Talk:Soldier of Fortune (magazine)

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Contents 1 POV 2 NPOV compliance 3 Copyright and source 4 Company name in infobox? 5 Men for Hire=

[edit] POV

shouldn't these articles be written in a neutral way ?? -- 217.83.178.17 00:08, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Could you please be more specific? clarka 8 April 2004

[edit] NPOV compliance

This article is in serious need of a clean-up. I don't see too much activity here, so I am going to use edit summaries to explain my changes. If anyone has a problem with any of my edits, I'll be watching this talk page. Dick Clark 17:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Nice, an entire article with zero references. How about we delete it until someone states anything they can back-up?

[edit] Copyright and source

I stumbled across this article looking for something else. Just thought I'd point out at least one of the sources, specifically about the "rash of similar magazines" that SOF spawned in the 80s, came from an article about Ward Churchill's investigation of the magazine -- there is a copy at http://www.pirateballerina.com/files/soldier_of_fortune.htm

I think the wiki article could be cleaned up if some of the sources were researched and attributed. Phaid 18:16, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Company name in infobox?

I see that the infobox carries the name "Soldier of Fortune Inc." I have several copies, though I freely admit that none of them are recent, giving the company name as "Omega Group, Ltd." Has this changed, or is it an assumption on somebody's part, perhaps remembering the late 90s syndicated TV action series that the magazine had some sort of participation in (the first season title was Soldiers of Fortune, Inc.)? Ted Watson (talk) 20:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

The legal notices on the SOF website (http://www.sofmag.com/home/terms.html) refer as "SOLDIER OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE, INC." and made no reference to "Omega Group". However, it might have been an inaccurate corporate name setup on a legal boiler plate page. However, if there's a citation that the current publisher is Omega Group, then the Publisher line on the infobox should be changed. Dl2000 (talk) 22:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Men for Hire=

It might be of interest to note that SOF actually stopped publishing advertisiments for "Men for Hire" in the early/Mid-1980's, upsetting some of its readership.(83.13.39.98 (talk) 12:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC))