Talk:Wisconsin Educational Communications Board

Notability Penlite (talk) 14:30, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Notability

This topic definitely seems to me to fulfill the requirements of WP:NOTABILITY, as it covers a sizeable state government agency, the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board (ECB) with a vast influence far beyond its size -- literally reaching every corner of the state, overseeing ALL public telecommunications -- public television, public radio stations, weather radio stations, Emergency Alert and Amber Alert networks, and the state's educational programming online network -- throughout the entire state.

Few states have so vast and integrated a public telecommunications enterprise. I've worked in public broadcasting, in public safety, and in public education, in other states (not in Wisconsin), and have never seen anything else remotely like it in scale or reach.

It literally educates or alerts almost everyone in the entire state of Wisconsin, throughout their lifetime, from kindergarten through adulthood -- an educational and public service information impact, and cultural influence, that is probably unparalleled by any other single institution or organization in the state -- or within any other state. Extraordinary. Exceptionally "notabie."

Specifically worth noting is that the Wisconsin ECB essentially oversees many public TV and radio stations -- and Wikipedia routinely considers each of them to be sufficiently notable to merit articles about each one. So the parent entity that rules them all, across a whole state, should then, surely also, merit a Wikipedia article. Indeed, it would be negligent to not do so, IMHO.

~ Penlite (talk) 14:40, 15 September 2022 (UTC)