Talk:WFLA-TV

STOP SCREWING AROUND

Whoever the bonehead is who screwed up the anchor years, thanks a lot! It was, with absolute certainty, accurate to a "T". Now, it's messed up and totally inaccurate for a number of personalities.

The Bob Hite link goes to a different Bob Hite... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.89.130 (talk) 14:54, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Significant trimming of Former Staff section

I just cut everyone out of the alumni section that does not have their own Wikipedia page or have a reference to establish their notability. This is the current consensus procedure, based on discussions at WP:WikiProject Television Stations and at the Village Pump. The rationales are as follows:

1. Most importantly, per WP:NOT, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information." As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.
2. Secondarily, per WP:V, we cannot include information that is not verifiable and sourced. I'm not certain how it would even be possible to source this information.
3. Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

All of the people with their own pages are notable enough to appear on this list. However, if you look at pages about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of info, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). Qwyrxian (talk) 02:45, 16 August 2010 (UTC)