User talk:Kittie321

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Wikipedia cannot just say that a radio station's format is "rock", as there are several different kinds of rock formats that different "rock" stations can have: some are "active rock", some are "mainstream rock", some are "classic rock", some are "modern rock", and on and so forth. So we have to be specific about which of those different rock formats a station actually uses, and cannot just say "rock" without clarifying which particular kind of rock. And what a station calls itself in a Facebook post is not definitive of what its format is, because (a) a Facebook post is not a verifiable or reliable source, and (b) stations don't necessarily use the standard format names in their public marketing (an adult hits station, for example, is far more likely to promote itself to the public as "hits of the 70s, 80s and 90s" than as "adult hits", but that fact doesn't make "hits of the 70s, 80s and 90s" the correct name of its format.) A station's format in a Wikipedia article is dictated by the standard industry term for the specific type of rock music that its playlist actually demonstrates, not by the station's own marketing department just using the generic undifferentiated "rock" in its public relations materials. Bearcat (talk) 15:21, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Saying they are "Active Rock" is misleading. For example if a station plays a Bob Marley song, it doesn't make them a reggae station. This stations playlist is like 2 current radio stations combined in Ottawa, Chez 106.1 and Live 88.5 but with an active rock song thrown in maybe every hour.
 * "Active rock" is not a genre that individual songs belong to; it's a method of organizing playlists of songs. A mix of classic rock and modern rock tracks — or, to put it in Ottawa terms, a mix of CHEZ 106 and Live 88.5 just like what you just said — is what "active rock" means. Bearcat (talk) 22:46, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Since you are so familiar with Wikipedia, maybe you should go look up the meaning of "active rock" and change the Wikipedia definition of "active rock", to what you think it is. Here's what it says... "Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. "Active rock plays the popularly demanded new and recent hard rock and heavy metal and some alternative rock songs."
 * If you think a very recent and unsourced rewrite of the active rock article by an anonymous IP whose edit history otherwise consisted entirely of vandalism trumps what real sources say active rock means, then you're welcome to your delusions. But that won't make them fact. Bearcat (talk) 05:46, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

The definition, before you edited it, seemed to match everyone else's description of active rock, such as the "active rock charts". But you seem to know more than everyone else, we must all be delusional! Active rock is music that is heavier than alternative rock and lighter than metal from bands that are current. In other words, current Hard Rock. Thanks to you, TIL: Classic Rock is also Active Rock. Frankly this dispute is going on far longer than I already wanted it to. But I'll keep you in mind when I need someone to rewrite the meaning of something for me.
 * You're misunderstanding what I said. Active rock is not only current music; the active rock charts will only include current singles, true, but that's because the entire concept of "charting" is about current music and not about older stuff. But that fact does not mean that an active rock station will only play currently charting singles and never touch "recurrent" or older songs — only the new songs will count toward the genre charts, but older songs can and will still get played. And the definition did not "match everybody else's description of active rock" before I edited it; the very fact that I didn't insert a single word into the article that wasn't exactly reflected by a reliable source definition of what "active rock" means demonstrates that I stuck exactly to how the term is defined in real sources. The old description was the one not backed up by a reliable source description; the current one is. Bearcat (talk) 21:40, 22 September 2016 (UTC)