Talk:WIS (TV)

message: I took out a LOT of the station's history as noted on here, because it was either unsourced, promotional, or went off on a tangent.  Some of it was also superfluous -- every television news program goes through set changes, I'm reasonably sure that every station there covered the "big stories" that were listed, and simply adding newscasts to the lineup is not "historical".  I would ask future editors to please be concise. Amnewsboy 17:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History Cleanup

message: Thank you for cleaning up quite a bit of the history.  However, while it may be true that every station went through set changes, none of the stations in Columbia has focused on the transition to HDTV (only WIS has made this clear).  Also, WIS was the only station to have significant news coverage until the mid-1990s.  Unfortunately I cannot cite this here because this is from personal history, but those who have lived in the Columbia metropolitan area would have known that WLTX and WOLO did not have significant news teams and coverage until the mid-1990s, and only until Gannett purchased WLTX in the late 1990s did they begin to expand their news coverage and become a direct competitor.  Before then, the station did poorly in terms of coverage (i.e. did not do extensive news coverage like WIS).  WOLO still has a very weak news product and does not break in for local breaking news (only weather...and that's indicated with a crawler).  Just wanted to give the context instead of just the assumption that "every station there covered the 'big stories'". 152.3.81.78 01:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for response to the edits; it's appreciated (because these things work best when they're talked about!).  I think the problem we're drifting into here is that, while they may have done the best job or had the most resources, there are other stations in the market that cover news.  By qualifying them in the way you suggest, we're introducing opinion into the article -- WP articles are supposed to remain POV neutral (WP:NPOV).  It's very easy to turn this (and many TV station articles) into commercials for the station, and we have to watch how we balance it. Amnewsboy 09:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's objectively accurate (and documentable) that WIS has historically produced a (sometimes far) greater quantity of news and other local programming than the other two stations, and that's still true with regard to WOLO.  Right now, WIS produces almost five hours of news per weekday (soon to be equalled by WLTX), while WOLO does half an hour at 6 and 11 and the five-minute Good Morning America cut-ins, and that's it. If you want a source to cite for the historical amount of local programming produced by each station, The State archives should be available on microfilm at  libraries in the Columbia area -- the TV listings for any day prior to the mid-1990's will show you the disparity. JTRH 22:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Response to History Cleanup

message: Here is how the various dictionaries define "meteorologist":
me·te·or·ol·o·gist
n.  
# One who studies meteorology.
# One who reports and forecasts weather conditions.
:American Heritage Dictionary
meteorologist, noun
* a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather condition
:WordNet
meteorologist
*A person skilled in meteorology. 
:---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 23:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, sorry, that last one was Websters. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 00:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of Meteorologist 

message: Brooks Garner's title had been changed by someone (with an Indiana IP address), from "evening meteorologist" to "chief meteorologist." I changed it back to "evening meteorologist" as WIS has apparently done-away with the old "chief" system with the departure of Ken Aucoin in early '07. While Garner is the main evening meteorologist today, I've never heard anyone refer to him, or read on the WIS website, as being "chief meteorologist." Titles should not be assigned if they're not readily apparent, and instead their positions should be simply described based on on-air appearance (morning/evening/weekend).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.76.11.134 (talk) 05:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  December 2007 Revisions 

message: "Storm Track Doppler Radar" was not the stations own radar. It was a viewer of WSR-88D NEXRAD data from the National Weather Service. Once WIS purchased it's own radar, it was branded "Super Doppler." 
Also removed the "first website in the market" portion. WOLO was actually the first station in the Columbia market to have a news website. WIS was second.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carolina Media (talk • contribs) 08:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: May 2008 Revisions 

message: Changed Chrissy Kohler's position from "Saturday Morning weather" to "Fill-in Weathercaster." She has not been assigned to any specific newscast and she fills-in for both weekend and morning shifts.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.83.128.71 (talk) 15:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision 7/09 

message: Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:
#WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information."  As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.  
#As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced. 
# WP:Source list tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article. 
#Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.
If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable.  Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 14:38, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material