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Fan of Casey's shows
Hi MrRadioGuy,
Just curious and comparing notes with you.
What call letters did you fix?
I'm trying to get Premiere Radio Networks to send me an official list, but so far still waiting and having to dig up ones I can find on Google.
Bad part of this is that everything is constantly changing and it's almost impossible to keep this current for very long. Just felt like doing it because I'm a big fan of Casey Kasem's old shows.
Thanks,
Steve Sybesma Lafayette, CO —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssybesma (talk • contribs) 18:07, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
- I just fixed an internal wiki-link, from WYNZ-FM to WYNZ as the WYNZ-FM article does not exist and WYNZ's offical call letters do not include -FM, which explains why the article is where it is and not over at WYNZ-FM.
- It's not hard to keep the list updated, there will be stations adding/dropping every so often but it's tough now because there is no offical list and the list on Wikipedia was so outdated. Mr Radio Guy !!! 18:15, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
- I added -FM outside of the brackets when it was not part of the Wiki label because I figured it's an aid
to people knowing it's an FM station (if they don't already know that 530-1600 is AM and 88.1-108.1 is FM.
- Would you allow that to remain in that case? The link still works because the -FM is outside of the link.
- Anyway, I wanted to throw something at you about reordering the list to make it a little more usable.
- I was thinking of putting the list in GMT order, but still leaving the Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific names in place.
- That way, the entire list would show according to what time the shows are on, regardless of time zone.
- Or perhaps you have a better idea on how to order it.
- Ssybesma (talk) 18:28, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
- Okay, I see what you were trying to do in regards to the -FM/AM thing, I was just fixing the wiki-link so that people could click on the station's article to figure out what station it was that carrying AT40:70's.
- Ssybesma (talk) 18:28, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
- An easier way to sort the list could be by State/Market or alphabetically by call letters and change the colums to look like this:
- This would make it easier for article readers to actually find their local station, as opposed to the "By start time" sort, because stations can frequently change their schedules. Mr Radio Guy !!! 19:08, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks MrRadioGuy, I will implement your suggestion. I guess you noticed how the links still work in the other
- This would make it easier for article readers to actually find their local station, as opposed to the "By start time" sort, because stations can frequently change their schedules. Mr Radio Guy !!! 19:08, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
stations on the list that I added the -FM to. My thinking is that it looks more consistent. There's even a way to alias a link for some of the wiki links that have ()sin them but I forgot how to do that. I would like to make them look all the same as much as possible. Most of the links indeed go to wiki pages that only have the strict 4 letters of the radio station, but (IMHO) the call letter wiki pages should be updated to add -AM or -FM (a massive projectin itself) because of the fact many stations have an AM or FM version of the same call letters and are not necessarily owned by the same company, and/or may share none of the same characteristics. The other part of the problem is the wikis for the stations themselves get grossly out of date, with changes in ownership, frequencies, format, etc... so it's hard to rely a lot on the information in them, just as its hard to rely on the info on the page we're working on. That's why I added the Last Verified column (didn't know what else to do there).
- I'm also going to do searches for markets and states that don't appear on the list. PRN said they would give me information for a station in a particular market, so if I need a few here and there, guess I can ask them.
- Hopefully, Skyezx won't wipe out the whole page and
all the hours of work because he says it's unencyclopedic (see his note in the discussion). There needs to be a home for this list and less enthusiasm to destroy people's work.
- Keep in touch...
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A forum that is supposed to resolve some of the issues regarding this article can be found here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SEIU Local 1 Canada. Regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 22:36, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Redirects
Recently you modified a number of redirects on SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes. Most of them were benign, and didn't really need changing (such as replacing [[British Railways]] by [[British Rail]]ways. Such changes also modify the 'tooltip' text seen when the link is hovered over -- here I would argue there is no harm in showing the original "British Railways".
However, my main gripe is for a couple of edits where the redirect includes an anchor to the subsection of the article (1955 Modernisation Plan and Brunswick Green), but the link was changed to the article name, bypassing the anchor and thus making the user have to look harder to find the required information.
I thought the WP policy was for redirects to be left alone, rather than piped (as you have done) since that allows for the easier conversion from a redirect to a stand-alone article; easier location of cross-refs between articles, etc. (Having converted a redirect to an article, 'what links here' can help locate where the article is mentioned. If the redirects have been bypassed with a pipe, this is no longer possible.) I know it is unlikely, but there is always the possibility of (for example) British Railways being created separately from British Rail in the future, in which case the SR WC/BB article would now have incorrect links.
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Hi, Mr Radio Guy!
I'm Darren, and I joined Wikipedia, more or less, just to update, improve, and create articles about the books Tommy Storm, its sequel, Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights, and their author, A.J. Healy. Recently, I e-mailed A.J. and asked him to attach a picture to a reply, so I could add it to his page. He did so, and I downloaded it, and uploaded it here. It was deleted seven days later, I think because of the liscense I selected. I really don't know what liscense to put it under, because I have his permission to use it here. Can you help me out?
Darren Mulligan (talk) 02:47, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not the best to go to for images but I can atleast point you in the right direction, but it seems like Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission might have your answers specifically this section. --MrRadioGuy P T C E 03:17, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, just to let you know, I fixed the formatting of your !vote on the aforementioned RfA. Hope you don't mind! :) Master&Expert (Talk) 13:19, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi MrRadioGuy,
Really sorry to see the list go. I cannot figure out what the deal is with these people who spend their entire free time deleting other people's work instead of policing the accuracy of things that are posted. That seems where 95% of the effort should be. It's far too easy to delete than create, though.
I know we both tried to work to improve the list and I was proud to be involved in helping update a source of information for people who like the show.
Perhaps there can be a home for this list (and others), where Wiki Nazis will not bother it. All I care about is whether something is complete and factual, but not whether I think it's useful.
My views on what an online encyclopedia doesn't have to be:
The way I think they determine what an encylopedia is, is so unnecessarily limiting.
There WAS no way to put all the world's information (of whatever kind) into one set of encylopedias when books were being printed to contain them, so criteria had to be developed to exclude lots of things deemed not to fit within a prescribed limit of say, 30 thick books. Of course, 30 thick books can contain only so much!!!
I think the administrators of Wikipedia err greatly in imposing upon Wikipedia limits that were created not so much as a way to help determine what an encylopedia really is, but out of the sheer necessity of avoiding an unfeasibly large library of books.
With the internet, that's not really a concern anymore, although these outmoded criteria are being applied to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia should recast itself as being a much less-limiting forum, because it's just not as necessary to do that anymore. It can open up just a bit and not lose whatever it thinks its purpose is.
Ssybesma (talk) 16:01, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
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What did you think was vandalism on my user page. Obviously it wasn't. (JoeCool950 (talk) 07:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC))
- It's not, it was an accidental slip on my part. Sorry, damn touch pad on my lap top. --MrRadioGuy P T C E 18:28, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
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I work for the MDS Foundation and I submitted an article written by one of our doctors called "Management of Iron Overload in Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)". I received a notice that the article was up for speedy deletion because of copyright. The article was submitted to me by one of our doctors and we were asked to post it on wikipedia because this topic on MDS is not covered by Wikipedia. I copied and pasted this article to wikipedia from an email he sent me. How can I explain that this was not taken from the doctor it was provided by him for me to post to wikipeda. Foundation4573 (talk) 19:27, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
- Looking at the history, I see it was actually deleted twice...once for being an essay (see WP:NOT) and once for being a copyright violation. I didn't see the article so I can't tell if it was a copyright issue (generally I see that when someone copies a website into a wikipedia article) but if it was an essay then that's generally not allowed. Whatever the subject may be, it'll stick around if its written like an encyclopedia entry rather than a college thesis. --MrRadioGuy P T C E 20:33, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for your answer. Will the article stick around on wikipedia or is it deleted for good. Sounds like maybe I should have the doctor post the article in his own words instead of using reference throughout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foundation4573 (talk • contribs) 20:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
- Will it survive? I have no idea, other editors can find information on it and add to the article and change it as they wish, once it's out there anything can happen. As for it being deleted for good, you can try Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion where an administrator can restore the article and put it within your user page and rewrite the article, but if you still have the origional on your computer, you can rewrite it there and copy it wikipedia when you're comfortable with it.--MrRadioGuy P T C E 21:12, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for your answer. Will the article stick around on wikipedia or is it deleted for good. Sounds like maybe I should have the doctor post the article in his own words instead of using reference throughout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foundation4573 (talk • contribs) 20:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm Andrew Brown (translator) and just found out that I have a Wikipedia entry - I don't know why, possibly a well-meaning publisher. Would it be possible to have this page deleted? I'm uneasy having such an entry: it's not of any interest, and simply consists of a tedious list of my translations. If you want to check that I am the person I say I am, please contact me via my e-mail: [email protected]. (I've just created an account as a potential editor but am not sure whether I could just delete the article myself.) Thanks, and best wishes, Andrew Brown. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewsbrown (talk • contribs) 20:51, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
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- Hello, thanks for your quick feedback! I would be v. happy to have the page about me deleted and not recreated. Perhaps you cd share this suggestion with DubiousIrony? (I'm still finding my way around behind the scenes here...) I think it was created by publishers and just reads like a biblio. Thanks, Andrew Brown (sorry, I can't even do tildes on this recalcitrant machine...) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewsbrown (talk • contribs) 10:43, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
- That's okay, it's helpful to add them, but there's a bot that goes around patrolling talk pages and signs them automatically for you. --MrRadioGuy P T C E 22:18, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
- Hello, thanks for your quick feedback! I would be v. happy to have the page about me deleted and not recreated. Perhaps you cd share this suggestion with DubiousIrony? (I'm still finding my way around behind the scenes here...) I think it was created by publishers and just reads like a biblio. Thanks, Andrew Brown (sorry, I can't even do tildes on this recalcitrant machine...) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewsbrown (talk • contribs) 10:43, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DISCOGRAPHY
Larger works
Banjo On the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years (University Press of Mississippi, 2010).
The Blue Sky Boys (University of Illinois), in progress
Country Music Sources (with Meade & Meade) (John Edwards Memorial Forum and University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Recipient, ARSC Award for Excellence, 2003
Ethnic Music on Records (7 vols.) (University of Illinois, 1990). Recipient, ARSC Award for Excellence, 1991. Revised edition in progress.
Folk Music in America, Vols. 1-15 (Library of Congress, 1976-78). Annotated, illustrated fifteen record anthology, prepared for the American Bicentennial.
West Indian Rhythm (with Cowley, Hill et al.) (Bear Family, 2006). Book with ten compact discs.
Other publications
“Alan Lomax” (obituary), Bluegrass Unlimited, September 2002, 21.
“Bill and Ted's Excellent Discography,” VJM’s Jazz & Blues Mart 151 (Autumn 2008), 5-6.
“Bill Monroe—An Appreciation,” Bluegrass Unlimited, January 1997, 16.
“Bill Monroe—Blue Moon of Kentucky,” Bluegrass Unlimited, June 2003, 81.
“The Birth of the Blast,” Guitar Player, April 1995, 63-69.
“Buzz Busby” (obituary), Bluegrass Unlimited, March 2003, 16.
“Caribbean and South American Recordings,” in Lost Sounds (by Tim Brooks). University of Illinois Press, 2004, 522-530.
“The Commercial Recordings of Charlie Monroe,” Bluegrass Unlimited, May 1969, 3-6.
“The Curious Ancestry of ‘Midnight on the Stormy Deep’,” Bluegrass Unlimited, July 2012, 44-45.
“David Medoff: A Case Study in Interethnic Popular Culture,” American Music, vol. 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1985), 261-276 (with Mark Slobin)
“Earl Scruggs and the Sound of Genius,” Bluegrass Unlimited, June 2012, 26-32
The Encyclopedia of Country Music (Oxford, 1998, 2d ed., 2012) (Several articles)
The Encyclopedia of the Blues (Routledge, 2006) (Several articles)
“Ethnic Music and Popular Style in America,” in Folk Music and Modern Sound, edited by William Ferris and Mary L. Hart, University Press of Mississippi, 1982, 60-70.
“Forty Years and Counting,” Bluegrass Unlimited, July 2006, 42-44
“Further Notes on 'Orange Blossom Special',” Bluegrass Unlimited, September 2008, 10-11
“Guitar on 78s and Cylinders: A Survey of Pioneering Efforts,” Victrola and 78 Journal, Winter 1996, 11-17
“The Gouge,” in Annual Review of Jazz Studies 12 [2002]. Scarecrow Press, 2004, 135-145
“Gouges, Vamps, Zulus and Scronches[,] and Where They’ve Been Hiding,” VJM’s Jazz & Blues Mart 115 (Autumn 1999), 3-4.
“Gouges, Vamps, Zulus and Scronches[,] and Where They’ve Been Hiding, Part Two” VJM’s Jazz & Blues Mart 116 (Winter 1999), 4-5.
“Hobart Smith: In Sacred Trust,” Banjo Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 1 (November 2005), 10-14
“John Duffey” (obituary), Bluegrass Unlimited (November 1996), 16
“John Duffey Takes No Prisoners,” Bluegrass Unlimited (July 2006), 48
“Lonnie Johnson—The Gennett Mystery Revealed at Last,” Joslin’s Jazz Journal, vol. 20, no. 2 (May 2001), 4. Revised version in Starr Gennett News, vol. VIII, issue II (Spring 2010).
“OKeh Mysteries – Blue Labels and Beyond,” VJM’s Jazz & Blues Mart 153 (Spring 2009), 6.
“Old-Time Music and Copyright Laws” (with Tim Brooks), Old-Time Herald, vol. 11, no. 12 (September 2009), 8-10.
“Rich-R’-Tone, Mutual and Blue Ridge: Histories and Inventories” (with David Sax and Pete Kuykendall), Bluegrass Unlimited, February 2005, 24-33.
“We Ain’t ‘Fraid Nobody: Decca Calypsos in the 1930s,” ARSC Journal, vol. 31, no. 2 (Fall 2000), 224-243.
“When the Wolf Knocked on Victor’s Door,” 78 Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 5 (1990), 64-77.
“Women and the Blues,” in Nothing But the Blues (Lawrence Cohn, ed.). Abbeville, 1994, 87-105.
Compact discs
The Ace & Deuce of Pipering, Heritage 21, 1993. Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin: La Musique Créole, Arhoolie 445, 1996. The Bailes Brothers: Remember Me, Bear Family BCD 17132, 2012 The Bailes Brothers: Standing Somewhere In the Shadows, Bear Family BCD 17133, 2012 The Best of Lucille Bogan, Columbia Legacy CK 65705, 2004. Bob Wills: Liza, Pull Down the Shades, Rounder 1147 (not published) Bob Wills: Stay a Little Longer, Rounder 1146, 2001. Bob Wills: Take Me Back to Tulsa¸ Rounder 1145, 2001. Classic Ragtime, RCA Victor 09026 65206-2, 1998. The Country Gentlemen, Rebel 7508, 2003. Fire in the Mountains, Vols. 1 and 2, Yazoo 7012, 7013, 1997. Frank Hovington: Gone With the Wind, Flyright 66, 2000. From Galway to Dublin (Traditional Irish Music), Rounder 1087, 1993. Italian String Virtuosi, Rounder 1095, 1995. Jimmy Murphy: Electricity, Sugar Hill 3890, 1999.
Joseph Moskowitz: The Art of the Cymbalom, Rounder 1126, 1996.
Klezmer Pioneers: European and American Recordings, 1905-1952, Rounder 1089, 1993. Milestone at the Garden (Irish Fiddle Masters), Rounder 1123, 1996. Mississippi Fred McDowell, Rounder 2138, 1995. Mississippi John Hurt: Avalon Blues, Flyright 06, 1989. Mississippi John Hurt: D.C. Blues, Fuel 2000 302 061 407 2, 2004. Mississippi John Hurt: D.C. Blues Vol. 2, Fuel 2000 302 061 495 2, 2004. Naftule Brandwein—King of the Klezmer Clarinet, Rounder 1127, 1997. Polish Village Music 1927-1933, Arhoolie Folklyric 7031, 1995. Portuguese String Music 1908-1931, Heritage 05, 1989. Rain Dropping on the Banana Tree, Rounder 1125, 1996. Raw Fiddle, Rounder Select 82161-1160-2, 2004. Rembetica: Historic Urban Folk Songs from Greece, Rounder 1079, 1992. Sacred Voices: An A Capella Gospel Collection, Sugar Hill 3898, 2001. Skip James/Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers, Biograph 122, 1992. The Slide Guitar, Columbia Legacy CK 46218, 1990.
Squeeze Play: A World Accordion Anthology, Rounder 1090, 1997.
Strange Creek Singers, Arhoolie 9003, 1997. Train 45: Railroad Songs of the Early 1900’s, Rounder 1143, 1996. Ukrainian Village Music, Arhoolie Folklyric 7030, 1994. Vintage Music from India, Rounder 1083, 1993. Wade Mainer/I'm Not Looking Backward, Gusto GT2-0957-2, 2006. A Warrior on the Battlefield: A Capella Trail Blazers, 1920’s-1940’s, Rounder 1137, 1997.
Masters of Turkish Music compact discs (with Karl Signell and Munir Beken)
Masters of Turkish Music, Rounder 1051, 1990.
Masters of Turkish Music, Volume 2, Rounder 1111, 1996. Haydar Haydar—Masters of Turkish Music, Rounder 821611-1140-2, 2003.
Calypso/Caribbean compact discs
Calypso Breakaway, 1927-1941, Rounder 1054, 1990. Calypso Carnival, 1936-1941, Rounder 1077, 1993. Calypso Ladies, Heritage 06, 1991. Calypso Pioneers, 1912-1937, Rounder 1039, 1989. Calypsos from Trinidad: Politics, Intrigue & Violence in the 1930s, Arhoolie Folklyric 7004, 1991. The Cuban Danzón: Before There Was Jazz, 1906-1929, Arhoolie Folklyric 7032, 1999. Fall of Man: Calypsos on the Human Condition, 1935-1941, Rounder 1141, 1999. History of Carnival, Matchbox 301-2, 1993. Hot Music from Cuba 1907-1937, Harlequin 23, 1993. Lovey's Original Trinidad String Band, Calypso Dawn, 1912. Bear Family BCD 16057, 2012 Martinique: “Au Bal Antillais” Franco-Créole Biguines, Arhoolie Folklyric 7013, 1992. The Music of Cuba 1909-1951, Columbia Legacy CK 62234, 2000. The Music of Puerto Rico, Harlequin 22, 1992. Roosevelt in Trinidad: Calypsos 1933-39, Rounder 1142, 1999.
Shango, Shouter and Obeah, Rounder 1107, 2001.
Trinidad Loves to Play Carnival 1914-1939, Matchbox 302-2, 1993. Trinidad 1912-1941, Harlequin 16, 1992. West Indian Rhythm, Bear Family BCD 16623, 2006. ARSC Award, 2007
Book and compact disc sets
Charlie Monroe: I'm Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family, 2007). Book with four compact discs. Winner, Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2008.
Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Four (with Marcus, Fahey et al.). Revenant 211 (book with two compact discs), 2000.
How Low Can You Go? (Dust to Digital, 2006). Book with three compact discs.
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973. Rebel , 1995. Booklet with four compact discs.
Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton (with Evans, Fahey, Komara et. al). Revenant 212 (book with seven compact discs), 2001. Winner, ARSC Award for Excellence 2002.
West Indian Rhythm (with Cowley, Hill et al.) (Bear Family, 2006). Book with ten compact discs.
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