Talk:KMID (TV)

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material
Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:


 * 1) WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information." As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.
 * 2) As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
 * 3) WP:Source list tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
 * 4) Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 21:29, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Similarity of logo to LIN TV Corporation logos
Once again I have removed the paragraph on the similarity of the KMID logo with other logos. When it was reinserted it was stated that the similarity of the logos is no more an opinion than "New Zealand is an island country". That statement is a fact and can be shown to be true with reliable sources if someone challenged it. This time the fact tag was removed, it was stated that, " WP itself as source." Wikipedia can not be a source for other articles in Wikipedia, see WP:CIRCULAR. I once again removed it and the burden is on anyone who readds it to provide a reliable source. GB fan 15:24, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

The following content was removed from the History section on 24 February 2012.
 * The KMID logo is very similar to the logo used by WDTN, the NBC affiliate in Dayton, OH.

The statement was modified on 25 Febrary 2012.
 * The KMID logo is very similar to the logo used by WDTN, the NBC affiliate in Dayton, Ohio.

This statement was also removed.

Per a question posed at "Talk:WDTN":

LIN TV stations WDTN in Dayton, WPRI-TV and WNAC-TV, both in Providence, RI, and former LIN station WAND in Decatur/Springfield/Champaign/Urbana, IL, use logos similar to KMID's. The shade of red used in the oval is different. The numeral "2" used in KMID's logo appears to be virtually identical to the "2" used by WDTN.

My operating theory is, as former logos are retired, LIN either does or did employ common station branding. Can this theory be proved or disproved? If it was LIN policy, was it only applied to certain stations?

KMID has no apparent connection to the LIN stations. Is its similar logo just a coincidence or is it an example of reusing a public domain logo?

If anyone has any insight on this and/or sources proving or disproving, please let me know here. Thanks. --Chaswmsday (talk) 14:39, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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