Talk:Newspaper

Cancelling Newspaper Delivery?
The page tells that in TS3 I can cancel the newspaper delivery by calling services. However, I can't find such an option in the game. I tried using the cellphone, and there's adoption, pizza delivery, cleaner, nanny, police, lackey and fire service, but no option for cancelling the newspaper delivery. Am I missing something? - ZuTheSkunk 23:14, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

I have a question about Check Weekly Events
Hi, is there a particular part of the week in Sims 3, that the Check Weekly Events are unavalible between either Wednesday or Thursday, or is this some kind of glitch, cause whenever I am like Wed or Thurs in the game, the Check Weekly Events is not in the paper, and I aks is this a glitch or are the weekly events only availiable when needed in the game? Nikolai Banks (talk) 14:56, March 30, 2014 (UTC)
 * I've never heard such issue before. Probably because there's just no event in the week starting on those days in particular?  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  16:54, April 1, 2014 (UTC)

Mmm so you only get Weekly Events during the first few days of the week and on the weekends? What days do Weekly Events show? I am just curious. Nikolai Banks (talk) 18:54, April 1, 2014 (UTC)
 * Eh, no. That was just a guess. I meant probably there won't be any events for the whole week, which is why there was no interaction to read the weekly event. SimFest is supposed to be held every week, but I'm just not sure.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  07:51, April 5, 2014 (UTC)

Mention that it's not part of TS4?
I've been reverted twice, so rather than revert again I feel we should discuss this.

It is not the normal procedure to mention when features aren't present, but rather to mention when they are (unless the absence is notable). You don't see anything on the page about the Weather, for instance, saying that it's not in TS4. There's nothing on pet clarifying that it's not present in TS4 either.

Doesn't listing out all the games where a feature is present by default also show where the feature isn't present? I think it's more than enough to state the games where newspapers appear; we don't need to explicitly state all the games where newspapers don't appear, it's already implied. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 20:29, October 13, 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't really see the point in stating which features are not in the game. If a feature isn't in the game, then it should be left out of the article as it would indicate it isn't featured in the current game. Like LiR stated, it is already implied in the article that it isn't featured in the game if there is nothing about it in the article. Beds (talk - blog ) 21:02, October 13, 2014 (UTC)


 * I have to agree for the reasons mentioned above. While I can understand the reason to make it "clear" that TS4 doesn't have newspaper, LiR is right that it would become tedious to do the same for every other feature that TS4 doesn't have -- especially when it is likely that the features will be added in future EP and patches. -- Icemandeaf (talk) 21:10, October 13, 2014 (UTC)


 * Per all of the above, especially with LiR's statement on "notable absences", as he said on #wikia-sims...

[17:00:56]  the only time I feel it's warranted is if the fact that it's absent is particularly noteworthy [17:01:19]  like with swimming pools. there was a huge backlash regarding the feature being absent, so it makes sense to mention the absence


 * There's no harm in leaving "This object does not appear in The Sims 4" out, because unless it was a notable removal, nobody cares if the Skydiving Simulator or Aquatic Playhouse was left out. --I am  k6ka  Talk to me!   See what I have done  21:20, October 13, 2014 (UTC)


 * I think it comes up to notability, which means whether or not the series is important enough to mention (e.g. console versions aren't mentioned because they're not important enough?) and whether or not the topic is important enough (like k6ka said). But I think it's kind of subjective, and it's more like a matter of preferences. I agree that mentioning every single version of the game (e.g. Stories series, Medieval series, console series) is a pretty tedious work to do. IMO however, the absence of newspaper is notable in TS4, as well as the absence of home phones and cars for example. The absence of specific objects like k6ka said isn't so important, people would normally think.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  01:47, October 14, 2014 (UTC)
 * If we're talking specifically about whether its absence in TS4 is notable, then I still don't think it should be mentioned because its absence isn't notable. Ever since TS2 the role of the newspaper has been diminished (which is on par with the decreased prominence of real-life newspapers). In TS3 you could stop delivery on the newspaper, even. Virtually everything that the newspaper was used for can now be done by other objects, so it seems only natural that the item would be removed, as with home phones (if we had an article specifically about home phones, which we don't). Additionally, I have heard of no one in the fan community even care that the paper is removed, unlike pools, toddlers, or cars. Its absence in TS4 really isn't noteworthy. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 01:54, October 14, 2014 (UTC)
 * It's interesting that we're talking about this now: see here. Ѧüя◎ґ (talk) 02:59, October 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * Even if the absence of newspaper doesn't cause an uproar like the absence of pool, I don't think it's completely not notable. We can't really define how notable a notability is (not to be confused with our notability policy), so I still think whether to mention it or not is based on anyone's preferences. Besides, mentioning or not mentioning it isn't against any rules. It's just a matter of consistency, and so far we've never been consistent about this particular topic, so there's not really any definite solution to this.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  12:25, October 15, 2014 (UTC)