Talk:Press pass

Press pass was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 7, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
October 8, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
March 24, 2024	Good article reassessment	Delisted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 7, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that press passes* grant the bearer access to crime scenes or other restricted areas unless it would interfere with the duties of emergency personnel?*
Current status: Delisted good article

refs 17, 19 and 20 are all bad — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.27.121.20 (talk) 11:18, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice article[edit]

Nice. I can't believe there wasn't an article about this before. Badagnani 03:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yeah, that surprized me too! --Xiaphias 05:11, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Successful "good article" nomination[edit]

This article passed good article nomination. This is how the article, as of May 8, 2007, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: Pass

2. Factually accurate?: Pass

3. Broad in coverage?: Pass

4. Neutral point of view?: Pass

5. Article stability? Pass

6. Images?: Pass

— The Sunshine Man 11:50, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps[edit]

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Lampman (talk) 21:04, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

[anonymous comment Jun-7-2009][edit]

This article is utter nonsense and should be pulled. Of COURSE editors and photographers can have press passes!

I am an editor and also work as a photographer, and have a UK press pass, so know what I am talking about. Unlike the author of this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.233.152 (talk) 11:54, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You must be referring to the section on police press passes: generally editors are NOT eligible for this type of pass, though of course it'll vary by jurisdiction. --Xiaphias (talk) 19:34, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Anonymous IPs reinserting fake sites into external links[edit]

A number of IPs have been repeatedly inserting/reverting links to sellers of fake press passes, specifically:

"International Association of Press Photographers" whose "address" is a virtual office in Miami (i.e. a facade.)
"United States Press Agency" exists just to sell "memberships" and press passes

Anon IPs:

108.52.102.16; 100.14.24.46; 100.14.24.205; 96.227.103.122; 173.59.13.41

-HidariMigi (talk) 03:22, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment[edit]

Press pass[edit]

The following discussion 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.

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Result: Delisted. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 16:31, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This 2007 GA uses many questionable sources and has many unsourced bits, which fails criteria 2 of the GACR. Spinixster (chat!) 01:35, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the article organization, I see some issues. The lead talks about three types of pass issuers: news orgs, event organizers, and government law-enforcement agencies. I would expand the last one to government agencies generally, since other parts of government also hold press conferences where you need a pass to get in. "The UK Press Card Authority" absolutely should not be a level-2 section (a globalize issue). And there seem to be many uncited bits of text. This will need some work to save. Sdkb ^talk 02:50, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delist - would need significant effort to get to GA standards. Happy to give some time if someone does step forward to work on the artile. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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