Talk:WMAZ-TV

Past Personalities

I heard a rumor that Suzanne Lawler was leaving the station? Is it true? Chrismaster1 14:53, August 13, 2007

Obviously, that rumor wasn't true. She' still there. Wmazeditor (talk) 16:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Speaking of sports reporters, does anyone know there whereabouts of Hugh Zeitlin? He left and didn't say where he was going. Wmazeditor (talk) 16:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Why no mention of Del Ward? ~~Will~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.16.220.64 (talk) 18:33, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Tim Dobbs; Political Editor 1960s and 70s.

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) 16:21, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Maybe you don't think that it belongs on Wikipedia but there are people who watch 13 WMAZ that want to know where some of the former employees have left and gone on to. --Chrismaster1 (talk) 01:06, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Hello Chrismaster, This doesn't have anything to do with what I want, or what you want, in terms of what is appropriately included in the article. Not including unreferenced lists of former employees of television stations who don't already have an existing article in the encyclopedia (especially unreferenced lengthy lists) has been a consensus in Wikipedia for the past three years. The practice of not including such lists has been discussed and approved of through consensus on the television station project page itself, as well as numerous individual article talk pages regarding television stations in both large and small markets across North America for years now. If you look around in Wiki you'll discover that a minimal number of remaining TV station articles contain such lists, there is no reason why WMAZ-TV should constitute a exception to that consensus. As a gentle reminder, some editors who have persisted in continuously replacing these types of unreferenced lists, after they were removed by other editors, have subsequently been blocked for periods of time from editing Wikipedia. This is not a personal thing, nor is the WMAZ-TV article being 'singled out'. In order for users to have confidence in the information they find in the encyclopedia, proper referencing is essential in bolstering that confidence, a suggestion that I noticed has been pointed out to you on your personal talk page in the past. Lack of referencing is particularly bad news when we're talking about biographical material related to living persons. The present list in this article currently contains just such information and I will be removing it along with the rest of the unreferenced entries. Thank you for your cooperation. 74.14.24.50 (talk) 18:16, 11 July 2013 (UTC)