Talk:GLOSS FM

Thornbury FM was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 02 December 2012 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into GLOSS FM. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

This article was nominated for deletion on 17 November 2012 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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As requested by another editor, this is a note to say the creator of this page (radiohead319) is a director of the holding company (Severnvale Media CIC) of GLOSS FM. Radiohead319 (talk) 12:49, 8 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

I have noticed someone has added a note saying citations are needed. This is somewhat frustrating after having all my hard work removed (which had plenty of cross references) by someone who thought the article had too many references!! The station's existence can be verified by asking any of its licencing authorities - namely Ofcom (the Broadcasting Regulator in the UK), or royalty bodies such as PRS, PPL and MCPS. Unfortunately none of these authorities publishes licensing details on the web, so this request will have to be done in writing or phone using their publicaly available communication details. I have added a reference to the Community Media Association, and this, along with the noted newspaper articles can be taken as evidence of existence of the station. I will therefore remove the flag requesting citation. If particular details of the article require verification, then you need to discuss this with the person who removed all the references that I inserted into the earlier version of the article. If you prefer my version with references, please feel free to restore them (apparently as the author I am not permitted by Wiki rules to restore them as I am considered to be biased!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Radiohead319 (talk • contribs) 22:00, 21 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Those weren't references, they were simply inline external links. See WP:CITE and check out {{Cite web}} if you want to know how to properly cite sourced. --Simple Bob ^{a.k.a. The Spaminator} (Talk) 22:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Well I've read that page and I still cannot see the issue. The citations were added using numbers in the body text with the actual references at the bottom. Can I suggest you add a citation as an example to understand what you are looking for? Radiohead319 (talk) 18:07, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

The problem is that the article needs additional references. There is nothing wrong with the ones that are there right now. --Simple Bob ^{a.k.a. The Spaminator} (Talk) 12:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

So how many citations required to get the ugly "Citations needed" box removed??Radiohead319 (talk) 12:22, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

More than it has now i.e. until everything that could/should reasonably be cited by an external reference has been added. As for ugly, there's nothing wrong with the tag, it just means that the article needs to be improved. As a director of the holding company perhaps you are getting too involved with the article. I know you understand Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy because of your post at the top of this page, but perhaps you should also read WP:OWN and understand that nobody owns Wikipedia articles (or can claim ownership) and that it is a community effort to improve on articles. --Simple Bob ^{a.k.a. The Spaminator} (Talk) 12:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Reply