Talk:WXIA-TV personalities

Significant trimming of Former Staff section
I just cut everyone out of the alumni section that does not have their own Wikipedia page or have a reference to establish their notability. This is the current consensus procedure, based on discussions at WP:WikiProject Television Stations and at [the Village Pump]. The rationales are as follows:
 * 1) Most importantly, per WP:NOT, 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) Secondarily, per WP:V, we cannot include information that is not verifiable and sourced. I'm not certain how it would even be possible to source this information.
 * 3) Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

All of the people with their own pages are notable enough to appear on this list. However, if you look at pages 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 info, 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). Qwyrxian (talk) 03:46, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Merger
Since this article is now much smaller, I think merging into the main article makes sense. I'll check back in a little while to see if there's any disagreement. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:47, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge: It probably makes more sense for the on-air staff to be displayed within the main article and not in a separate article. Plus, I don't think the WXIA article is large enough for the need of a split in the first place. If it is merged though, it should be placed as a subsection of the "News operation" section. (TVtonightOKC (talk) 07:42, 30 August 2010 (UTC))


 * As I see no objections, I'm going to go ahead and complete the merge now. Qwyrxian (talk) 04:27, 29 September 2010 (UTC)