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[edit] July 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although we invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to January 7, was not constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Andrij Kursetsky ⊗ 20:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to January 7. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Qst 20:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WMYX-FM

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to WMYX-FM, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from WMYX-FM. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as the text has been restored from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.--Fightingirish 15:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

In response to this, left on my talk page:
Hey, I get it. You're really into this, I'm a noob who apparently stepped on your toes. I don't want to fight, and I respect the considerable work you've done here.
Not a very nice tone there. You're being rude.
The two things that make WMYX unique in Milwaukee are their marquee programming feature (The No Repeat Nine To Five Workday) and their cash contest (Phrase That Pays). Not all radio stations do that. All radio stations do things _like_ that.
That's not very unique. There's at least a station in every single market that does both. And for many, many years, too. Not very original.
It's no different than the FOX Broadcasting Co entry displaying a current program lineup and list of previous and current network slogans. It's not encouraging me to watch, it's just an accurate description of what they're doing.
Apples and oranges. And slogans are encouraged. The stuff you added was cruft.
If all radio station entries were like WMYX is now, they would have a vague history and format description. Radio stations are more than that, and deserve something more.
You should take a look at other radio articles. In addition, check out the Radio Project. In addition, I suggest you also register, lest someone assume that your very first edits were vandalism.--Fightingirish 05:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WMYX (con't)

The stuff you keep re-adding does not belong there. Granted, I understand you want to fill out the articles a bit more, but there's a difference between quantity and quality. Adding the generic catchphrases and ordinary gimmicks done by a station is not quality. I am all for adding stuff to articles. However, I am not in favor of adding stuff just for the sake of adding it. The stuff you keep adding does not provide anything worthwhile to the article.

Furthermore, what you added probably violates a few Wikipedia standards. First off, you have provided no outside citations. This seems like original research. Plus, spam should be kept out of articles, and that includes advertising. The Mountain Dew article you cited is different, as slogans and advertising campaigns for major companies are much more notable than a radio station in Milwaukee.

In addition, it appears that the WMYX-FM article is the only one you've ever worked on. Do you work there? If so, be careful about conflict of interest.

For right now, I will not revert you. I may add a cite tag for verification of information, but for now, I have inquired at the Radio Stations Project page, to get a consensus from the people there, who work hard to make decent radio station articles (which there are very few of, since many are bogged down in advertising, spam, useless or incorrect information and edit wars). In the meantime, you should consider what is really noteworthy enough to put in these types of articles.

In addition, take a look at these pages:

Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
Wikipedia:Reliable sources
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
Wikipedia:No original research
Wikipedia:Spam

--Fightingirish 15:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good catch

[The vandalism you fixed stayed there for nearly eleven months. I'm a bit embarrassed that I didn't catch it because I did a bit of cleanup on the article last Christmas. Graham87 04:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)