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[edit] Podcasts?

Would they count under our project? DrWho42 19:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Since we include internet radio, I don't see why podcasts couldn't be. --PhantomS 20:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WEGO at AfD

An article that you have been involved in editing, WEGO, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WEGO. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --Eastmain 06:01, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Which is preferred?

In the event that a set of callsigns are assigned to both an FM and AM station, which article title style is preferred -- WXXX-FM or WXXX (FM)? I'm working on Michigan radio stations, and have found that there is no consistency at all, and am curious if there is a consensus as to which is preferred so I may proceed. Thanks! JPG-GR 07:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

The preferred format is WXXX (FM). --PhantomS 08:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JPG-GR (talk • contribs) 17:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC).

First of all, if you look up the FCC query for WKFR-FM in Kalamazoo, Michigan -- it reads WKFR-FM not WKFR... It is only fair that you use the official call letters with the suffix!!! Wouldn't you agree??? --WIKISCRIPPS 07 THU JAN 18 2007 9:24 PM EST

Oh and by the way I oppose the move!!! --WIKISCRIPPS 07 THU JAN 18 2007 9:32 PM EST

The Radio Stations Wikiproject established the conventions for station titles. If you disagree with the formatting of radio station article titles, I would post the complaint to their project's talk page as well. --PhantomS 02:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Since the radio station wikiproject's page was less than clear on the whole matter, I rewrote it. It should now, hopefully, be entirely comprehensible. --PhantomS 20:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately, with the rewrite, I have to retract my previous blanket statement and actually say that the suffix depends upon whether the -FM is included in the official call sign. --PhantomS 06:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the Week-1/21/07 to 1/27/07

I nominate the Radio article. We should be able to get it up to at least good article status within a week. --PhantomS 20:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible article for inclusion on its talkpage for your banner (Mark Simone)

Hello, I am a member of several other projects and recently came across Mark Simone's article because of changes made to another article I watch that his links to. Normally I would follow Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages and be bold in adding your banner to this radio announcer/DJ but wanted your okay first. I do not belong to your project (meaning I don't watch your page (as I have over 620 pages I currently watch) but will see your change if you approve on his talkpage. Cheers, Ronbo76 06:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Maybe I should join your project too. I remember some of the golden old radio days listening to Roy Rogers, Gene Autry along with personalities like Steve Allen, Vin Scully, Don Drysdale etal. Those just some old radio names from the gone by L.A. days. Please consider those personalities too who don't have your project tag.

And, if your project wants to be bold and put its banner on my userpage, I would not object (if one is available). Otherwise I will do it in about a week or so. Ronbo76 07:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Please sign the participants list on the project page and place {{User WikiProject Radio}} on your user page if you are interested in joining the project. --PhantomS 07:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
By the way, this project has only been around since about December. Therefore, there are many radio articles that still need to be tagged with {{WikiProject Radio}}. In addition, there are many that are tagged, which need to be classified. --PhantomS 07:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
OOOhhh, can I do it like they used to do on What's My Line? Man, oh man that was a hard one on radio. Let's see, Dick Enberg, Jerry Doggett, . . . more baseball radio greats will come to me. What's My Line has no tag? Horrors! Ronbo76 07:51, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi ho, Silver, away!

Oh Cisco, I think man with smart friend wants to see you. I'm in. Jerry Doggett is too. This one's one is for you, Dad! Thanks for the Memories you gave me as a kid. Ronbo76 09:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Add California radio stations

After I run an errand, I will begin to add California radio stations like KFI to our project. I have rated articles before for another project I am part of. My normal standard is that I will not rate above a B class, Low importance to avoid overinflating the ratings.

I have reviewed the guidelines for rating. In some cases upon looking at an article, I agree with its present rating; in others I disagree but do not reassess unless I feel I am on certain ground. On an article that is no longer a Stub article, that is an easy upgrade to Start. I will review each article prior to putting the project tag on it and placing an assessment.

I will start with KFI and move up the Northern California valley. Cheers, Ronbo76 17:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Radio stations are handled by our descendant project WikiProject Radio Stations. Essentially, the radio wikiproject handles everything that doesn't deal with radio stations or amateur radio (another descendant project). --PhantomS 20:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that after I made the edit and waited for a reply before adding more stations. I will review and remove it if it is still there. I have added a small number of broadcasters from the Socal region. It is amazing that some of these bios do not have talkpage with any bio or project tags. Ronbo76 01:28, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Any one know the subject of this article (Bill Cherry)

I noticed this article because of some odd edits on another page I watch. I did a search on the person but cannot find any references. All the edits are coming from the creator and an anonymous IP who I believe is also the article creator. Ronbo76 03:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hawaii Calls radio program

I wanted to let this WikiProject know about a new article I created on the Hawaii Calls radio program which ran from 1935 through 1975 and supposedly was one of the most listened to radio shows in the world at some point in time. The article links to a few articles here and there but is mostly hidden away. If any of you can improve it, please do.-BiancaOfHell 12:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] February 11, 2007 additions to this project - gold mine in Monitor (NBC Radio)

I was going through Monitor (NBC Radio) and found a number of radio personalities who are not in this project. I should be done adding most of the names by later today. I wish I had thought to indicate which articles included a picture of the person speaking into a radio mike. It is kind of neat to see some of the old time photos of announcers/singers/etc addressing a radio mike. Might be nice to make a gallery of those pics. Ronbo76 22:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, we don't have these photos to display. Hopefully, someone has these photos in a collection or knows how to find them, in order to solve that problem. --PhantomS 22:47, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Depending on where the photos are stored, they could be moved to a gallery on Wikimedia Commons. It is just a matter of setting up a category there and then creating/moving/adding photos (either as links or the picture itself). I have an account there but not too sure on all the mechanics. Here is a great example of an article already in our project. I just read Clifton Fadiman who has a pic at the mike. Fadiman's picture is stored here on Wikimedia. The best place is to copy this picture to Wiki Commons. Surely (Don't call me Shirley), someone smarter than me knows how to do this. If the photos are already on Wiki Commons, it is just a matter of adding the category to the picture and then it links to our gallery.
Here is one gallery Marin County gallery that I am familiar with from another project. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ronbo76 (talk • contribs) 23:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC).
I don't think that the images are on any of the Wikipedia servers. In addition, I think most of them would probably be fair use, which would prevent them from being uploaded to commons. --PhantomS 23:53, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Howard Stern Show assessment

An assessment of the Howard Stern Show has been requested on the assessment page. --PhantomS 04:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I would rate it, B, Mid which is my highest grade. Ronbo76 04:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I would as well. There are some copyedit problems, missing references, and the structure needs some work. --PhantomS 06:46, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the confirmation. If the suggested improvements are implemented, it should easily rise to A Status. Maybe, even High. Ronbo76 21:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] todo list updated

The todo list has been update. Project members please add it to your watchlist. By the way, there is a new peer review department. --PhantomS 06:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I wonder how many articles in the Category:American radio personalities have our tag

Just got to thinking that as I stroked along adding radio personalities. I should check for the radio. Looking at Bob Hope, who I just added to our project, he has this category. I bet some of the articles in the Category:American radio personalities do not have our project tag. Ronbo76 05:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Frequency of optimum transmission

In reviewing a batch of articles for Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles, I came across the above article which needs improvement. I noticed it is in Category:Radio frequency propagation and that you have put this cat into your project, so I bring the matter to your attention. I'll do what I can but it is subject I know little of. I also checked a few of the articles in that cat and found a lot that are in the Physics Project but not in your Project. --Bduke 02:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clear Channel Question

There are some of Clear Channel radio stations that are now under "BT Triple Crown Merger Co." (a private company that is pretty much still Clear Channel), should I put the merger company name in small italics under Clear Channel or just put Clear Channel and leave it at that? Many thanks...SVRTVDude (Yell - Toil) 03:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eddie Cantor as an addition to this project

Eddie Cantor had a substantial radio career. But, to some, he is controversial for his blackface appearances. Still, since he has article here on Wikipedia, and since Wikipedia is not censored, I would like consensus before adding him to this project. Ronbo76

We don't censor on wikipedia. If he was involved with radio, he should be tagged as a radio bio. Controversies with black face, etc. do not prevent a subject from falling into the project's scope; I even think Olivier wore black face at one time. --PhantomS 23:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Must have missed your reply. I will add him if no one else has. Ronbo76 15:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Dog gone it! Someone beat me to him! ;-) I would rated him B Class, Priority Low. Ronbo76
None of the sections look developed. --PhantomS 16:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Podcasting

While searching through categories, I noticed there was a WikiProject Podcasting. I do not know how active the project is, but I guess they should be handling podcasts instead of us. --PhantomS 15:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Leonard Lopate

Hello. I recently uploaded a free use image of radio host Leonard Lopate to the Wikimedia Commons and I placed it in his article. I'm using the Celebrity Infobox. Is there a more appropriate one? I thought I would alert you guys and maybe you could spiff it up.-BillDeanCarter 19:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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