Talk:WLNL

A fact from WLNL appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 April 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that radio station WIQT near Elmira, New York, was co-owned with a regional group of clothing, furniture, and shoe stores?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 04:56, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that radio station WIQT near Elmira, New York, was co-owned with a regional group of clothing, furniture, and shoe stores? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97302274/manny-carves-a-success-story-cobblers/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Smiley v. Holm

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 05:49, 10 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Doing the review.

Article is more than 1,500 characters. Suggested hook is cited. Should be good unless someone wants to jump in and/or something's up. Ominae (talk) 13:48, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Sammi Brie and Ominae: I was going to promote this, but I do not think the hook is supported by the information in the article. The article says, "By 1979, in addition to the radio stations, Panosian owned six shoe, clothing, and furniture stores in upstate New York". From my understanding, Panosian is Manuel Panosian, a business owner. Therefore, I don't think the station was owned by a regional group, but rather a business owner who also owned clothing, furniture and shoe stores. Is there something I am missing? I have also suggested some alts below:

ALT1: ...that the owner of radio station WIQT near Elmira, New York, also owned clothing, furniture, and shoe stores?

*ALT2: ...that WIQT originally operated as a daytime-only radio station?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Z1720 (talk) 01:44, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Z1720 ALT2 is bad and applies to hundreds of stations, so it can't go forward. The mention of "regional" was made since some were outside the immediate Elmira area. Your understanding is correct, but I'm not sure how the hook doesn't quite get to the article. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:12, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Sammi Brie: My concern with ALT0 is that, from my reading, it implies that the clothing, furniture, and shoe stores co-owned the radio station, which I do not think is the case. I struck ALT2. Would ALT1 be acceptable, and we'll let another prepper decide which one is best? Z1720 (talk) 13:55, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Z1720: Yeah, I'm fine with ALT1. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:03, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]