Template:Did you know nominations/KXBR (defunct)

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:39, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

KXBR (defunct)

5x expanded by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 02:13, 1 February 2019 (UTC).

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  • Template:Ping I did fix the one citation that still had mdy format (I use dmy for all references personally; that was the last holdover from the existing stub.) My big problem is I don't have a newspapers.com subscription and have been entirely reliant on OCR text. I can't come into compliance without a subscription and would like guidance as to how I may do so. As to the inclusion of the locale in the DYK hook, it is there because it disambiguates from the current KXBR which is in Minnesota. Speaking of which, the (defunct) disambiguator is far and away the common for these articles, looking through Category:Defunct radio stations in the United States which has 103 articles using it. This may be a good MOS question for an RfC or WikiProject Radio Stations, but this is not the venue for a change that would affect so many articles. Raymie (tc) 06:29, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Template:Ping You can apply for a Newspapers.com subscription through The Wikipedia Library, but I can waive the requirement for now. I'll also waive the article title suggestion, as I didn't realize how many articles are breaking the normal conventions for disambiguation...it definitely needs to be addressed at the project level. I still think the hook is too long to really grab readers, which would be a shame given the subject matter; confusion with the KXBR in Minnesota wouldn't really be of relevance for a DYK hook, either. SounderBruce 06:33, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Template:Ping Let's get to the hook then. Here's a first crack at a shorter ALT1: Raymie (tc) 06:57, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
ALT1: ... that a landowner buried the transmitter building for Missouri radio station KXBR in six feet of dirt as part of a rent dispute?
  • Symbol confirmed.svg ALT1 looks great to me. SounderBruce 07:00, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
As a note, I now have the subscription so I just converted all the citations in the article to clippings. Raymie (tc) 08:35, 20 February 2019 (UTC)