User talk:Mlaffs/Archives/2022/August

Article piping

In the article titled 2021-22 Dallas Mavericks season, you piped in the KVDT article even though the previous KESN link had already redirected to the former station in the first place. I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but can you provide me a rationale for doing so? Marioedit8 (talk) 14:14, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, absolutely; completely fair question. Call signs for broadcast stations in the U.S. get reused all the time. A station could quite literally request the FCC to change to KESN tomorrow and be using it before the end of the week. It's really easy for articles to end up with links pointing to the wrong place down the road if the correct article isn't piped in when a call sign changes — dozens of articles in a case like this. See WP:NOTBROKEN; fifth bullet under the section about good reasons to bypass redirects. Mlaffs (talk) 03:17, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

I guess that makes some more sense. Thanks for answering my question in a fair way. Marioedit8 (talk) 02:50, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

WPLH/WJYI

I suspect that this is going to end up as a replacement. The 103.1 is a D, they've talked about "moving" ([1])... I'd keep an eye on this. I bet this is going to be like the cases I know of an LPFM replacing a D essentially inline (KSWC-LP and KSWH-LP). Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:46, 3 August 2022 (UTC)