User talk:NetworkedTogether/Networked Together's sandbox

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Suggestions from Kossmatt (talk) 00:35, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

The article so far looks great! You have a lot of important information already posted. The writing does look wikified! I looked up a few different articles that may be of help to you:

27 Howard L.J. 859 (1984) FCC and Its Fluctuating Commitment to Minority Ownership of Broadcast Facilities, The; Honig, David

2003 L. Rev. M.S.U.-D.C.L. 671 (2003)Regulatory Reform: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the FCC Media Ownership Rules; Owen, Bruce M. - this has some information about the different cases that have happen thus far.

Support For FCC Minority Ownership Policy: How Broadcast Station Owner Race Or Ethnicity Affects News And Public Affairs Programming Diversity DOI: 10.1207/S15326926CLP0601_02 Laurie Mason, Christine M. Bachen & Stephanie L. Craft pages 37-73. The abstract has the article having a lot of information about minorities and broadcasting.

Brandon's Edits
You have a lot of information on your topic. I think it would be helpful if it was a little more wikified and less wordy. The following paragraph is directly from your sandbox followed by that same paragraph but edited.

Background 2nd Paragraph, Original
Since the FCC controlled the regulation of information that was broadcast over the airwaves or traveled by wire, this included granting licenses for television, radio, cable, and media outlets. For many years licenses were granted freely, but rather arbitrarily to organizations who were able to impress the commissioners with their ability to maximize the potential of the bandwidth they were granted. Also the FCC would give consideration to applicants by “broadcasting content, the limits placed on explicit program regulation by the U.S. Constitution,...the economic importance,” and following the goals of the FCC.

Background 2nd Paragraph, Edited
The FCC originally regulated licenses for television, radio, cable, and media outlets (this sentence is somewhat vague) [Wireless Spectrum]. Licenses were granted freely to organizations who were able to demonstrate their ability to maximize the potential of the bandwidth they were granted (this seems to be a biased statement when you say 'arbitrarily'). Consideration was given to applicants by “broadcasting content, the limits placed on explicit program regulation by the U.S. Constitution,...the economic importance,” and following the goals of the FCC (this sentence is confusing, the quote doesn't seem to fit).

B Comments on Wikification
The content is all their in the article and you have the appropriate sources. I don't think using terms such as 'arbitrary' or discussing 'bias' goes in the background section. I think you may want to present all the information on the topic and then create a section that 'supports' one viewpoint and one that 'supports' the other side of that viewpoint.

B articles
In your references section you could probably just use one cite for the "communications act of 1934". Oh, actually you have multiple cites for all of your articles. In your references section you just need one instance of the article you are referring too and then when you do a within text citation to that reference just use the same number.

Does minority ownership rules imply that people who are in the minority are somehow socially, economically, racially, or ethnically disadvantaged? There seems to be a large amount of 'racial' and 'economic' arguments appearing in the literature. This is not a direct example, but discusses the ethics of minority ownership of media.

John O. Omachonu & Kevin Healey. 2009. Media Concentration and Minority Ownership: The Intersection of Ellul and Habermas. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08900520902885194

Minority ownership could also be thought of as a minority of organizations that own the majority of the network. Another possibility to think about and read up on is 'state' ownership of telecommunications. The following article may be useful in understanding a balance between telecommunications ownership in private and public sectors.

Johannes M. Bauer. 2010. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1837320.

Brandonbrooks1 (talk) 00:41, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Good start
Just wanted to say good start, only note is to remember when you move the article to the mainspace in Wikipedia is that the class template should only be on the talk page - not the article page. Cheers Chris/Epistemophiliac (talk) 17:01, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

I agree with Chris. Love the sourcing! The more the better. Make sure you look at the Wikipedia style guides. OR just take a look at the featured articles. Chlopeck (talk) 15:02, 15 March 2012 (UTC)