User talk:Sammi Brie

OpenHistoricalMap

Hi, I wanted to belatedly thank you for all the improvements you made to WSTR-TV and other Cincinnati-area articles. Many of these station articles have suffered from poorly informed speculation, so I really appreciate the work you've done to get the citations in order.

Incidentally, I've started to map some of these stations' studios and towers in OpenHistoricalMap, which would eventually make it easier to put early station histories in context. For example, until I mapped the past and current studios of WXIX-TV, I hadn't realized the station had moved across town and back to essentially the same block that it started on. For WBQC-LD, plotting the signal range around its old location would help to illustrate why cable companies found it so easy to ignore them for so long. There are some technical hurdles for embedding OHM content into Wikipedia articles like the existing OSM maps, but the main obstacle is the lack of data.

Please let me know if I can help with any questions you have about OHM, and thanks again!

 – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 03:19, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

@Mxn I had not heard of OHM before, so this is cool. I can top your second example—we can get contour maps for stations (something I've pioneered in the last year), and there are articles that use them (e.g. Nebraska Television Network, New Country Y-107). Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:48, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Unrelated note: My public broadcasting mind, thought the Nebraska Television Network was named something else, even though, I think having a contour map for Nebraska Public Media's Television stations would be cool as well as helpful. mer764KCTV^(Talk) 19:52, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

KBHK

The correct procedure for dealing with questionably sourced claims is to add a "possibly contains original research" tag at the top of the article or "citation needed" tags after the individual disputed claims, and then give interested readers a few weeks to accumulate sources. Correct procedure is NOT to indiscriminately delete half of the article! 98.234.13.133 (talk) 01:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I'll first note that I did not handle all of the deletions, but I'll also note this. KPYX is one of about 150 pages I have that has been written to the Good article criteria with a view to being nominated for GA later, in addition to 113 GAs that I already have. Most are TV stations. It'll be very difficult for me to do that with as much unreferenced, or unreferenceable to anything but a schedule, material as was added in those edits.

I've spent a lot of time lately excising cruft from our coverage of TV stations, in some cases reducing the article text size by 60 percent or more. That sometimes means that material is removed because a reliable source cannot support it. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Kansas City TV

Hello Sammi. I really loved the improvements you made for KCTV Channel 5, KSHB-TV Channel 41, KSMO-TV Channel 62, and KCPT Channel 19. However, I think it'll might be cool working on or improving the articles for KMBC-TV Channel 9 and WDAF-TV Channel 4. KMCI Channel 38 and KCWE Channel 29 might be more difficult since those are some new TV stations in KC terms. Keep up the good work. mer764KCTV^(Talk) 02:34, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

@Mer764Wiki I've done KMCI, but it's not the most interesting station. KCWE is a prime candidate for a de-sludge a la my recent KAUT-TV work (the same editor left extra-dense material in both). I have a good amount of KC material from doing 5, 19, 41, and 62...and the market is frankly a goldmine of content. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I didn't know you already did KMCI. Next step is a de-sludge for KCWE, and potentially Fox 4 KC, and KMBC 9. mer764KCTV^(Talk) 04:16, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Unrelated note, KCPT is still technically in the GAN phase of the article. mer764KCTV5^(Talk) 13:37, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of KIDY

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Thank you

		The Completionist Barnstar
		For all of your hard work over the years to truly raise the standards on both WP:WPRS and WP:TVS by leaps and bounds, first with an amazing amount of DYKs, then dozens of GAs and several FAs. It has been rewarding being your 🦝 partner-in-crime on multiple tag-team efforts. Your encouragement of me to go beyond my comfort zone and work on my own articles has meant an awful lot. Nathan Obral • he/him • t • c • 15:38, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm lucky to have a partner-in-crime like you, @Nathan Obral. You've meant an awful lot to me and made me a better editor. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 19:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

DYK for KOVR

On 20 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KOVR, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the founder of a California TV station opted not to name it for himself because the call sign would have sounded like "cough"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KOVR. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KOVR), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Precious

Four years!

Thank you for the steady flow of interesting stations information! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:25, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words, @Gerda Arendt. It's been a tough last week for a number of us on the project. By the way, this is my 60th consecutive month with a DYK. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:59, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Congratulations to that series! I never looked at it like that, but think I might join the club, even last year when I was determined to drop out completely. Tough, yes. Two days ago, I wrote that I remembered four subjects on the Main page and Vami.

The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago).

Yesterday I learned that a friend suddenly died; we both belonged to a group that traveled once a year for decades, and I remember her vivid talk last summer, same voice and sparkle as when we met. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

more music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:49, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

February 2024

Speaking of WAXC-LD, that article could use some work. Too bad there isn't much to go by on Newspapers.com; the Alexander City paper only goes to 1988. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:31, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of KMIZ

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DYK for WNET (Rhode Island)

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RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

DYK for WUXP-TV

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Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

DYK for WLMT

On 27 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article WLMT, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that TV stations in Nashville and in Memphis, Tennessee, both on channel 30, lost their Fox affiliations in 1990? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WUXP-TV. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, WLMT), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of KCPT

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Your GA nomination of KCPT

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Your GA nomination of KCPT

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Nice. My local public television station is now a Good Article station. mer764KCTV5^(Talk) 21:50, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of KTIV

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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

DYK for WTVZ-TV

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♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Possible FA work

I would be interested in working on some of the articles about Chattanooga TV stations (or stations around the state). I am very familiar with the stations in Chattanooga, as I grew up watching them. On a related note, one idea that I've had for the last year or so is getting WSM (AM) or Grand Ole Opry (or both) to featured article status by their 100th anniversary next year. In case you don't know, WSM is one of the oldest and probably most famous radio stations in the world, and the Opry is the oldest radio program in North America that still airs. This isn't something I've actually taken very seriously up until this point, as I also hope to get Scopes trial (which was also the first trial in the US to be broadcast by radio, FYI) to TFA by its 100th anniversary next year; however, this is certainly something I would like to consider doing. Bneu2013 (talk) 08:27, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of WRLH-TV

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Thanks!!!!!1

Thank you for reviewing the Its Hard to Have Hope article!!!! Also i need your trade secrets for that trans banner :))) Chchcheckit (talk) 23:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to steal it @Chchcheckit; it's a template on my page, and it's not even mine. I see this isn't your first GA rodeo. Have you ever thought of reviewing GAs? And another question, are you on WP:DISCORD? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:52, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Sigh, I wish I could do GA reviews but they're too complicated for me and I get confused easily rgggh. And no, not on discord. Chchcheckit (talk) 23:57, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

I'd love to walk you through one at some point, @Chchcheckit. I even have articles you could try reviewing, if that would help. It'd be a lot easier for me to do this if you were on Discord, I'll admit. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:12, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Rancho Solano Preparatory High School

The article Rancho Solano Preparatory High School has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Zero sources, no evidence of notability

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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@AusLondonder Wow, turns out that was redundant to the older Rancho Solano Preparatory School, which can cover the whole RS system in depth. Totally the right call to junk it. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:09, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

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March 2024

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Television stations task force#FCC callsigns vs. ICAO codes. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 17:38, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Nathan Obral: just pulled a User:Tvtonightokc with his expansion of WSVN and dedicated it to Vami. Yes, he was being bold, but is it overkill? With 418 citations, sporadic linking to common terms, etc. I smell some cruft here. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:59, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mvcg66b3r I'm very aware and in fact provided assistance for this project. It is our immediate next step to solicit an editor outside of this topic area to make suggestions to get it below 10,000 words.

WSVN is a station that has several factors to push up the size count, including its major-city status, age, density of newspaper (South Florida is particularly rich in paper), FCC license challenge, affiliation switch, and the fact that its style of newscasting took on outsized importance and influence. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:04, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

There is a strong difference between writing for the sake of writing and doing a project off-and-on for the better part of two years. This project with WSVN already spawned WPST-TV and 1989 South Florida television affiliation switch as distinct articles. While I'm not particularly fond of the other editor in the original comment, I also don't think it's a good idea to bring them up by name in a talk page. Just my opinion.

I have ideas as to how to possibly port things over to other articles or spin off an article or two, but want to consult non-topic editors first and foremost on that. Nathan Obral • he/him • t • c • 05:14, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Re: @BMarGlines: We know Gray has been dropping network logos from their station logos (particularly NBC and CBS affiliates), so most of these changes have to be real. On the other hand, BMarGlines may be editing disruptively. Over at Commons, I marked three of their uploads for speedy deletion as copyvios (KVLY, WECP, WNEM), only to be reverted by another editor, prompting me to submit regular deletion requests. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 19:01, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

And BMarGlines just reverted your reversion on WVLT-TV. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 19:05, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Just tagged another one of BMarGlines' Commons uploads as a copyvio (c:File:WWPI16TV.svg); let's see if this one sticks. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 19:24, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:BMarGlines#Gray CBS affiliates. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 12:15, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

TFA again

story · music · places

Thank you today for KCPQ, introduced: "For a television station that didn't broadcast in color at all for its first 19 years of broadcasting, channel 13 in western Washington sure has had a colorful history. A summary would run too long even for FAC, but it can be roughly divided into six periods: its foundation as KMO-TV, the short-lived television adjunct of a long-running Tacoma radio station; the J. Elroy McCaw and Blaidon years as KTVW, which saw it run second-fiddle among local independent stations and ended in bankruptcy and a year of silence; its operation by the Clover Park School District as an educational station, curtailed by changing financial circumstances and new local exigencies; return to commercial operation under Kelly Broadcasting, which included Fox affiliation (in 1986), relocation of facilities to Seattle (in 1997), and the beginning of a news department (in 1998) and left KCPQ the definitive fourth force in regional television; 20 years under Tribune Broadcasting, which built KCPQ up substantially in the area of news, and briefly Nexstar Media Group; and its operation as an owned-and-operated station of Fox after the network had coveted it since the 1990s. Along the way, readers will learn of its status as the "funny, fuzzy" station on Seattle's TV dial; the court-appointed trustee who saw enough during an episode of Batman; and Fox's almost-plan to abandon KCPQ and build a Fox-owned station out of the TV equivalent of sticks and stones."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:33, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Rossini's Petite messe solennelle was premiered on 14 March 1864, - when I listen to the desolate Agnus Dei I think of Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded vacation pics (from back home), at least the first day, - and remember Aribert Reimann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:11, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of WRLH-TV

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DYK for WFOR-TV

On 8 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article WFOR-TV, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Miami TV station built a news set atop a wooden conference room table? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WFOR-TV. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, WFOR-TV), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

WYBC

Hi Sammi, first, I'm a big fan of your work to improve radio and television station articles and have been following them over the last year. Thank you for your contributions. Second, I wanted to ask if you entertain requests. :) I continue to volunteer as an alumnus of my college radio station WYBC (AM)/WYBC-FM (probably should be combined) and wanted to ask if you might be interested in improving it, or if you have suggestions on missing source material. I would be able to track down some free use media, such as photos and audio (station IDs and promos) from over the years, depending on the length of the article. It's an interesting station, being organizationally student-run as an independent non-profit separate from the university, but also running a professional FM station often at the top of the New Haven market. Let me know what you think? czar 14:04, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Czar, these would be promising articles for improvement if more New Haven paper were available and still might be if a Yale student publication is. WYBC-FM screams "possible DYK" with the right resources. NewsBank has full-text articles from 1988 on for the Register, but that's it. If there is a full-run digitized version of the Register, it'd be with NewsBank (as this is a Hearst publication), and they don't even have it. Given the coverage area, the Courant (which I've mined for articles including WTIC-TV and the mammoth at WUVN) is not likely to be of use. By the way, no merger of those two articles would fly: the stations had lengthy and separate histories. What strikes me as odd is that Yale filed for a commercial FM in the late 50s. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 08:22, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

The student-run Yale Daily News is fully archived online here. It has more editorial control than most student papers (and call itself the "oldest college daily") so I'd consider it among the best of its class, but I've always worked with the understanding that student papers weren't reliable enough for the encyclopedia, no?

The lack of New Haven papers is a shame. I've reached out to Yale Libraries to ask about access to their digital versions of the New Haven Journal Courier family of newspapers. Yale might also have the Register beyond Hearst's 1988 archives (listing says to 1961).

re: split, the Yale Broadcasting Company used leaky cable before the FM and had other history (among the first to broadcast student television; running the Ivy Network; free speech case against the FCC that went to the appelate court; separate Internet radio streams) that might not fit neatly into dedicated articles on the FM and AM, but perhaps that's a third article instead of a merger.

I'll ask around about filing as a commercial station in the 50s—was that uncommon?

I wasn't sure if there were any other industry periodicals that might have more too, in case you have access to Radio Daily-Television Daily, etc.

Thanks for taking a peek czar 14:19, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of K33DB-D for deletion

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Mvcg66b3r (talk) 07:41, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mvcg66b3r Woof. This is when I was doing Weather Channel articles in the 2008–09 period. Really obvious what to do with it—but the input station is now apparently WCCO. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 08:13, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of KIDY

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DYK for KMIZ

On 10 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KMIZ, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KMIZ. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KMIZ), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:04, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of A-Channel

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Your GA nomination of WLFL

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Your GA nomination of KARE (TV)

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:KNDO#Merger proposal. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 15:47, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of A-Channel

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Your GA nomination of KXTX-TV

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Congratulations, the article has passed! Geardona (talk to me?) 05:30, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of KXTX-TV

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A Dobos torte for you!

7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it. To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

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Question on GenealogyBank articles

How do you create the clips that can be viewed for free? I saw you made that change on some articles I've created or edited and I can't figure out how it's done. Thanks. Billmckern (talk) 20:44, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Billmckern, I need to make a guide for people that have subscriptions, but there is a Clip tool in the upper right hand corner on the image pages.

1. Select the area you want to clip.
2. Select "Save to My Folder" in the tooltip.
3. Enter a title (I always use the article title). What I like to do for newer papers is enter the page number (e.g. E-1) in the description because "Page 35" is not the actual page. I also usually enter a tag (in my case, usually a broadcast station call sign) to facilitate searching for your clippings in the admittedly deficient Newspaper Clippings search.
4. Check the box at the bottom labeled Public. It's not on by default. If you don't do this, nobody can view your clipping!
5. The clipping will be saved to your My Folder, but with a URL like https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136518060B9CC65F%40GB3NEWS-19681DFEB8E81A96%402441981-1968156C318BE44E%4036-1968156C318BE44E?clipid=mphzvtkqzorpaeeghcajgvyebgqshpdd_ip-10-166-46-116_1710455849122. It will also be saved to the Newspaper Clippings section with a URL like https://www.genealogybank.com/newspaper-clippings/seen-channel-62-here-ur-officially-linked-tv-station-san-bernardino-valley/mphzvtkqzorpaeeghcajgvyebgqshpdd_ip-10-166-46-116_1710455849122 . You want the latter, and you don't need the page title automatically added. Note that the text after the last slash in the scond URL is the same as after the ?clipid= in the first URL. You can do a regex find-and-replace search like I did for existing clippings with clip IDs (find: \/doc\/newspapers\/image/v2*(.+?)\$?clipid\=, replace with /newspaper-clippings//, note the second slash), but any unclipped GBank links on the encyclopedia now need to be clipped. You can find these with a search like Special:Search/insource:"doc newspapers image" — note that some are archive URLs that need to be kept or, ideally, replaced, and I'm fairly sure some of the pages I work on have borked archives now for GBank.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:55, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of KASN

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Your GA nomination of KASN

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Your GA nomination of WKBS-TV (Philadelphia)

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Your GA nomination of WLFL

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Your GA nomination of WLFL

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Nomination for deletion of Template:REC US

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Your GA nomination of WBBH-TV

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Your GA nomination of KTIV

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DYK for WREP-LD

On 20 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article WREP-LD, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an Indiana newspaper donated its TV station to the local high school instead of shutting it down? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WREP-LD. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, WREP-LD), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of KARE (TV)

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KEXC

For what it's worth, although KREV applied for the new call sign back in December, the FCC hasn't granted the change yet. The renaming of the article was premature. Mlaffs (talk) 01:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mlaffs Woof. That's an odd thing to happen and probably a rare FCC slip-up. It's a bit WP:IAR of me, but the call sign is reserved, and I'm not going to move the article back unless things take a while because I really, really do not want a move war. This station page has seen all-time highs in traffic, as well as editors who may not be familiar with how to handle these pages; the new call sign is being used in top-of-hour IDs. For awareness, pinging @Nathan Obral. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:44, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

IIRC, the FCC will probably backdate the switch to when it was reserved for use so the station doesn't get in trouble for doing the "wrong" ID. Basically like a retcon. I know the FCC has had this happen before by accident but I'm forgetting the circumstances... IIRC, it was with the old CDBS setup that prevented a page move. Nathan Obral • he/him • t • c • 02:33, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

They've actually had it happen several times over the last year or so, with long, long gaps between the requested effective date and when it actually gets processed; really since the move to LMS, lots of stuff has gone sideways at the FCC. And for what it's worth, @Sammi Brie, I probably should have been more clear - I actually wasn't suggesting moving it back. Would have just done that myself in that case, but I saw the volume of edits on that article just in the last couple of weeks. Just dropped the original note here for awareness. Mlaffs (talk) 00:34, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of WTXF-TV

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Your GA nomination of WBBH-TV

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Your GA nomination of WBBH-TV

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Quick question on review

Hi Sammi, I wanted to ask a question about Talk:Renata Carvalho/GA1. Almost all of your GA reviews are exemplary, but I found this QF odd. There's explicitly no minimum length for GA per the WP:GACR, and while very short articles are perhaps more likely to have problems, I don't see why a 450-word article should immediately be failed. Did you mean that the article does not have sufficient breadth due to its missing information found in Portuguese-language sourcing (3a)? Or am I missing something? In any case, thanks for all your hard work reviewing this March - you have made a real difference. —Ganesha811 (talk) 14:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie: just wanted to make sure you saw this. Let me know your thoughts! —Ganesha811 (talk) 21:43, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

I did, @Ganesha811, and was busy. I just thought it wasn't broad enough in general. I do use length as a correlating factor and might have taken a closer look had the page been at 600+ words like some of GnocchiFan's other GANs. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok! A qf on breadth is absolutely no problem, but please avoid phrasing like "not long enough to be a Good Article at about 450 words" in the future, to avoid nominators getting the impression that there's a strict word count requirement. —Ganesha811 (talk) 22:14, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good, @Ganesha811. Thanks for keeping this drive running. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:15, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of WTXF-TV

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DYK for WWXL (Illinois)

On 25 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article WWXL (Illinois), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an Illinois radio station closed down to reduce interference with television reception? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WWXL (Illinois). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, WWXL (Illinois)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of WTXF-TV

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Rahul Gandhi

Hi there, I hope you are doing well. I've been developing the Wikipedia article on Rahul Gandhi's biography of living persons (BLP). While I've made my best effort to include all necessary information to pass the GA nomination, I'm personally not satisfied with the content it currently contains. Consequently, I'm concerned it might be subject to quick failure just like Ayesha Takia. Could you please provide your valuable suggestions or recommendations either on my talk page or here, so that the article doesn't fail quickly? I also want to ensure that it's easy for the reviewer to assess. Thanks in advance. 25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ^🍁 15:15, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Taking a look and giving it some copyediting @25 Cents FC. It doesn't have the YouTube quickfail issue that took down Ayesha Takia, but it's not GAN-ready either.

• Gandhi completed his elementary education at St. Columba's School in New Delhi from 1981 to 1983. He then attended The Doon School in Dehradun (also the alma mater of his father, Rajiv Gandhi) from 1981 to 1983. Did both of these happen at the same time...?
• There's some puffery in the IYC/NSUI section which I've tried to reduce.
• The National Herald item lacks context and is out of nowhere for me.
• Any update in re disqualification, IYC/NSUI chairmanship?
• Adding that terrorism has no religion, he claimed that Rahul Gandhi had shown his lack of understanding India. what a muddle
• the UP state government As in Uttar Pradesh?
• BJP, SP, CPI and JD(U) the only one formally introduced here has been BJP. help.
• Rewrite the Lokpal section to bring it up to date and increase citation density.
• 1 lakh rewrite as 100,000
• Be more holistic and less speech-dependent in some of the items toward the end

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Sammi Brie Thank you so much for making significant changes. I've taken note of your suggestions and I'm currently implementing the necessary changes. Additionally, I've expanded the "Political Positions" section and am in the process of elaborating on the "General Election (2009 and 2014)", "General Election (2019)", and "Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (2024)" sections. Meanwhile, could I please ask for your assistance in reducing puffery throughout the article? Thanks again. 25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ^🍁 20:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Can you please help with my GA nominees?

Hello, Sammi! Let me introduce myself. I have a degree in information security (that is mainly computer security also known as cybersecurity), but my hobby is medicine, so I mostly contribute to medical articles, such as one that you reviewed, HNMT. Thank you very much for reviewing the article. You were very thorough in grammar and punctuation. Can you please help me with punctuation in the other articles that I nominated, by just editing them and fixing errors that you noticed? If you find a sentense that is not comprehensible, please let me know in the talk page, so I will edit it. You introduced yourself as the nominator of many TV-related articles. I briefly looked to these article and they are perfect, I could not find any GA-related problem in them from the first glance, although, I didn't spend much time as a GA review would have required. Can you help me with fixing errors in the articles that I nominated, you will find them in Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations#Biology and medicine? Your expertise in TV-related articles is evident, and I believe your keen eye for detail would greatly benefit the articles I’ve nominated. I understand that this might be a departure from your usual area of interest, but I think your perspective could provide valuable insights. In addition to punctuation, I would appreciate if you could also look at the overall structure and flow of the articles. Sometimes, being so immersed in the subject matter, I might overlook how the information is presented to readers who are not as familiar with the topic. Your feedback on this would be invaluable. I noticed that your articles have a very engaging and accessible style. If you could give me some tips on how to make complex medical topics more understandable to the general public, I would be very grateful. Lastly, I would be more than happy to return the favor. However, I'm not sure if that would be ethical if I review your articles, as I might be biased because you reviewed my article. However, I can probably look with more details to your article and if I notice something, I could give suggestions if you wish at the talk page. Thank you in advance for considering my request. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 19:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

@Maxim Masiutin People trade reviews often. Have you reviewed a GA before? And on a related note, have you considered joining WP:DISCORD? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 19:28, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I reviewed about 6 articles before. My first 2 or 3 reviews were bad, but my last several reviews were good in my opinion, so I'm improving. Let me join the discord server. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 19:36, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

My last GA review was Talk:Motivation/GA1, but this article was not ideal, so even if it formally corresponded to the GA criteria, I came up with many suggestions after the review via the talk page of Talk:Motivation. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 19:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

As about trading the reivews, I'm a part-time university professor and have a couple of publications in peer-reviewed journals, and in that academic community reviewing each other is considered as introducing bias, and is not welcome. However, I don't know about the habits here in Wikipedia. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 19:44, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

What's different from peer review @Maxim Masiutin is that there is no ulterior or monetary motive and editors want to focus on what's best for the project. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:00, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I registered on Discord a few days ago, as you recommended, with the same username as in Wikipedia. By the way, what is your username on Discord? Can you please ping me on Discord, so that I could know you username. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 17:22, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

Also, I never nominated anything to "Did you know". Can you please help me in guiding through this process, as I'm a newbie in this GA/DYK stuff. Do you think that we could nominate something from the HNMT article for DYK? Do you have any idea or suggestion? Maxim Masiutin (talk) 19:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

@Maxim Masiutin What do you think might be among the most interesting facts for a general audience about HNMT? Having done DYK (I'm in the top 15 all-time in DYKs), an interesting hook is a must, particularly for technical or technical-sounding topics. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 19:27, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I don't know whether it is something interesting at all. I didn't know you are in top DYK, that's amazing. I had a feeling that you have experience in DYK, that's why I asked you for a suggestion. I'm not insisting on DYK with HNMT, we can skip it and don't nominate to DYK if there is nothing interesting, maybe we will have idea with any subsequent articles that I nominated. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 19:35, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

@Maxim Masiutin, what is the one fact in that article that might be most interesting to a general audience? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:00, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for KXTX-TV

On 27 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KXTX-TV, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Pat Robertson let his Christian TV station in Dallas air wrestling because it drew viewers and fetched high advertising rates? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KXTX-TV. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KXTX-TV), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:02, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

BLP: News anchor updates

Hi Sammi Brie, I noticed that you have worked on several journalism-related articles. I'd appreciate you looking at my request to update Jane Skinner's article, formerly a Fox News anchor. Would you mind implementing these changes? Thanks! Sadielousd (talk) 15:45, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Junebug3000

Safe to say this user has been behaving the same way as @BMarGlines: Uploading logos at Commons as CC0 (when they're not CC0; they are PD). Mvcg66b3r (talk) 19:30, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, it's not actually clear they're PD. The one that wholesale reuses the NBC peacock, for instance, is a logo above the threshold of originality. I'd suggest that based on the text placement some of the CW ones are in something of a grey area. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 21:19, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mvcg66b3r Yeah, I noticed that. CC0 is a default, but it's the same insistences. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

And their edits have just been reverted (not actual logos). Do you think they may be faking those logos? Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:35, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Just reported @Junebug3000: and @BMarGlines: for sockpuppetry. They're obviously the same person. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 21:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

No, I'm not Junebug3000, not a sockpuppet! BMarGlines (talk) 21:11, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sockpuppet or BMarGlines. BMarGlines was first doing these logo changes I just followed what he did. Junebug3000 (talk) 01:23, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

For the CW logos, it's semi-avaliable via YouTube TV, but the other stations I don't really know. I don't fully think we should jump into unnecessary (in my mind) conclusions until it makes sense, and saying obviously like if you know 100% they are, sounds odd to me, sounds like an WP:OFCOURSE moment. So yea, anyway.... mer764KCTV5 (He/Him | t • c) 11:19, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kentucky Educational Television

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DYK for KIDY

On 30 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KIDY, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that following a boycott orchestrated by church groups, a Texas TV station ceased airing the controversial NYPD Blue after just a month? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KIDY. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KIDY), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Re: KVVU-TV

@Gettinglit: says the article may have been edited in return for undisclosed payments. Is there any evidence of that? Or do you think they're trolling us? Mvcg66b3r (talk) 01:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I'm clearly not a troll account but you seem to know exactly how to push the buttons of Wikipedia moderators by implying I might be one and I find that weaponization pretty disturbing. You shouldn't call random people you simply disagree with on subjects a troll, and instead should form points to support your opinion.

And that's why the tag says "may" have been which appears supported if you go through the articles edit history you'll find several edits by "FOX5ADMIN" (KVVU-TV is Fox 5 Las Vegas). Gettinglit (talk) 01:28, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I just checked using ToolForge and there were no edits by that user (or if there were, they may have been made a long time ago. [1] Mvcg66b3r (talk) 01:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

You can view some of them here so I don't know why you're claiming there's no edits by that user. I also don't see the validity in saying they were made "a long time ago" as it shows the article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/FOX5Admin

Appears they may have realized making edit under that account may not be best and may have decided to have their journalists teams edit under other accounts. Majority of the citations for the article are all single cited KVVU-TV articles as well as paid NewsWire promotion articles and there is profit to be made by their organization and parent media group that's on the stock market. Gettinglit (talk) 01:44, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@Gettinglit The problem is that all the edits are from 2011. Looking at them closely, they were to the station's listing of on-air news personalities. Our standards are far tighter. Back then, an article might contain an unreferenced listing of every news anchor at the station. That is no longer the case, and I'm removing the UPE tag because there is no trace of those edits left.

You're right to say the article needs a bath. As you might know, I've been working on TV station Good Article projects for some time, and KSNV and KTNV-TV have both been done in this market plus KHSV. KVVU is not on my docket because I have other articles I want to write first, quite frankly, but I do have some material that could go here. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kentucky Educational Television

The article Kentucky Educational Television you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Kentucky Educational Television for comments about the article, and Talk:Kentucky Educational Television/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Maxim Masiutin -- Maxim Masiutin (talk) 16:20, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @Sammi Brie! Let me express my appreciation for your work and dedication to writing good articles, and particularly throughout the recent nomination of the Kentucky Educational Television, where you worked to get an opinion of another editor who should have reviewed whether the article meets the Wikipedia Good Article. It is true that our journey was not without its challenges. I was in some parts was rigorous, and there were moments of disagreement as we navigated through the criteria. However, I believe these instances were not obstacles, but rather opportunities for me to learn, grow, and even refine the article to its best possible version. I want to assure you that any feedback or critique I provided during the review was aimed solely at ensuring the quality of the article and was in no way personal. In the spirit of open communication, I would appreciate if you confirm that there are no lingering issues or negative feelings on your end. If you have any feedback for me, I would greatly appreciate hearing it now so that we can address it directly and ensure that nothing is left unsaid. My hope is that any differences we had have been resolved and that there are no hard feelings between us. Looking back, I am proud of what we have accomplished. Thank you! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 18:45, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for KASN

On 3 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KASN, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an Arkansas TV station apologized for not being on the air by sending local media a drawing of ducks? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KASN. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KASN), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

– Hilst [talk] 20:28, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for A-Channel

On 4 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article A-Channel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an Edmonton politician began mouthing his words when he saw a cameraman for A-Channel walk in, mocking the frequent audio difficulties on its newscasts? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A-Channel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, A-Channel), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:38, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Kentucky Educational Television

Hi Sammi

Just to let you know I've approved your DYK nomination Template:Did you know nominations/Kentucky Educational Television :)

John Cummings (talk) 19:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for KARE (TV)

On 6 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KARE (TV), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Minneapolis TV station had newscasts that were "about as popular as the measles" with "sickening theme music"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KARE (TV). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KARE (TV)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Just ask

Thank you for your question. It helps me to focus my answers. -- Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 06:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Scripps News affiliates

On the affiliates section of this article, could you help with the an affiliate template and add stations according this RabbitEars link: https://www.rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=Scripps+News&sort=state? OWaunTon (talk) 15:49, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		Thank you for participating in the March 2024 backlog drive. Your remarkable contribution (77.5 points total) helped reduce the backlog by more than 250 articles! Here's a token of our appreciation. —Ganesha811 (talk) 15:56, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

		The Content Review Medal of Merit
		You reviewed the most articles of any participant. You deserve this medal, with gratitude. —Ganesha811 (talk) 15:56, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

About Mew DYK

Not quite sure how to reply to a DYK page given the lack of a reply function, so pardon is this is a bit forward, but I was a bit confused by your statement of adding a second call. I presume you mean add an additional source, but do you mean adding a second source to verify the hook, or adding another source to the article itself to verify the information? Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 22:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pokelego999 No, merely adding another "ref name = " there. It's more that DYK wants the citation for a hook fact right next to the hook fact, even if it's already a couple sentences away. (You can reply by editing the source on those pages and pinging me.) Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

I've added the cite next to the text in the article. In any case, thank you for the help, will keep this in mind for the future. Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 00:01, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pokelego999 Are you on WP:DISCORD by chance? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:08, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Yep, I'm on the Discord. Why do you ask? Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 00:10, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Was just curious — always like to promote that to rising editors. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

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DYK for National Women's Basketball Association

On 13 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article National Women's Basketball Association, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the National Women's Basketball Association's methods of selling tickets were derided as "like something from grammar school"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/National Women's Basketball Association. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, National Women's Basketball Association), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Hits Radio (UK)

With reference to the 2021 RfC on the Greatest Hits Radio station rollup, I note that the same thing is now happening with various Bauer CHR/Hot AC stations being rolled up into the Hits Radio brand. Someone enthusiastic is already going around moving these to the Hits Radio titles, e.g. Hits Radio Staffordshire & Cheshire rather than Signal 1. I'd support the same thing as happened with Greatest Hits - i.e. the scope of these station articles stopping at the point of the Hits Radio rebrand, to preserve the history of each unique station. I don't, however, know how to do an RfC so would appreciate any assistance! Flip Format (talk) 11:37, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

@Flip Format The problem I am having with applying this consensus is that the GHR rollup led to the axing of a lot of local programming. This rollup is not doing that. Is that a correct assessment? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:31, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware, and I'd defer to those who are more enthusiastic about the Bauer-verse on this, there are no changes to programming at these stations at this time, it's just a change of branding. However, the stations have already had most of their local programming removed - all except a single morning show, and not even that in some cases where even that show is now shared (e.g. in the case of Radio City (Liverpool) and Rock FM). I'm not sure that these stations in their current state are worthy of articles - but their previous incarnations certainly are.

My preference would be for the articles to primarily discuss the stations as they were and their histories, including some very significant stations such as Radio City, rather than to focus on their dying few months where they are mostly functioning as network relays. For many of these stations, there is enough material out there to produce separate articles on, for instance, Radio City as a local station (1974-2024, when it lost its local morning show) and Hits Radio Liverpool, which might be an acceptable compromise.

A complicating factor is that there are changes to regulation coming down the line within the next 12 months which will permit stations to drop even the single local/regional show that is currently being broadcast - once that happens, these stations will probably be subsumed entirely into a single Hits Radio program. There are people out there who seem very enthusiastic about the Bauer changes, to the point of moving these articles to new titles even prior to the re-brand, but I'm keen that we don't lose the stations' histories. Flip Format (talk) 09:12, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@Flip Format The name change might be as good a time as any to establish the cutoff then. I would argue that given the limited local output post-name change, "Hits Radio Liverpool" (for instance) as an entity is not standalone notable, especially, if it's likely that a national breakfast show will soon be permissible. I know that in the last couple of years, Newspapers.com through WP:TWL has increased its UK holdings, which might make it useful to write the pre-internet histories of a lot of these stations. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:30, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

I'd agree that there should be a cutoff at the point where these stations re-name themselves, which I believe is this week. Radio City, for instance, is clearly notable on its own as the main commercial radio station in Liverpool for 50 years, without needing to be attached to an article about whatever is currently on 96.7. There can then be a general article about the Hits Radio network, with mentions of the local morning shows - I don't believe this network produces enough local programming to make the individual stations notable. I don't know, however, how to action that in the context of other editors going around moving articles to "Hits Radio [area X]" names and subsuming the often lengthy histories of these stations into articles about needle-waggling Hits network stations.

I have access to the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive via ProQuest, I'm not sure if this is included in TWL. It mostly deals with TV and movie topics, but has a good archive of Broadcast (magazine) from 1960-2000 which has reasonable radio industry coverage for much of the histories of these stations. I also have access to LexisNexis which has good national newspaper archives for the UK, but what I'm missing is local/regional press, which is where a lot of stories about these stations will exist. Flip Format (talk) 10:37, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for KTIV

On 14 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KTIV, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an Iowa TV station paid Tom Brokaw, a future anchor of NBC Nightly News, $75 a week to work as a staff announcer and part-time newscaster? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KTIV. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KTIV), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for UDC Homes

On 14 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article UDC Homes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that shareholders of UDC Homes received two settlements over claims that executives sought to inflate its stock price and conceal financial information? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/UDC Homes. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, UDC Homes), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on WXIN

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Thank you!

I just wanted to thank you for saving the radio station articles with sources. You've introduced me to WP:BEFORE, something I was unaware of (maybe it didn't exist in the early 2000s?), but I appreciate very much. I'm glad there's an ally on here willing to help improve radio station articles, as they're often difficult to find sources for. Happy editing!!! ḾỊḼʘɴίcả • Talk • _{I DX for fun!} 06:25, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@Milonica We have so many short stubs and so many articles that really need attention. The rolling culling of low-power TV stations has taken up more time than I'd like, but I know that there are some places where nobody else can get the sources to save an obviously notable topic. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:29, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

It's the same way with LPFMs. They're very hard to find sources for, as they are usually just community stations. The more powerful full license stations are what I'm concerned about losing. This has happened before with WP:WPRS and I hope it's just a phase. Anyway, I will defend radio station articles as much as possible. The big one I wanted to thank you on is KBGN. ḾỊḼʘɴίcả • Talk • _{I DX for fun!} 07:14, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of WLOS

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DYK for KDCD-TV

On 19 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KDCD-TV, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the planned sale of a Texas TV station was the subject of a lawsuit more than seven years after it closed for the last time? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KDCD-TV. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KDCD-TV), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 19 April 2024 (UTC)