{"id":7290,"date":"2013-10-21T07:36:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2023-03-29T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T18:06:51","slug":"wikipedia-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/10\/wikipedia-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"Wikipedia-logo-v2\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Type the call letters for almost any radio or television station in the country into a search engine, and the second or third result will be a Wikipedia article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is both an opportunity and a burden.\u00a0 Since Wikipedia articles place so well in most search engine results, it would be a benefit to radio stations to keep an eye on them; keep them up to date, make sure that no one vandalizes them, and fix them when they do.\u00a0 Most importantly, keep the station website link and streaming link information up to date.\u00a0 That is the burden but it is relatively small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opportunity comes from the ability to document the history of individual radio stations. On the grand scale, the history of any individual radio station is like a grain of sand on the beach. It is only pertinent to those who care.\u00a0 But then there are those who do care and for some of us, reading a well-written, well-sourced article about some station we are familiar with is interesting.\u00a0 To be sure, there are many crappy radio station articles on Wikipedia.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of them read like advertisements, clearly written by non-neutral party.\u00a0 Others do not have sections, have poor grammar, improper or no source citations, etc.\u00a0 Those poor articles should be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my time as a broadcast engineer, I have found radio stations to be like ships; they all have a certain personality.\u00a0 It is difficult to explain how an inanimate collection of equipment and buildings can have personality, but they do.\u00a0 Of course, with time, format, and ownership changes those personalities change.\u00a0 Documenting operating histories, formats, unique occurrences, famous past personalities, incidents, accidents, and technical discoveries in one place takes a little bit of time.\u00a0 Having that information available for fellow radio people to read about is a valuable service.\u00a0 The one thing that I notice about most radio station Wikipedia articles; there are no pictures.\u00a0 There should be more pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Type the call letters for almost any radio or television station in the country into a search engine, and the second or third result will be a Wikipedia article. Try it. This is both an opportunity and a burden.\u00a0 Since Wikipedia articles place so well in most search engine results, it would be a benefit … Continue reading Wikipedia Articles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-history","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11328,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/11328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}