Talk:WBUF-TV

A fact from WBUF-TV appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a TV station in Buffalo, New York, owned a 1921-vintage fire engine?

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Did you know nomination

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 CSJJ104 (talk) 16:52, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that NBC lost $1 million running a TV station in Buffalo, New York? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109254503/wbuf-closing-down-channel-17-station-on/
- ALT1: ... that a TV station in Buffalo, New York owned a 1921-vintage fire engine? Source: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1014797403 + https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109689784/wbuf-dedication-seen-all-over-u-s-on/ + https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109690373/celeste-made-a-holm-out-of-a-fire-truck/ (it was sold after WBUF folded)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Boost!
- Comment: New article at this title but a 5x expansion of 3118 bytes RPS of material that was in WNED-TV.

Created by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 18:54, 17 September 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Hi, I think this would be a great addition to the DYK page.

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:

Looks good to go for the DYK section. Both ALT0 and ALT1 are good to go, but I'd lean toward using ALT0. Soulbust (talk) 04:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]