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Lists of radio stations

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I notice you are creating articles on which radio stations correspond to which frequencies. Are you aware that Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia, not an American encyclopedia? You might like to format your pages more like 97.3 FM, rather than using US state abbreviations. Somno (talk) 03:01, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Glad it helped, I just wanted to make sure you were aware of it before you created lots more articles! Thought it could save you and other editors some time if the articles mentioned the locations in full at the start. Welcome again, if you need help with anything let me know. :) Somno (talk) 03:10, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:RadioByFrequency

Template:RadioByFrequency has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Kesac (talk) 03:11, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Empty pages

Please stop creating articles with no content. Empty articles are by default deleted. Please spend time working on one article at a time. Corvus cornix_talk 03:33, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Lists of radio stations

Interesting project, but one thing to keep in mind please. On a couple of the completed pages that I've seen so far, you've only listing the base 'ABCD' call sign. Many of the FM stations have the '-FM' attached as part of their actual call signs, and the articles here for other stations may have either '(AM)' or '(FM)' attached for disambiguation. As a result, you're not actually linking to the articles for the stations themselves in a lot of cases - you're linking to the disambiguation page instead.

On the 90.3 FM page, see the resulting links to KBSU, KCSP, KGSP, and KMNE as just a few examples. Mlaffs (talk) 19:58, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of 1650 AM

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List of...

Ok ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 22:06, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Another note about the frequency pages

I've bumped into a couple of instances where you've linked the frequency in the infobox on radio station articles to the corresponding frequency disambiguation page that you've built (KBCU is one example, where I actually undid your edit before I realized this was part of a pattern). My two cents only, but this probably isn't a good idea. The purpose of a disambiguation page is to help reduce confusion and to make it easier for someone to find what they're looking for. In the case of the ones you've built, naturally, that would mean that someone who's looking for an article about a station but only knows that it broadcasts at 88.3 FM would be able to put that into the search, land on the 88.3 FM page, and figure out which station it is.

However, incoming links to disambiguation pages are actively discouraged, and are usually accidental. For example, someone writes an article and includes a link to WRNN, without either realizing or thinking about the fact that there are AM, FM, and TV stations using that same base call sign. Having a page at WRNN that links off to all three of the relevant articles allows a user to find the actual article that they need. However, the article should really be corrected so that it links directly to WRNN-FM, say, rather than to the disambiguation page. In fact, there's a whole WikiProject here devoted to cleaning up articles that link to disambiguation pages, so that they link to the correct article instead. On radio and TV station articles, I've actually been spending the last 6 or 7 weeks doing just that, and I've been able to clean up about 95% of those links, about 6-7000 edits.

If you really feel strongly about including these links, I'd suggest it'd be worth posing the question at the talk page for WP:WPRS and getting some other opinions, or at the talk page for WP:DAB. I suspect that I wouldn't be out of line with consensus. Mlaffs (talk) 05:38, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

How to move an article to a new title

Hi there. I noticed here that you'd performed a cut-and-paste move of article text to a new title. That's not how we rename articles on Wikipdia, because it does not preserve the contribution history of the article and so violates some terms of the GNU Free Documentation License which we use. Instead, we use the "move" tab at the top of an article to rename it, moving all the page history over to the new title in the process. If you can't seee a "move" tab at the top of articles, it's probably because your account is too new to have had this functionality enabled (this is an anti-vandalism strategy). In future, if you're not able to move a page yourself, you can ask someone else to do it for you at Wikipedia:Requested moves. I'll fix up any dodgy page moves you've done so far.

In any event, you've done good work creating these extensive pages of radio frequencies. Well done :) I'll see what I can do about adding some Australian etc. stations to the lists. If you need any more help or advice, please don't hesitate to ask me at my User talk page. - Mark 05:46, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Please stop

Please stop copying and pasting one page to another, you're losing the original page's edit history, and that's a violation of GFDL. Use the "Move this page" link. Corvus cornix_talk 00:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

It will take an admin to do the move now since you've got edits in the target article. List it at WP:RFPM. Corvus cornix_talk 00:33, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Linking frequencies

Please cease wikilinking every frequency in every article of the form List of radio stations in STATE. Firstly, you are overlinking. Secondly, major changes like these should be first discussed at WT:WPRS and a consensus reached before they are implemented. Thank you. JPG-GR (talk) 01:14, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd have to agree. As I've remarked both above and in the deletion discussion for the frequency template you created, you have set up each of these individual frequency pages as disambiguation pages. It's not a good idea to mass-create incoming links to disambiguation pages - in fact, just the opposite. There's an entire WikiProject devoted to ensuring that incoming links to disambiguation pages are corrected so that they point to the correct article instead. Any incoming links like these ones, or in the cases where you've linked the frequency on individual radio station articles as you did earlier, will certainly get unlinked by someone eventually. And since I've spent the last two months doing almost nothing but cleaning up radio and TV station call sign disambiguation pages, it'll probably be me. Not that I mind the boost to my edit count, but it's just not a good idea, and completely out of step with existing practice. Mlaffs (talk) 02:36, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

PLEASE STOP REDIRECTING TVXX TO CHANNEL XX

Please stop. YOU NEED TO STOP NOW!!!! I AM REVERTING ALL TVXX TO CHANNEL XX..

--RoomDownUnitStage (talk) 00:11, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I am now warning you. You have been reported to the Administrator/Notice board as abusive. You should stop making any further edits. --RoomDownUnitStage (talk) 01:01, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Please don't let posts like the one directly above get to ya. As a member of the Radio Station and Television Station WikiProjects we welcome your edits, but sometimes overlinking a page can make it confusing to others using it. If you have any questions about what to edit or how, please ask me, JPG-GR, or Mlaffs. There is alot to be done in both projects (especially WP:TVS at the moment) and we welcome all editors. So, don't let one bad experience get to ya. If you have any questions, ask any of us. Take Care...NeutralHomer • Talk 01:33, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll second that. It can be tough sledding here when you jump in with both feet like you did. I haven't even been here that long — I'm still figuring things out. There are lots of others that can help you with any questions as well. Best advice that I can give you is that small, incremental change is the best approach and, if you're thinking of anything at all that seems like it might be a radical idea, throw it up on a talk page somewhere and see what other people think. It's all about consensus. Also, keep in mind that any of us who've left comments for you aren't critiquing you, or at least shouldn't be - it's the edits we're seeing or the approach you're taking. We're just looking to engage in some discussion. Mlaffs (talk) 02:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

TV18 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect TV18. Since you had some involvement with the TV18 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Cnilep (talk) 01:35, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

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