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The record label

Unfortunately, most of the links here are expecting it to be about Alternative Press the record label. Disambiguation? Morwen 17:12, May 22, 2004 (UTC)

Fair point. Meaning this should be listed under Alternative Media (which will make some of the language less clanky too)? So I'll put a stub under Alternative Press, relocate this article under Alternative Media and trawl the Alternative Press links to make them direct to Alternative Media instead if that is their intention. Make sense? Camipco 20:40, May 22, 2004

For the alternative press, I would suggest the use of the lowercase form alternative press? Morwen 20:43, May 22, 2004 (UTC)

Proposed changes

The broad category Alternative press should not have been moved to Alternative media. Perhaps we need a disambiguation page. There are dozens of books on the alternative press (print) around the world. How about:

I will wait a week or so for comments.--Cberlet 15:57, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I just ran into this page and will definitely look into over-hauling it. We should just redirect/merge this page to Alternative Press (magazine). I'm going to look into what I can do for this article. We definitely do need a disambig. page as well. -Myxomatosis 08:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Issues

should be listed with the most recent at the top?? is there a standard for this? 38.115.160.250 16:19, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removal

I removed the current staff section as it was unencyclopedic (look at Time (magazine) as an example. It was:

==Current staff== PRESIDENT/FOUNDER: Mike Shea

PUBLISHER: Norman Wonderly

GENERAL MANAGER: Katherine Poecze

PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR/PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: Norman Wonderly

EDITOR IN CHIEF: Jason Pettigrew

MANAGING EDITOR: Leslie Simon

MUSIC EDITOR: Scott Heisel

ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Tim Karan

COPY EDITOR: Rachel Lux

ART DIRECTOR: Christopher Benton

ART/ASSOCIATE/WEBMASTER: Robert Ortenzi

PRODUCTION MANAGER: John Millin

ART/PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Ted Barnes

ASSISTANT AD DIRECTOR/ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE (MUSIC): Dawn Marie Burns

MARKETING DIRECTOR/ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE (INDIE FASHION/APPAREL): Aaron Wilson

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE (ELECTRONICS/VIDEO GAMES): Jessie Kelkenberg

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE (FOOD/BEVERAGES/AUTO): Chris Helscher

SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER: Angela Hetrick

OFFICE ASSISTANT: Eddie Fleisher

I also removed the recent issue section as it was also unencyclopedic. It could easily go to perhaps List of issues of Alternative Press or something similar like Person of the Year.

==Recent issues==

205 (Aug 2005) - Transplants

206 (Sep 2005) - Underoath

207 (Oct 2005) - Fall Out Boy

208 (Nov 2005) - Coheed and Cambria

209 (Dec 2005) - The All-American Rejects

210 (Jan 2006) - Most Anticipated Albums Of 2006 - My Chemical Romance

211 (Feb 2006) - Avenged Sevenfold

212 (Mar 2006) - Taste Of Chaos

213.1 (Apr 2006) - 100 Bands You Need To Know In 2006 - From First to Last

213.2 (Apr 2006) - 100 Bands You Need To Know In 2006 - Panic! at the Disco

214 (May 2006) - Hawthorne Heights

215 (June 2006) - Taking Back Sunday

216 (July 2006) - AFI

217.1 (August 2006) Warped Tour (Anti-Flag, Against Me!, AFI, Rise Against)

217.2 (August 2006) Warped Tour (Armor for Sleep, The Academy Is..., Motion City Soundtrack, From First to Last)

218 (September 2006) Head Automatica

219 (October 2006) Underoath

220 (November 2006) Rise Against

Any questions/complains leave me a message, I will respond.Dark jedi requiem 02:58, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused. Is this only photocopies online, or can you actually have it sent to you once a month through the mail? Cuz, if it can be sent through the mail, I'd really like to get it. íslenskur fel lib ylur #12 _(samtal) 02:07, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

noncompliant

This Article was noncompliant with Wikipedia standards: it read like a first-person magazine article, was verbose, and, worse, an advertisement and copyright infringement of material off Alternative Press' website.

I've re-written it to meet Wikipedia standards. Note: all copyrighted material from Alternative Press magazine's website (www.altpress.com) has been removed and must not be pasted in this article per Wikipedia policy on using copyrighted material. JGHowes 19:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Undid redirect

Talk:Alternative press was a redirect to this talk page. There is now a separate and distinct alternative press article so I've removed the redirect. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Altpress first issue.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

merged alternative press to alternative media

And looking over the what-links-here for alt. press, nearly all of it came here, so I redirected that to this article (rather than go through the entire thing just to pipe alternative press to alternative press (magazine), ugh). With that said, if no one objects within the week (by Sep 23rd), then I think this should be moved over redirect, with a note on the top here that you may have been looking for alternative media (disambig seems a little too much for only 2 pages). Xavexgoem (talk) 08:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

bit the bullet and did it. No more parens for you! :-) Xavexgoem (talk) 08:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

Can some one show how this article is in anyway notable? Let alone provide the necessary references? --triwbe (talk) 09:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rationale for article move

This article was moved from Alternative Press to Alternative Press (music magazine) in order to free up the term "Alternative press" for a wider usage via a suitable disambiguation page at that location. Scott P. (talk) 05:39, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]