Talk:KPDO

Early 2012 claims reverted

I've made the following changes, which should not be undone without verifiable, reliable sources — not merely promises of future sources:

• As required by WP:BLP, I have removed unsourced claims that still-living people's actions were "later recognised as a rumor and slander". (Note that the old claim, which mentioned some kind of settlement but didn't say who did what, at least sourced the San Jose Mercury News. The standard on Wikipedia is verifiability, not an editor's idea of "truth".)
• Again, as is mandatory per WP:BLP, I am removing the same anonymous editor's claims that there was a lawsuit: it names 2 living people and an unspecified majority ("several") of 5 other living people, and still has no reliable sources. Just out of curiosity, I've looked at the San Mateo County, California court case listings at [1], and found no cases in 2011 or January 2012, pending or dropped, involving old board member names Daniel Roberts or Margaret Celeste Worden; new board member names Catherine Peery, David Quick, Tood Urick, or Shannon Webb; or Pescadero Public Radio Service. There is a family court case involving a Philip J. Castle; I can't tell if that's the same Phil Castle as the new KPDO board member (whose middle initial I haven't discovered), but the case is clearly unrelated anyway.
• I'm reverting the external website links back to pescaderoradio.org, the domain of someone with official control of the station, thus verifiable, instead of kpdo.org, a Domains by Proxy domain with a blatant shopping website for a no-longer-related entity, and no evidence of anything "pending" other than unsourced anonymous claims. PescaderoRadio.org is registered to Philip Castle, listed as new treasurer in August 2011 FCC filing BTCED-20110912AAM, exhibit 6 — application available here. KPDO.org is hidden behind Domains by Proxy. First, that's highly suspect: Station licensees, whose identity and owners are a matter of public record as in the FCC filing above, have no reason to use Domains by Proxy registration for their "official" website. Second, the secret domain is used for funding someone documented by reliable sources as being in conflict with the official organization — regardless of what is "pending", it's obvious that the kpdo.org website is unauthorized by the station owners as it exists. Third, and more to the point for Wikipedia: Domains by Proxy means that the owner, or whether it is "pending" anything, is now unverifiable from reliable sources. (And just in case that editor has any clever ideas: No, the kpdo.org website itself saying "this is official" isn't a reliable source.) --Closeapple (talk) 06:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)