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Did you know nomination

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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 Lightburst talk 03:28, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 05:22, 5 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/WNET (Rhode Island); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: No - See below.
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - ALT0 hook does not quite match the source or the article (which lists 13 years, not 15). ALT1 is scattered in the article without a direct mention of the length of time between airings.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Once the hook issue is resolved, ALT0 should be good to go. ALT1 would need some in-article work to make the hook's facts clearer in the article. SounderBruce 21:18, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    • @SounderBruce: That is an odd error, and it's in the source, but there's a reason for the discrepancy. I assumed that the court's ruling, and the article, mean 13 years from July 1955 to April 1969 (the FCC's deletion), and I'm pretty much right (this was said at committee hearing in January 1969, per the ruling by the appeals court). My calculation for the hook was from July 1955 to February 1971, when the appeals court issued its ruling. As to ALT1, I've tried to make this clearer in the lead. A more precise window can't be given because there unfortunately is no firm known start date for WSTG on 64 (one of two factbooks says it was in September 1981, but FCC filing dates, the other factbook, and newspaper coverage suggest December, possibly the final days of it, and in writing WNAC-TV, I chose to represent its start date as December 1981). Sammi Brie (she/her • tc) 01:25, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]