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[edit] February 2008

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[edit] Stubs

The stub notice doesn't need to be present on every radio station's article — it only needs to be on really short articles. A good rule of thumb is that if you can't see the entire article at once, but have to scroll to reach the bottom, then it's not a stub even if it is still expandable. Bearcat (talk) 22:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Radio Disney in Toronto

User:Nathan Williams has a rather long history of creating hoax articles about radio stations that have never existed. If you come across anything that sounds suspicious, please bring it to my attention as soon as possible. Bearcat (talk) 20:02, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Cool, nice job...You'd never get Proud FM out by the airport anyway; it's a pretty low-powered signal that doesn't even generally get to Etobicoke, as far as I know, let alone Mississauga. Hell, I live in Cabbagetown and I can't even pick it up on my stereo, although I know other people who can, and I have heard the station playing in stores or offices in the neighbourhood. And I don't get anything on 95.9 or 101.7 either, but given that I can't get 103.9 despite living within walking distance of their studio and I get none of the AM stations at all, I can't and don't trust my stereo as the primary authority on whether a radio signal exists or not.
CFBN is defunct, yes. I guess the Toronto list got missed when the other ones were updated. But it is permanently off air as of late last year.
I have absolutely no idea why Nathan keeps creating hoax radio articles. He's been warned countless times, but keeps on doing it anyway — when he gets called on it, he stops for a while, but then starts up again a few weeks later. So I wouldn't count on him stopping permanently — but it's not worth blocking him, either, because the one time he did get blocked he just kept right on going with a different user name. Until now his hoaxes have all been in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, though — Toronto's a first for him. He's occasionally written up articles on real radio stations, too, so we can't just automatically delete anything he creates without double-checking it first, but I've also learned a few tricks to watch for:
  1. The owner is usually "Alarm Broadcasting" (which doesn't exist). He might also occasionally use a real company instead, but then criterion #3 below applies.
  2. If he posts a logo, it's a really bad, amateurish one that looks like somebody's first assignment in a college Intro to CorelDraw course.
  3. Links from other articles, lists and/or templates were added by him personally shortly before or after the article's creation and didn't already exist as redlinks.
  4. The call signs used to sometimes be a dead giveaway, too — he doesn't seem to do this anymore, but he used to sometimes give his hoax stations impossible call signs like "CYMJ" or "CTKS", or call signs that are actually already in use somewhere else in Canada.
Hope that helps a bit... Bearcat (talk) 18:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] March 2008

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[edit] Radio lists

You have to leave the {{tocright}} template between the converted part of the list and the part that's still in the old format, or else the table of contents doesn't even start until after the end of the actual list. Bearcat (talk) 02:08, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, by the way, I've found a great database which reads and reports station information directly from the Industry Canada database. It's about 15 times faster than actually going to the IC page itself, and you can actually search by city (the inability to do that is single biggest flaw in Strategis!), so it's going to really simplify the processes of tracking down ownership information and/or locating unknown call signs — I did a city search and confirmed in ten seconds flat that the new CBC Radio One transmitter in Brockville is CBOB. It's at http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php, and there's now a template, {{RecnetCanada}}, so that we can actually put a database source link into Canadian radio station articles similar to what the {{FMQ}} template does for US ones. Bearcat (talk) 18:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Tornadoes of 2008

Unfortunately, {{stormwatch}} has been deleted, despite my efforts. Please do not put any watches on the page unless they have been verified by a few tornadoes. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 22:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008 - spam warning

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[edit] Span link in the radio frequency column

If it helps, here's the guide:

  • FM frequencies 99.9 and below: two zeros,
  • FM frequencies 100.1 and above: one zero,
  • AM frequencies 990 and below: one zero,
  • AM frequencies 1000 and above: no zeros needed, so the span tag can be skipped entirely.

Basically, the tag is a way to make the column sort correctly but still display the frequencies properly. Bearcat (talk) 17:30, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

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[edit] Pelmorex and CFOK

The Pelmorex article was a bit messy about the situation as it actually happened, so I adjusted it a bit further.

Re: CFOK, we don't have to add a web page that has never had any content on it except an "under construction" sign just because it was once intended to be the station's web page. We only need to provide external links that are actually useful to the reader. Bearcat (talk) 04:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Television stations

Don't worry about the "area served" column; that was meant for the mostly American phenomenon of television stations serving a metropolitan market but being licensed to a suburb rather than the main city — so "area served" might be Atlanta while "city of license" is Monroe or Athens. With a few minor exceptions, that kind of thing just doesn't really happen very much in Canadian television, and certainly not in the territories. I've actually been taking that column off the Canadian lists when I come across them, to be honest. Bearcat (talk) 20:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CKPT

Wikipedia leaves the old call sign in place as a redirect to the new one whether the old frequency is still in operation or not. The copyright license that we use actually requires that, and there are about 15 inbound links to the old call sign anyway. Bearcat (talk) 16:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

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