User talk:Dravecky/Archive 33

November 2011

Otium

This is my latest article. Feel free to make any improvements. --Doug Coldwell ^talk 19:01, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Fixed a few typos and punctuation errors, reworded one sentence, and pulled out some stray spaces. Always happy to help. - Dravecky (talk) 19:22, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the improvements.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 19:29, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Expanded article. Any ideas for a DYK hook?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 11:17, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I am going to try to turn this article into a Good Article. Any suggestions or help?----Doug Coldwell ^talk 11:55, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

I've made it more concise. Does it need more "fine tuning"? Good Article possibility?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 17:22, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

I would convert the confusing "Philosophers viewpoints of otium" table into prose as well as examining the structure of the article a bit. Sorry that I don't have any more concrete bits of advice but good luck with the GA process. - Dravecky (talk) 23:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

WBBR Article

Hi! I was hoping you would be able to take a look at a draft I've written to improve the WBBR Bloomberg Radio article. I work with Bloomberg L.P. and understand that my revisions to this article represent a WP:COI, which is why I'd appreciate your help in reviewing it to make sure it follows WP:NPOV. I've added citations where I could, organized the history section into dated sub-sections and added more detail about current Bloomberg programming. My draft is saved here. Thanks for your help! Ordwayen (talk) 21:00, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

The draft seems reasonable from a COI perspective. The final "note" about another WBBR is both not needed and somewhat confusing. Is there another AM station sharing these call letters? Was there another WBBR in the area in recent memory? - Dravecky (talk) 23:42, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I agree about the note. I couldn't find anything to support that, so it's probably unnecessary. I appreciate your help and will leave a note on the article talk page to see if anyone else wants to weigh in before I incorporate my edits.Ordwayen (talk) 16:30, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Eyes on DYK

Hey Dravecky, keep your eyes on DYK in the coming days. :) I think you will like what you see. Yeah, I am braggin', but I gotta tell someone. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 08:31, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Will do - Dravecky (talk) 00:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Georgia Tech Alumni Association

I took the liberty of expanding the article with the sources I have on hand before I !voted in the AFD. I'm sure that it could be further expanded, but I don't know how much time I'll have to do so this week. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 07:12, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! The same editor prod tagged a whole swath of alumni association articles at once and some have proven harder to expand or improve than others. - Dravecky (talk) 21:25, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed that. I dislike the deletion sprees that some editors go on, but it's life on Wikipedia. :-/ —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 22:31, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Hey, one of my friends sent me this document. Apparently, Georgia Tech alumni are ranked third in giving (public universities) and #26 (overall). Is that a claim to notability for the alumni association (who are the ones raising the money, presumably)? —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 03:35, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

And here are some other statistics about alumni giving. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 03:59, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

I think notability is sufficiently secured but any improvement to the article is always welcome. - Dravecky (talk) 07:06, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

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• You might want to give the WSTK a look-see, it needs work. A whole freakin' teardown and rebuild at this point. I deleted some unsourced slogans and information, but it's bad. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:08, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
  • True, but for now I've given it a little polish and restored the logo. - Dravecky (talk) 20:37, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Disambiguation

They renamed the darn template on me? Urgh... Mlaffs (talk) 22:02, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Yup. All the WikiProject tags got renamed a while back. It's {{WikiProject Radio Stations}} now, too. - Dravecky (talk) 23:02, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Geez, those are way too many characters. Have to look into keyboard shortcuts. Mlaffs (talk) 00:18, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of British Sikh Student Federation (B.S.S.F)

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Yeah, I was just getting to that. Needed to move it to the proper name first... - Dravecky (talk) 01:16, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I think I now know why the article stopped getting updated in late January 2011... - Dravecky (talk) 01:51, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

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KQIK

It's early so I may be missing something obvious — just wondering why you changed the dab template on KQIK? Mlaffs (talk) 14:23, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Habit, nothing more. I've been doing several with a mix of stations and other articles. - Dravecky (talk) 23:32, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

WSHR

Another radio station up for deletion...under false reasons. Think you could give it the ol' "Dravecky once-over"? Might even get a DYK out of it. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:30, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

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WMRO

There are things that are incorrect about WMRO, in fact, the histroy of WWGM goes back to when the station signed on orignally in 1963 as WLVN, owned by the Second Thursday Coporation. There is informaion that never made it to any website. Scott Bailey was working in Commercial Radio way before Vounteer State College. That will be removed from their website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnmiller (talk • contribs) 19:04, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

The history section may be incomplete but that's a reason to complete it, not delete whole sections of properly referenced text as you have done recently. Why you've removed critical markup like the {{reflist}} template and such on multiple occasions is a mystery. Perhaps a review of Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines are in order here. - Dravecky (talk) 20:01, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Verifable Sources

Scott, Sources like Bob Nelson's Call Letter Meaning Database is in accurate. If you would like to contact my FCC Attorney, it is Miller and Nelly, P.C. in Bethesda, MD. They are a verifable source. If you look at the applications on the FCC's Database, most of us fall have attornies that represent us station owners, and there is information that is not made public on the internet that the attornies have. Now getting you that information is the next step. Scott, if you will go to my station's email site and send me a private email, I can get with my attorney on things you need. This is why wikipedia is failing, false information gets posted and on the Rachel Ray Show on TV, it was brought up! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnmiller (talk • contribs) 22:31, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi. My name is not actually Scott, that was just an air name I used way back in my radio days. Wikipedia normally relies on reliable, published sources for its articles. This generally means a newspaper story, magazine article, or trusted website. - Dravecky (talk) 14:04, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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