User talk:Scrabbleship

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[edit] Transportation in New York City

Hello Scrabbleship - I noticed your work on transport-related articles in New York. Transportation in New York City has been nominated to be a US Collaboration of the Week. Check it out and if you like it, please vote for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:USCOTW We need all the votes we can get! Wv235 22:58, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US Collaboration of the week

You have voted for Transportation in New York City on WP:USCOTW. It was selected to be this week's winner. You are invited to contribute to improve Transportation in New York City in any way you can. Cmadler 13:35, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

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[edit] Capital District WikiProject?

If you want other people to help with the writing of Capital District-related articles as well, maybe you should consider starting a Capital District WikiProject. :) --Kuroki Mio 2006 00:27, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] WAWB-TV 65 Page

Yo, What's up Scrabbleship,

This is Time1, you can merge the WAWB-TV 65 page to the WUPV page and I promise I won't restore this page again.--Time1 13:37, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WAMC

Wouldn't a proper page move be better than a cut and paste move on this article (in order to preserve the history)? I will merge the page histories later when I have some time. Have you done this before, let me know and I will merge those too. Feel free to contact me anytime you need help, I can delete the target article for you when necessary to effect a proper move :-). NoSeptember talk 22:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I tried doing a proper page move, however at the time I thought the existance of "WAMC" being a disambiguation page for "WAMC (Albany)" would not work. Right after I did the cut-and-paste, I realized my simple error. I'll do the switcharoo at some point so that the history of "WAMC (Albany)" becomes that of "WAMC". Scrabbleship 23:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I took care of it. The North Carolina station is in Goldsboro (see List of radio stations in North Carolina by city) but has no article. You are right that WAMC should not be a redirect just because of a minor station. NoSeptember talk 00:08, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WLNS

Where are you from? Obviously not Mid-Michigan as I saw the changeover from WJIM-TV to WLNS. Steelbeard1 01:51, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Before this gets out of hand, here is the text of a New York Times summary dated July 20, 1983 announcing Gross's sale of WJIM-TV to Universal Communications aka Unicom aka Bakke Communications (all one in the same).

The Universal Communications Corporation has agreed to buy two television stations - WJIM-TV in Lansing, Mich., and WKBT-TV in La-Crosse, Wis. - from Gross Telecasting Inc. of Lansing for $45 million in cash.

Universal, which is owned by Forstmann Little & Company and a former CBS president, John D. Backe, announced previously that it plans to become a broad-based communications company. Recently it acquired WRGB-TV of Schenectady, N.Y., from the General Electric Broadcasting Company.

As the saying goes, six of one, half dozen of the other. My apologies Scrabbleship 03:21, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

How do you explain the on-air name of WLNS's owner being Backe Communications? Please mention Backe or face having the section revised again. Steelbeard1 11:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Albany, NY Arbitron Ratings

I noticed that you removed these ratings and didn't see an explanation on Talk or the edit summary. Without that info, it's difficult to tell if an editor is vandalizing pages. Antonrojo 03:48, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I had neglected to put a reason for their deletion, and I apologize. I did it for a variety of reasons namely that new ratings will arrive in a few weeks and that having them on that page is both very atypical and clunky. Also, it may be slightly risky to put such ratings in an article given that several years back Arbitron went on a streak where threatening letters were sent to several message boards which went as extreme as barring the posting of statements such as "WXXX is #3". I should also mention that that policy was both selective enforcement and that I am vhemently against such restrictive policies.
In short, it was clunky and too much information and not having them in the main Albany, New York article flows better. Anyone who has spent considerable time in Albany proper (or lived out of town and heard the Andrew Wilkow take on the city) knows that there is no way that WGNA-FM is #1 in the city limits. Thanks again. Scrabbleship 11:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

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I know this is a bot posting, but for those who are reading those pictures are my own work. I merely had neglected to put in a licence and the problem has since been fixed.Scrabbleship 00:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] M6 Triplets

I never knew that the M6's had automated announcements; were they initially disabled, or just plain never worked? Keo 06:55, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] CW Tennessee template

I added the UPN and WB links to the CW and MyNetworkTV templates because at least for the next two weeks, those networks still exist. However, whether they are listed or not is a trivial matter. Lee359 13:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Erin Esurance

There was an on-going discussion regarding whether Erin Esurance should be merged with the Esurance article. The flow of the relatively young debate seemed to favor keeping the articles separate, but I see that you have combined the pages today. Please show me where a consensus was reached regarding this issue, or if you acted unilateraly, please show me the specific Wikipedia policy regarding the handling of marketing mascots and/or any other Wikipedia policies that may have influenced your decision. Thank you. -Ntmg05 02:35, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belo Corporation

Hello. I notice that you've done a reversion of an attempt to trim the {{Belo Corporation}} template. I'm not going to do any reversions as to avoid an edit war, but it'd be nice if this template could be trimmed somehow. perhaps a single-row with vertical columns for each broadcasting company would be a nice way to organize. drumguy8800 C T 07:43, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:NYC Metro Radio Markets

Hi there. I agree that this template was overkill and started to clutter the templates themselves (I went ahead and removed it). On that note, I'm also thinking about merging a few of the templates under Template:New York FM and Template:New York AM (i.e. Long Island, Middlesex, Stamford, and Poughkeepsie) with the separate markets represented. The person who did the Template:SF FM did it in a nice way so that we don't end up with San Jose and San Francisco colliding.

My mission started out looking for hard to find templates (i.e. Template:F/H/V FM, which was Fresno, CA). As a result, I put them on a list under List of United States radio markets so that people would know where these templates were because I couldn't find them myself to begin with.

Anyway, I hope I have not frustrated you. (I probably did as well as several other people) By the way, I liked the way you redid the Long Island and Riverhead templates.

Best regards,

--Jjc104 02:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metro-North Railroad

I've made the changes you've suggested; it proved easiest to semi-split the New Haven into the component branches. If you could take a look at the present state of things and advise any other changes I'd be most appreciative. Sorry for the inconvenience. Mackensen (talk) 06:26, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WTMM and WEEV

Thanks of taking care of this for me. I wasn't exactly sure how the new wikilinking would work with the change in station frequency and callsign. Jasebasketball 19:35,2 January 2007(UTC)

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[edit] Broome County Transit

I've made a few minor changes. Are you a bus buff? I am and worked in transit (not BCT) for many years. Cheesebox 03:06, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] CDTA

Hi. I want to clean up and delete some of the trivia - esp. the section on the retired fleet. Is it really necessary? Bearian 01:05, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


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