Talk:WNLC (AM)

A fact from WNLC (AM) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that radio station WNLC in New London, Connecticut, was off the air for three weeks after the 1938 New England hurricane destroyed its tower and flooded the transmitter building?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WNLC (AM).

Wikipedia

Radio Stations Low‑importance

	Radio portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Radio Stations, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of radio stations on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Radio StationsWikipedia:WikiProject Radio StationsTemplate:WikiProject Radio StationsRadio station articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

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 Amkgp (talk) 15:49, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that radio station WNLC in New London, Connecticut, was off the air for three weeks after the 1938 New England hurricane destroyed its tower and flooded the transmitter building? Source: p26

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ludwig Hoelscher
Comment: Suggestion: September 21, to mark the anniversary of the landfall of the hurricane?

Created by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 06:57, 17 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Raymie, review follows: article created 17 August; article exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I didn't pick up on any overly close paraphrasing; hook fact is interesting and mentioned in the article; a QPQ has been carried out. Just a handful of suggestions:

The lead should be longer and summarise the content of the article, per WP:LEAD
I think the history section (which is currently the only one in the article) is a little long and could do with breaking down into smaller sections. What do you think?
21 September would be a good day to run this but I think it would be best to mention the date in the article and, if possible, the hook

let me know your thoughts - Dumelow (talk) 12:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow: Perhaps September 13—the station's sign-on date in 1936—would work better than September 21, since I just happen to have written this in a timely fashion. I've broken down the history section a bit, too. Lead's a touch longer, but it's kind of common in radio to have short lead sections since a summary can often be quite lacking. Raymie (t • c) 17:42, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

13 September works fine for me. I tend to prefer leads a little longer but if this is usual for radio station articles then fair enough - Dumelow (talk) 17:51, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]