Talk:WZAM

A fact from WZAM appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that confusion over time zone changes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan resulted in technical violations at WCKD radio and almost cost the owner an opportunity to build a station in Illinois?

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Sign-on Date[edit]

I don't know when the station signed on, but it only became WMVN on 8/26/1982. Before then, I was also WUPY (yes, they screamed out "Whoopee" on the air). A talk show called "Telephone Time" aired in the morning with Jay Jennings. That was the late 60s and early 70s probably. I'm not updating any of this because I was a kid and don't have a good enough recollection to update an encyclopedia entry. But I remember it... my mom was a loyal listener. So I'm updating the info on the sign-on date...Goeverywhere 17:32, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 13:07, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that confusion in 1967 over time zone changes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, resulting in technical violations at WCKD radio, almost cost the owner an opportunity to build a station in Illinois? Source: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306596/m1/917/

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Viral vector vaccine

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 22:36, 14 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Comments by Tbhotch

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Sammi Brie: WP:DYKRULES 3b: "Each fact in the hook must be supported in the article by at least one inline citation to a reliable source, appearing no later than the end of the sentence(s) offering that fact. Citations at the end of the paragraph are not sufficient." And Link 6 goes to page 273 and not to page 895 as it suggests. Link 1 needs additional information as it took me a while to find which page sources what. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 22:19, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Tbhotch: I typically haven't added that to History Cards (admittedly, they can be quite inscrutable documents for people who are not topic experts). The link mistake was just a mistake—I've fixed this with a correct link to the first page of the FCC decision. The article should already have all the inline citations it needs; thanks for drawing my attention to the incorrect link. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:49, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, now I understand why Rule 3b exists. I thought it was bureaucratic but it truly reduces the time of reviewing facts. As a suggestion, you should, either, specify the page(s) the information appears or quote the information because this is DYK, not GAN. I don't need to read the whole FCC decision. After 11 pages I realized I already had read the hook. After rambling on this, everything is OK, the article is sourced, I had to source part of the hook (as requested by WP:DYKRULES#3b), there are no copyright/POV/MOS/DYK violations.

(CC) Tbhotch^™ 23:50, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I should have been better at putting a page cite in there, admittedly. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:13, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sammi Brie, I tweaked the hook structure slightly to make it less complex, and to remove the date (which is not in the article)

... that confusion over time zone changes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan resulted in technical violations at WCKD radio, and almost cost the owner an opportunity to build a station in Illinois?

Please let me know if that's not okay. MeegsC (talk) 13:06, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MeegsC: It's fine, but the comma should go; the second part isn't a complete sentence. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 16:23, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]