Talk:S4C Closedown Screen

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"S4C is the only existing terrestrial channel which regularly signs off broadcast (closedown) in the early morning hours (generally between 04.00 and 06.00)." What? The only one in the world? I find that unlikely. Only one in Britain? Cite needed. And is this only about the terrestrial version of S4C? S4C Digidol has completely different running hours. I get all this, but I get it around midday.

I suspect the title should be "S4C closedown screen", but more to the point, what is encyclopaedic about any of this? Why can't the salient parts (...) be in the S4C article?

Telsa (talk) 15:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Someone's changed it to Great Britain, but does BBC Two count? They show Pages from Ceefax during downtime. BillyH 02:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

AUTHOR OF ARTICLE (Cameron 13:30, November 3rd 2006): Firstly I would like to refer to Telsa's comment: "I suspect the title should be "S4C closedown screen"" but the name of article was always "S4C Closedown Screen" so what exactly do you mean?

I initially wrote this article, to explain what happens when S4C closes down during the night. Although BBC 2 plays ceefax pages during down-time, S4C is the only example of a terrestrial channel in Britain, which signs off broadcast (goes black) and bbc two does not do this.

The purpose of the article is to show how a British terrestrial channel closes down, (S4C being the only existing example left in Britain). This article is only linked to the S4C article because of its relevance with it. It is also a link to ITV Nightscreen which is a totally different service.

The S4C main article is a brief explanation of the channel as a whole, and going into so much detail about this one service would not be relevant on the S4C main article. Diolch am eich sylwadau!


 * Hiya, Cameron, welcome to Wikipedia, and diolch am yr esboniad! (You might want to consider getting an account, btw: it makes it very much easier to keep up with what happens to pages you're interested in. Even if you don't, typing four tildes in a row -- ~ -- will produce your IP address and the current date and time, which saves some effort of typing.) Thanks for the explanation. I think I understand now. So the fact that it's S4C is entirely incidental, and the article is more about the closedown? I wonder if there might be a better name for it, then? (I can't think of one, but my knowledge of television is largely at the "turn it on, watch it" level.)


 * To answer your question, the difference between "Closedown Screen" and "closedown screen" is purely the capitalisation! Wikipedia is case-sensitive, and thinks that "Firstword secondword thirdword" and "Firstword Secondword Thirdword" are different. The policy is at WP:NAME but the summary is that it's not necessary to capitalise all the words in an article title.


 * Telsa (talk) 18:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

How should I change the title to lower case, and what is the purpose of an account? -- 81.129.88.83 21:11, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * To edit an article title, you would move the page from one title to the other (WP:MOVE). The purpose of an account: well, actually, these days it seems that only registered users (account-holders) can move pages! (Although obviously, you could always ask me or someone else to move the page.) The other big advantage, as I said, is the watchlist facility: when you are logged in, you can see a list of changes to pages that are on your watchlist. A more formal "why create an account?" list is on this page: Tutorial (Registration). Telsa (talk) 07:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)