Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio/UK Radio

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

[edit] BBC digital radio stations renamed

According to a poster on Digital Spy (source) and I can confirm with my new Digital Radio, the BBC have renamed their digital radio stations. Though their official sites don't show any change. If the BBC confirm the name changes on their official sites, the articles will need to be moved to their new names. --tgheretford (talk) 22:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Logo's being deleted from articles

Just to make everyone aware, I don't know how far this is going, but I have noticed a number of logos are being nominated for deletion because of the lack of a non-free media rationale guideline (a.k.a. fair use rationale). Might be worth checking logos within articles and making sure a rationale is added to articles. If there isn't one, then one should be added a.s.a.p. --tgheretford (talk) 12:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Important warning: fair use rationales for radio logos

Be warned that fair use rationales with have got be full, complete and watertight. I have had a contribution speedily deleted under CSD#I6 under WP:NFCC#10c, even though it had this rationale, which I thought would cover it. I have also had an official warning for the text below on the aforementioned contribution:

  1. It is a logo of a pay television service which cannot be described in prose;
  2. There is no free alternative available;
  3. The logos inclusion to the article is paramount as it was the subject of a major advertising campaign;
  4. It is a low resolution image of the logo;
  5. It is a historically significant episode and logo of British Sky Broadcasting.

I have not come across a radio logo image which has as much as this, and it is likely that all of these are likely for deletion. If you have updated anything, make sure it is watertight and complete, and add as much information as you can. Seems paranoia about copyright is creeping in. --tgheretford (talk) 10:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I fixed that rationale see [1] you had the wrong page listed in the rationale. βcommand 14:14, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: Tim Finlay

Tim Finlay (via WP:PROD on 2007-12-14)

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 16:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK Local Radio Stations under danger from WP:CSD#A7

I have noticed that a number of local radio stations were removed from the list of UK radio stations after they were deleted. I checked one (a nearby local station) called Rother FM and I noticed that the article was deleted under speedy deletion criteria A7, whereas other stations with simliar notability and coverage (ie. Trax FM, Lincs FM, Dearne FM and even greater coverage stations such as Hallam FM and BBC Radio Sheffield are untouched. I fear that now all the local radio articles could be under threat of being speedily deleted under A7, after all, if a number of stations similar to the ones which still exist are being deleted, surely the rest are now under threat (Wikipedia being neutral and all that)? ----tgheretford (talk) 13:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] DAB Ensembles

I've noticed the wording on the first paragraph of these tends to be rather clumsy as it tries to fit the frequencies, areas, transmitters, launch dates and other text into it - I feel this information could be better presented in an infobox format - to this end I have created a sample infobox and page in my user space - User_talk:KevS/DAB. Does anyone think It would be a good idea for all UK multiplexes to adopt this format, and if so has anyone got any suggestions on any changes that should be considered before making the proper info box? (and how to go around doing that properly).

Also, I have followed the example on the Digital One page of presenting the stations in a tabular format as it looks neater, this is currently on the NOW Leicester and NOW Nottingham pages, does anyone have any suggestions of changes that could be made to these before expanding them to the other ~20 multiplexes? KevS (talk) 00:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I think everything looks fine and I would approve the go ahead of this idea. Just one thing I could think of before the infobox goes live is the addition of a closed date field, just in case a multiplex is ever taken off the air for whatever reason. I think these changes could be applied to all articles.
As far as the tabular tables go, I did the original table on the Digital One ensemble, we could add protection level information into the tables, but it doesn't need to be too technical for Wikipedia (ie. Wikipedia is not a directory) and anyway, the Wohnort DAB site provides a good database of individual ensembles which we can link to within the articles. ----tgheretford (talk) 14:07, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adding Categories

I'd like to suggest we add the

[–] Student radio in the United Kingdom

category to our category list

Barry Carlyon (talk) 19:33, 3 April 2008 (UTC)