Talk:WAPT

GA Review

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Reviewer: Premeditated Chaos (talk · contribs) 21:54, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Dibsing ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:54, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

• No complaints until Horrible Movie. I'm not sure it's DUE, it feels more like local trivia than encyclopedic history. Neither the program, the performer, nor the character are independently notable, and it's backed by only a local source. It also feels weirdly out of place in between ownership details.
  • Decided to excise that information.
• "promising improvements in the news department" - do we know what they were going to improve? Do we know what was lacking?
• Do we know why ABC was so weird about NYPD Blue?
  • Frankly, that's beyond the scope of this article beyond the rewording I just did. It was a racy show for network TV at the time, which was part of the novelty but triggered a revolt among ABC affiliates, mostly in smaller and Southern markets. We have a level-2 header in the article on Blue. It does turn up as a fact sometimes in ABC affiliate articles. When I did WBKO, another station that initially refused, I was able to write about the general manager going on the syndicated Donahue talk show to defend his position.
• I notice the section "Price and Northstar Television Group ownership" doesn't actually mention Northstar in the body. Then, the opening of the next section discusses "three of the four Northstar stations" without giving any context to what Northstar is
  • Welp, that's a big old omission. And the reference is right there, too. Fixed!
• The Borat article has a number of free-license photos of Baron Cohen in character as Borat, if that's of interest to you for this article :P
  • Added one, merely because it helps to have images.
• When did Arthur say she resigned? Before or after the letter to Newsweek?
  • Before.
• No history from 2005-2023?
  • What tends to happen is that these articles have less general history and more news history after a certain point. When a station hasn't been sold, moved, or had much going on besides changes in the news department, this becomes common. It gives you an idea of how much local news is the local station. Especially in a mid-market like Jackson (and a mid-market that is sliding down the ranks in population). It also is, frankly, a function of reduced coverage of broadcast media in the local media.
• Do we know why Bell-Flynt and Adams got fired? (And should Flynt not be Bell-Flynt later in the sentence?)
  • Presumably because of the change in ownership.
• Sourcing is good - newspapers as always. No CV/close para issues noted and spot checks located no issues.
• Images are either free or appropriately NFCC

@Premeditated Chaos: Fixed copy. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 07:08, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

That's it. Mostly some questions to consider, not much to complain about. Cheers. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:30, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Responses are satisfactory, I made one more small change re: the resignation but otherwise this is a pass. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:38, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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