There is one and only one way to know you’ve hit it big, and, guess what, The Temple News has done it. TTN has its own Wikipedia page. Okay, seriously, that alone isn’t a big deal because, at times, there have been wiki pages that have assured readers that there were 15 planets in the solar system and John Kopp, TTN’s own Sports Editor, was one of them. But, it looks like wiki founder Jimmy Wales and his little minions won’t delete this one. (We’re still sore about that whole John Kopp thing).
Finally the history of The Temple News can be edited by strangers, too!
A quick pan for other Big 5 and Philly area colleges makes us feel sorta special, too. While the Daily Pennsylvanian and The Villanovan have Wikipedia pages, The Triangle, of Drexel, The Hawk, of St. Joe’s, The Loquitur, of Cabrini, and The Text, of Philly University, don’t. The University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt News and Penn State’s Daily Collegian have fine wiki pages, but, fittingly, The Collegian of La Salle has only a stub. After all, in the big picture, La Salle is just a stub, right?
In the professional ranks – though it was probably done by an unpaid intern – the Inquirer has a fine Wikipedia presence. This comes in contrast with the Daily News wiki page that is small enough to be topped by The Philadelphia Bulletin, which, if I didn’t know differently, I would assume was still dead.
Fans of The Metro will be satisfied to know that its wiki page is short (and comes with dead ledes, lame commentary and sudoku).
I can only assume the wiki page for Philadelphia magazine was done by one of its pretentious staff members considering half of it is spent explaining the prefered capitalization for its name.
The pages for Philadelphia Weekly and City Paper both sound like they were written by someone without any idea how to write a wiki, as they include nothing more than their first page table of contents. This, of course, might seem particularly ironic considering these two alt-weeklies fill most of their pages with criticisms of all other media for being old and out-of-touch.
The Philadelphia Tribune is apparently the La Salle of the commercial papers, as it has just 200 words. Considering it is the oldest black newspaper in the country (yet still appears to be copy edited by the blind), you can officially put the Tribune on the enormous list of really old stuff Philadelphia has that no one cares about.
The Philadelphia Business Journal doesn’t even have a page, which might be because the 1997 breaking news of the profitabilty of the internet hasn’t been reported there yet.
