Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio

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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
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Welcome to the Radio WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of radio.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

The goal of this project is to create, expand, and maintain wikipedia articles related to radio, including radio propagation and reception, radio programming, radio personalities, the business of radio, and internet radio. The parent project WikiProject Telecommunications covers the categories Communication engineering and Telecommunications with subcategories. The descendant project WikiProject Radio Stations covers the creation and maintenance of pages for specific radio stations, WikiProject Amateur radio works with the field of amateur radio, and WikiProject Podcasting handles podcasts.

Scope

This project intends to include within its scope the science of radio, radio programming, radio personalities, the business of radio, and internet radio, as well as any other radio-related matters not covered by any existing projects. All of these articles should be included in the Category:Radio.

[edit] Guidelines

Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style for information on how to format articles.

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for WikiProject Radio:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Articles needing attention: Collaboration of the Week: Create: Missing years in radio Review: American Top 40 Expand: Portal:Radio Copyedit: List to prose: Too much trivia:

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

AAARanger5 (talk · contribs) - Five years as a discjockey (1969-1974) in Alaska, Ohio, and North Carolina.
Badbilltucker (talk · contribs) - primary directly project-related activity
Bennyboyz3000 (talk · contribs) - CB radio, scanning, public service radio
Zaphod Beeblebrox (talk · contribs)
Peter Ellis (talk · contribs) - a volunteer on community radio station Radio 1RPH in Australia
PhantomS (talk · contribs) - specifically interested in old-time radio
Mysid (talk · contribs) - shortwave listener, interested in pirates, too.
PrinceAl (talk · contribs) - Would be interested in OTR
AxG (talk · contribs) - Local stations.
DoctorWho42 (talk · contribs) - sci-fi radio shows, &c.
BillyMassie (talk · contribs) - Amateur Radio, LPFM.
Somitho (talk · contribs) - Internet Radio, Satellite Radio
Jacketed (talk · contribs) - Community Radio volunteer and promoter in Australia
Jeep15603 (talk) - Can offer historical information on these stations: WELV, WDRE, WAVZ, WELI, WQQW, WSUS (done).
Eric O. Costello (talk · contribs) - History of the NBC Blue Network, 1921-1945
Davidpk212 - Science man (-:
DCGeist (talk · contribs)—industrial history and practices
JPG-GR (talk · contribs)
Pepso2 (talk · contribs) - Vintage radio programs and music programming on early radio
Rangerbill (talk · contribs) - Ranger Bill
ISD (talk · contribs) - Comedy radio shows, mainly British, and The Archers.
ronbo76 (talk · contribs) - grew up listening to the radio. This one's for you, Dad!
Morenooso (talk · contribs) - invited to join because I remembered the Fireside chats.
SnapManDude (talk · contribs) - mainly interested in old-time radio, particularly in the Midwest (The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen), as well as NPR
Marbles (talk · contribs) - mainly ILR in the UK, focused around Marcher Group, EMAP and GCap radio service.
Sarasdano (talk · contribs) - Old-Time Radio
Tofilmfan (talk · contribs) - The Howard Stern Show, Bubba the Love Sponge, Satellite radio.
Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) - I love Old Time Radio
Gandalf's hat (talk · contribs) - I am pretty much obsessed with NPR...
Trampton (talk · contribs) - A mix of every station, but mostly KVIL and KDMX
Mystic Pixel (talk · contribs) - Amateur Radio, College Radio, engineering aspects thereof
MissKriss (talk · contribs) - Continuing the prominence of traditional R&B music on urban radio
Tghe-retford (talk · contribs) - UK, jazz and digital radio services. Also a member of the radio stations WikiProject and founder of the UK Radio task force.
SubNuke (talk · contribs) - Old Time Radio
Mange01 (talk · contribs) - Working on radio resource management, OFDM, Radio propagation models and computer networks
DJ-Jim (talk · contribs) - love so many things about radio I founded WhiStle Radio, a community radio station in Canada.
Tweety21 (talk · contribs)
JA.Davidson (talk · contribs) - Discovery of radio, Amateur Radio, Broadcast technology
Kathleen.wright5 (talk · contribs) - International Broadcasting, Radio in Australia
MarkPos (talk · contribs) - Working in satellite and radiocommunications, especially radio regulation, spectrum management, frequency coordination, interference and licencing.
Philip Laurence (talk · contribs) - cleanup and article centralization
Sepia tone - Wireless communication, signal processing, software defined radio
Wavelengths (talk · contribs) - Radio Engineering
LuckyLouie (talk · contribs) - Radio history.
Milonica - Mainly radio stations and DXing info. Station changes, etc.
User:Kootenayvolcano Community Radio in Canada
User:Accounting4Taste - OTR, specifically detective/crime-related series characters
User:Barrycarlyon - Student Radio in the UK
User:Jomunro - Radio4/BBC 7, especially comedy
User:Tracy Justus - Radio monitoring hobbyist (freqofnature.com) and professional wireless network engineer.

All users should feel free to add

This user is a member of WikiProject Radio.

to their user pages.

[edit] Departments

Assessment - our assessment department.
Peer Review - our peer review department.

[edit] Task forces

UK Radio - UK radio industry and stations task force.

[edit] Portals

Portal:Radio

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured articles

Articles on radio-related subjects, which are not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) - the original sci-fi comedy series that later lead to a series of novels.
Mutual Broadcasting System - history of MBS from its founding in 1934 to its demise in 1999

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Good articles

The following articles have been recognized as good articles.

Blue Network -- exploring the history of the predecessor of ABC, as it existed 1927-1945
Dad's Army -- a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War
Digital radio in the United Kingdom
The Museum of Curiosity -- a British panel game on BBC Radio 4, acting as a spinoff to the TV series QI.
Nebulous -- post apocalyptic science fiction comedy on BBC Radio 4
Nikola Tesla -- biographical article

[edit] New articles

Lance Sieveking, early BBC radio drama pioneer
Aberdeen Radio, the BBC's shortlived shortwave station (1923-1929)
Our Brave Boys -- a British Comedy set in the Ministry of Defence during Tony Blair's Premiership

Please feel free to list your new radio-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Announcement

Place before the start of an article.

{{Future radio}} - Article contains information about a future radio show, station, or network.
{{Future UK radio station}} - Article contains information about a future radio station in the UK.

[edit] External link

{{InternetArchiveOTR}} - Link to the Internet Archive's public domain holdings for an old-time radio show.
{{rhof}} - Link to inductee entry at the Radio Hall of Fame.

[edit] Infobox

{{Infobox Radio show}} - Infobox for a radio show.
{{Infobox Radio presenter}} - Infobox for a radio host.
{{Infobox Radio station}} - Infobox for a radio station.
{{Infobox Broadcasting network}} - Infobox for a radio or television network.

[edit] Talk page

{{WikiProject Radio}} - Project Notice. Place on the talk page of articles related to this project.

[edit] User page

{{User WikiProject Radio}} - User template. Place on user page to show support for this project.

[edit] Stubs

{{radio-stub}} - Stub notice for radio articles. To be added to the bottom of the article page.

{{radio-comm-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about radio communications. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
- {{Wireless-stub}} - Stub notice for stub articles about wireless technologies, wireless service providers, and cell phones. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
- {{Amateur-radio-stub}} - Stub notice for amateur radio articles. To be added to the bottom of the article page.

{{radio-broadcast-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about radio broadcasting. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
- {{BBC-radio-stub}} - Stub notice for BBC articles. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
- {{radio-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about people in the radio industry. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
  - {{UK-radio-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about British people in the radio industry. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
  - {{US-radio-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about United States people in the radio industry. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
- {{radio-show-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about radio shows or programs. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
  - {{UK-radio-show-stub}} - Stub notice for aticles about UK radio shows or programs. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
  - {{US-radio-show-stub}} - Stub notice for aticles about US radio shows or programs. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
- {{radio-station-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about radio stations. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
  - {{Australia-radio-station-stub}} - Stub notice for atticles about Australian radio stations. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
  - {{Canada-radio-station-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Canadian radio stations. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
    - There also exist stubs for each province and territory such as {{BritishColumbia-radio-station-stub}}.
  - {{Mexico-radio-station-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about Mexican radio stations. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
  - {{UK-radio-station-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about radio stations in the United Kingdom. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
  - {{US-radio-station-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about radio stations in the United States. To be added to the bottom of the article page.
    - There also exist stub templates for each state, such as {{NorthCarolina-radio-station-stub}}.