Talk:The Advocate (Tasmania)

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User:Iamalegend correctly states that The Advocate published an article mentioning Thomas Hatcher on October 8, 2004 (see [the article on their website]). However, Thomas Hatcher has been deemed non-notable (see VfD discussion) and the article deleted, so I hardly think he merits inclusion in this article. (I got the history from the paper's own website.) Pnot 22:00, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

User:Rick Ferguson I am the Promotions Manager of The Advocate Newspaper. I thank the original submission's author, it certainly motivated me to submit my first wikipedia contribution but the second two paragraphs of the original text contained errors:

It read: Published by the Harris Group (factually historically inaccurate also since 2008 the newspaper is now part of Fairfax Media ), The Advocate is read by 91% of Burnie residents (this figure changes with each Roy Morgan survey report). The newspaper was founded in 1891 as The Wellington Times (we were founded in 1890), renamed The Emu Bay Times in 1897, amalgamated with The North Western Advocate in 1899, and renamed The Advocate in 1916 (we were renamed The Advocate in 1918, though to be fair, we incorrectly published 1916 ourselves on our own website several years ago).

Critics of the newspaper sometimes warmly refer to it as "The Reprobate" (I've been working at this newspaper for 30 years and living in Burnie for my entire 46 and I've never heard The Advocate referred to as such - the newspaper is sometimes derogatorily called "The Aggravate" - as locally the pronunciation of our masthead rhymes with 'gate' not 'kit').

The remaining text was submitted by me. I hope these comments are not taken harshly as too critical, my appreciation to "Iamalegend" is genuine. RickiBrianFerguson (talk) 02:22, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]