Talk:WMBF-TV/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: BennyOnTheLoose (talk · contribs) 17:15, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a. (prose, spelling, and grammar):

   b. (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a. (reference section):

   b. (citations to reliable sources):

   c. (OR):

   d. (copyvio and plagiarism): I reviewed the three non-zero matches found using Earwig's Copyvio Detector. No issues. Similarly, no issues from the nespaper clippings I reviewed.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a. (major aspects):

   b. (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.: Some past differences of opinion betwen editors about content, but the article is stable.

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a. (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): Logo is PD.

   b. (appropriate use with suitable captions): Good ALT text.

7. Overall:

   Pass/fail:

(Criteria marked are unassessed)

History

• Spot check on Coastal Carolina's proposed station got a call sign, WCRD, but little else, being unable to secure financing - OK
• Spot check on The president of Cosmos told The Sun News that the odds were long for Cosmos to actually be granted the channel - OK
• Spot check on The construction of WMBF cost Raycom an estimated $10 million - OK
• Optionally, use WP:CITEBUNDLE for "[13][14][15][16]"
  • What a freight train of references. Recent big TV station M&As tend to be this way with the same content and excessive citation volume on dozens of pages—it's also often the case (not here, but in some other pages) that M&As involving the parent company have been mentioned despite not being terribly germane to the station in question. I've kept two references and removed two.
• Being somewhat familiar with your work on Wikipedia, I'm assuming that the reason there's not much history after 2008 (apart from the sale to Gray Television) is because there's nothing of note that happened.
  • Yeah, and frankly I suffer a bit from the decreased coverage of local media in newspapers. Only a handful of markets have media columnists that produce stories at the same volume they were prior to either 2000 or the Great Recession (someone like Alan Pergament of The Buffalo News, Cincinnati's John Kiesewetter, etc.)

Newscasts

• Spot check on In the station's early years, managers elsewhere were often instructed to seek advice from WMBF on technical issues related to HD news conversion - OK, but consider adding that it was managers from other Raycom stations.
  • Done.
• Spot check on WMBF was the first local station to launch weekend morning newscasts in the early 2010s - OK
• Optionally, reword WMBF was the first local station to launch weekend morning newscasts in the early 2010s to show it was the first, not the first in the early 2010s
  • Done.

Technical information

• No issues.

Infobox and lead

• Infobox: The call sign meaning isn't sourced.
  • Fixed—turns out the first article about them from 2007 notes it's named for its Myrtle Beach–Florence coverage.
• Lead is fairly short, which seems proportionate to the article, and I don't think there are any glaring omissions.

Great work on the article, Sammi Brie. I have only the most minor suggestions, but feel free to challenge. Placing the review on hold. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 18:10, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

• @BennyOnTheLoose: Resolved. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:27, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

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