Talk:WIBW-TV

Userbox
If you watch WIBW-TV for your news source, here is the userbox you can display on your user page if you'd like. The code is User WIBW-TV Corkythehornetfan(talk) 23:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

And also, for Its programming that it carries, Like MeTV and H&I. LooneyTraceYT (talk) 16:46, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

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) 04:05, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

News team
I just put back the news team in the article because someone had removed it without explaining why. Most articles about a news station that I have seen show the news team. This one had a source to back it up, so there is no reason to remove it. If there was discussion I wasn't aware about, please let me know, but other than that, I believe it should stay. Thanks,  Corkythehornetfan  Talk 01:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * This has been discussed multiple times at WP:TVS including Staff List redux. What other article have or do not have is not relevant that just might mean that editor that know of the discussions banning this extraneous information have not visited the page or have been reverted like you have improperly done. Primary source is not sufficient for inclusion in an article. Spshu (talk) 14:59, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1. There doesn't appear to be an actual consensus on that.  2. That's no reason to violate WP:3RR, which you have done. LionMans Account (talk) 15:02, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Look, it says "Redux" as they indicate they know it was brought up before. So this was turned down several times before. Yes, but you violated WP:BRD as Corkythehornetfan was reverted, you didn't discuss your actions, while I did but you continued to revert. So good luck with that 3RR report on me.
 * They also violated WP:NOTDIR.

Here are some more discussion about not just scraping the list of the news staff off the stations' website:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television_Stations/Archive_9
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television_Stations/Archive_10
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television Stations/Archive 9
 * There were probably more, you can go find them. Spshu (talk) 19:01, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment - Lists of people must meet the criteria listed at WP:LISTPEOPLE. This isn't the first station article this has been discussed on, and articles have beenprotected to prevent these additions or the editors in question blocked when they persistently continue to reinsert inappropriate material. If a name is included in the article in this way, it has to show that it's relevant to the subject by meeting WP:LISTPEOPLE. Just because a station lists its employees doesn't mean Wikipedia needs to as well, and other station articles needing similar cleanup doesn't mean this one doesn't need to be cleaned up, because whenever it's actually discussed on a station article, the end result is the same; the names that don't meet WP:LISTPEOPLE are removed. - Aoidh (talk) 00:16, 19 August 2014 (UTC)