Talk:WIAT

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material

Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:

1. WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information." As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.
2. As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
3. WP:Source list tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
4. Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 22:10, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Soul of the South network?

What happened to the Soul of the South Network launching Memorial Day 2012 on 42.2? Did this happen or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.88.178.21 (talk) 09:24, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Suggested edits to WIAT page

WIAT is launching their new on-air look on Saturday, April 21, 2018. This graphics and logo transition will be in full effect Monday, April 23, 2018. Previously, their on-air identity was a red, grey and black WIAT CBS 42 logo. The digital presence has already transitioned away from WIAT, beginning with the url change from wiat.com back to cbs42.com in March of 2018. After April 23, the station will present on-air and online as CBS 42, with a blue and white CBS 42 logo replacing the red. All visual representation of WIAT will end except for in the standard AP style on digital news articles. A new graphics package featuring bright hues of blue and yellow gold will replace the red, grey and occasional blue previously seen on air. The new official logo for the station in digital format can be found here: https://media.wiat.com/nxs-wiattv-media-us-east-1/photo/2018/04/16/CBS-42_1_color_1523874126780_39967311_ver1.0.png. Additional suggested edits regarding mission and programming: CBS 42's mission is to provide Local Coverage You Can Count On through community focused programs, including the CBS 42 Morning News with Art Franklin every weekday from 4:30 - 7 a.m., the CBS 42 News at Noon each weekday, and the CBS 42 News and 5, 6 and 10. Weekend programming includes the CBS 42 Morning Weekend News, the CBS 42 Evening Weekend News, and CBS 42 Sports Sunday. Suggested edit by HaleyTownsend (talk) 03:02, 20 April 2018 (UTC)HaleyTownsend a paid employee of Nexstar Media Group, Digital Executive Producer of CBS 42 since 2016

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GA Review

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Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 04:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Premeditated Chaos (talk · contribs) 23:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Parking myself on this. Should be within 2 weeks. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

• UHF/VHF I think we need context for these abbreviations at first instance in the lead too
• style nitpick, but two you have two successive sentences in the lead starting with "The station"
• "while still in fourth place" - lead earlier indicated they were in third?
• "consolidation which the Balaban application, which was approved." - I corrected to "with the Balaban" as I assumed this was a typo
• "produced a number of local programs; it produced a public affairs" - repetition of "produced" here
• Since EWTN stands for something, can we get the full name?
• "Few people watched..." this sentence runs on a bit, with the colon and the semi-colon
• "the newscast was replaced with newsbreaks" - for those of us who don't know the difference, could there be a touch of context?
• Earlier it's Park Broadcasting, but later it's Park Communications - maybe note the name change
  • Added a footnote — they changed the corporate name in 1983, it seems.
• Why not link New World Communications, Citicasters, Argyle Television?
  • Responding to explain why I did not do the latter. The stations involved in New World were the first Argyle. The same investors then started Argyle Television Holdings II, which merged with Hearst in 1997 to form Hearst-Argyle Television (now Hearst Television), which is Argyle's redirect target. No article covers Argyle I, and Hearst has nothing to do with the Argyle I stations. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:34, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
• The "It's About Time" section is fairly lengthy, could be subsectioned
• "and proceeded two months later to fire" could probably be simplified to "and two months later fired" (side note - do we know why he got canned? anything special?)
• "The station's employees expected something to happen. For example, lead weeknight anchorman Chris Schauble told the Birmingham Post-Herald that he had known as early as Thanksgiving that he was going to be fired. However, many of them did not know exactly what would take place until the firings were announced." I think this could be reordered/reworded a bit. Suggest something like "The station's employees had expected Land to make significant changes. Most had not expected to lose their jobs, although lead weeknight anchorman Chris Schauble told the Birmingham Post-Herald that he had known as early as Thanksgiving that he was going to be fired."
• "42 Daily News represented an immediate improvement over its predecessor" - I would clarify that this refers to an improvement in audience figures
• Images correctly licensed, no other policy issues, spot checks of available sources checked out

The notes above are largely style suggestions/FAC-level nitpickery. There's nothing that gets in the way of this meeting the GA criteria even if none are implemented, so I will close this as as pass with recommendations. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 17:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 02:10, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that an Alabama TV station fired nearly its entire news staff and replaced its newscasts with a countdown clock for more than a month? Source: https://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=2317
  • ALT1: ... that the manager of an Alabama TV station expected a countdown clock to get more viewers than his newscasts did? Source: Hubbard, Russell (December 31, 1997). "Time for change: Countdown clock subs for 42 news". The Birmingham News. pp. 1A, 7A.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Yang Jingru (speed skater)

Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 694 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:21, 26 June 2024 (UTC).

• Verified that the article is long enough, that there are no plagiarism concerns through the Copyvios tool and spotchecking, and that the hook is sourced in the article. Cunard (talk) 11:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Both hooks are verified. Cunard (talk) 11:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)