Talk:WAPS (FM)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:23, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

WAPS (FM) → WAPS — "WAPS" is official callsign for this radio station per FCC online database. As such, "WAPS" should be the article title per WP:RADIONAMING. Blcklght8 (talk) 23:33, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

* WAPS → WAPS (FM)


 * Correction as to avoid redirect onto itself. Blcklght8 (talk) 02:24, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * This article should be renamed. FCC lists the station as WAPS รัก-ไทย (talk) 07:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Or WAPS (disambiguation) to WAPS? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:16, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree, article should be WAPS. FCC does not show -FM suffix. --milonica (talk) 17:57, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * To reiterate, "WAPS" is the official callsign listed w/ the FCC online database; per WP:RADIONAMING, "WAPS" should be the title of this article. I say "should" because there are three other articles on WAPS (disambiguation) which use the letters "WAPS" as an abbreviation (note: I moved WAPS to WAPS (disambiguation) prior to this request to free "WAPS").  Still, "WAPS" should still be the title of this article; a simple redirect template placed at the top of this article -- should it be renamed to "WAPS" -- could easily redirect those who reach this article in error.  The redirect could read something like: "This article is about the radio station in Akron, Ohio.  For other uses of WAPS, see WAPS (disambiguation)."  Blcklght8 (talk) 19:11, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * AGREE that the article should be titled WAPS--really there is no need for discussion! That is the official name of the station. รัก-ไทย (talk) 04:26, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Strongly disagree as WP:RADIONAMING is quite clear on this point: "If more than one article has the same base call sign, or if an acronym or some other common usage shares that call sign: a disambiguation page should be created at the base call sign." To do otherwise would disrupt hundreds (perhaps thousands) of articles involving AM/FM combos, radio/TV duopolies, and all of the other combinations that led to this carefully crafted naming document. While I respect the proposer's several days of service as an editor, the policy being touted to justify this move does not say what he claims. - Dravecky (talk) 11:46, 6 January 2011 (UTC)


 * NOTE: The nominator, User:Blcklght8, is a a sock puppet of Sudafedfiend8 and has been blocked indefinitely. - Dravecky (talk) 06:32, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Multiple Issues
Among the article's many issues: Some of this is a shame because the History section has good material, but unfortunately there's no way of knowing whether it's true. Allreet (talk) 05:05, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The general tone in sections is promotional, e.g., History and Rock & Recovery. The Advert template covers this, but a POV template could have been applied as well.
 * The citations are insufficient in number in terms of the amount of material, inadequate in terms of the information they provide, e.g., Mondotimes, and unreliable in being self-referential, e.g., Kidjam, Rock & Recovery and WAPS/The Summit. To improve, independent published sources must be used, e.g., the Paste magazine cite (the article's only reliable source).
 * Regarding paraphrasing, the section that includes the Mondotimes citation begins with a verbatim sentence from the source. I suspect this true elsewhere because of the tone issue, but can't verify this for lack of citations.

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