Template talk:Washington FM

Latest comment: 17 years ago by GGreeneVa in topic How do we deal w/ WGMS?

How do we deal w/ WGMS?

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The old one has clearly died, but the call letters live on — bequeathed to WETA in WGMS's last will and testament. That could get confusing for people who don't know the D.C. radio market, and presumably, that's who we write these articles for.

Does it make sense to have WGMS in the template twice — once as a defunct station, and in another place with a link to WETA — or do we need to disambiguate the titles somehow?

For what it's worth, I see more sense in turning WGMS (FM) into a disambiguation page, with one link to the current content at, maybe, WGMS (classical music station), and a separate line explaining that the call sign now belongs to a repeater station for WETA. Or you could redirect WGMS (FM) to WETA, put a line at the top saying:

WGMS (FM) redirects here. For the former commercial radio station in Washington, D.C., with a similar format, see WGMS (classical music station).

... and point the 'past stations' link in the Washington FM template to the latter page.

We probably need to come up with a better disambiguation — they're both classical music stations, after all — but there has to be some way to handle this. Thoughts? —GGreeneVa 01:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Or maybe "WGMS (defunct commercial station)" can do the trick. I dunno -- help me out here, y'all. —GGreeneVa 01:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)Reply