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:::::What advantage would this have over just having separate articles for each publication? Lumping stuff together doesn't really improve notability (because now you have to find sources about the whole collection, not necessarily easier than finding sources about the individual members) and doesn't help readers find information about individual publications (for instance when following links to those publications from references on other articles). So who benefits from it? —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 00:15, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
:::::::Benefit is that the publications that don't meet WP:N would have a place to have basic info. I think that's an improvement. [[User:Hobit|Hobit]] ([[User talk:Hobit|talk]]) 15:33, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
::::::I do think it's much easier to show notability for the collection; in searching for sources discussing CG&A, I found several nice sources discussing e.g. the history of IEEE computer graphics publications, or the history of IEEE magazines. All the big publishers seem to attract coverage in a way that individual journals rarely do. Anyway, it benefits readers if it prevents fragmentation of information and provides context on under-covered (aka non-notable) topics, as Hobit says. But benefit is the crux of the issue, right? There are lots of non-notable topics that would benefit readers if we covered them in stand-alone articles, cf. the on-going debates about sport bios, or [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Google Chrome version history (2nd nomination)|Google Chrome version history]], etc. I think Wikipedia is probably worse if we allowed thousands of non-notable trade publications to put up a free marketing page, and I think Wikipedia is probably better if we allowed thousands of non-notable academic publications to put up a free marketing page. It's not a surprise I'm biased in favor of the academic journals and think they're useful, but until we have a policy that reflects a consensus beyond my personal biases in favor of academics, I'm reticent to explicitly endorse it. [[User:Suriname0|Suriname0]] ([[User talk:Suriname0|talk]]) 16:45, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
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