, without any original research, from examining the cover page or masthead of the work. (This is covered by the second paragraph of Wikipedia:Original research policy and by the WP:ABOUTSELF section of the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy.) —Psychonaut (talk) 12:52, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
    • Alright, I'll accept that. The new section you introduced has one minor issue - the "News BRK" ref you provided (#10) doesn't mention "The Best of the Transactor Volume 1" etc, only "The Complete Commodore Inner Space Anthology". It's not clear from the text whether the latter is the collection of Transactor anthologies, or the supplied ref is the incorrect one. I'm assuming the former, but I'd prefer verification for this. Mindmatrix 17:59, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
      • Another typo, I'm afraid—the reference should have been to the issue from Vol. 5, not Vol. 6. I have fixed this now. You'll see on the first page of the cited article a section titled "Best of the Transactor Volume 3 SOLD OUT!" which mentions the Best of volumes. —Psychonaut (talk) 18:50, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
• OK. Good to go. (Though I believe the first volume did not use the numeral '1' in its title.) Mindmatrix 18:41, 4 January 2015 (UTC)