Template:Did you know nominations/KXBR (defunct)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:39, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

KXBR (defunct)[edit]

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... that in a 1989 rent dispute, landowner Lois DeClue used a bulldozer to bury the transmitter building for Greenfield, Missouri, radio station KXBR in six feet of dirt? Source: "A property owner forced KXBR/Greenfield, MO to go dark Sunday night (7/9) by using a bulldozer to barricade the transmitter shed door with large tree trunks, and then burying the structure under six feet of dirt." (page 32)

Reviewed: SurfSafe

5x expanded by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 02:13, 1 February 2019 (UTC).

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 eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - I think the hook could be shortened by taking out the year, locale, and landowner's name to keep things hook-y.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The Newspapers.com links need to be changed to clipped articles instead of pages, to make them available for more readers. The date formatting needs to be consistent in the citations section as well. I would suggest renaming the article with another disambiguator, either KXBR (Missouri) or KXBR (1974–90), to be in line with naming policies. Sounder Bruce 05:59, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

@SounderBruce: I did fix the one citation that still had mdy format (I use dmy for all references personally; that was the last holdover from the existing stub.) My big problem is I don't have a newspapers.com subscription and have been entirely reliant on OCR text. I can't come into compliance without a subscription and would like guidance as to how I may do so. As to the inclusion of the locale in the DYK hook, it is there because it disambiguates from the current KXBR which is in Minnesota. Speaking of which, the (defunct) disambiguator is far and away the common for these articles, looking through Category:Defunct radio stations in the United States which has 103 articles using it. This may be a good MOS question for an RfC or WikiProject Radio Stations, but this is not the venue for a change that would affect so many articles. Raymie (t • c) 06:29, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

@Raymie: You can apply for a Newspapers.com subscription through The Wikipedia Library, but I can waive the requirement for now. I'll also waive the article title suggestion, as I didn't realize how many articles are breaking the normal conventions for disambiguation...it definitely needs to be addressed at the project level. I still think the hook is too long to really grab readers, which would be a shame given the subject matter; confusion with the KXBR in Minnesota wouldn't really be of relevance for a DYK hook, either. Sounder Bruce 06:33, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

@SounderBruce: Let's get to the hook then. Here's a first crack at a shorter ALT1: Raymie (t • c) 06:57, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that a landowner buried the transmitter building for Missouri radio station KXBR in six feet of dirt as part of a rent dispute?

ALT1 looks great to me. Sounder Bruce 07:00, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

As a note, I now have the subscription so I just converted all the citations in the article to clippings. Raymie (t • c) 08:35, 20 February 2019 (UTC)