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Merge or disambiguation?[edit]

Should we merge the WQED-FM and WQED-TV articles into one WQED article (like the WGBH article), or should we keep them seperate and change the WQED article from a redirect to the TV station to a disambiguation page? (WQEX can remain seperate, as it isn't quite a public television station these days...) 24.61.119.222 16:15, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

while it's never reason enough to do something simply because it's done at another article, this would probably work quite well for these two stations.

Isn't being a "community owned" station what being a PBS station is all about?[edit]

Thus making WQED the first "Public" "Broadcasting" "Station" in the world? Hholt01 01:09, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

no, other entities can own a station and still have it be public, i.e. schools, governments, unions...

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please don't change the article from WQED-TV, that is how tv stations in the usa are known. and don't link programs to neighbourhoods, it makes no sense.

One article vs. three[edit]

There is currently a disambiguation page titled WQED. Rather than having three articles (WQED, WQED-TV, WQED-FM), they could all be merged into WQED. The radio page is a stub, and the television page gives information about both. It would provide for easier navigation of the pages--Questions99 (talk) 16:17, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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(WQED) accepted a high-VHF to low-VHF bid[edit]

FCC TV station Repacking info form https://www.rabbitears.info/blog/ and http://current.org/2017/04/prompted-by-auction-sales-moves-to-low-vhf-bring-both-challenges-and-advantages/

RabbitEars Repacking Tools By Trip Ericson on Thursday, April 13 2017, 13:42

To break down the 30 band-changers:

16 stations accepted UHF to low-VHF bids.
1 station (WQED) accepted a high-VHF to low-VHF bid.
13 stations accepted UHF to high-VHF bids.

Can FCC source be found and the main page updated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dondoughty (talk • contribs) 22:03, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested edits[edit]

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. The request was not formatted correctly (see reply below for more information).

Black Horizons ended in 2010. Source: https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2010/08/11/wqed-replaces-black-horizonsmixed-reaction-to-loss-of-exclusive-black-program/
QED Cooks: "celebrates and cooks" should be singular, given the plural hosts.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: recommend clarifying that Family Communications became Fred Rogers Productions
Analog-to-digital conversion: WQED-TV appears on virtual channel 13 but was actually assigned the frequency of "low VHF channel 4" in the 2019 spectrum repack. Sources: https://pbskidsgo.fandom.com/wiki/WQED_Schedule, https://triblive.com/aande/tv-qa-will-wqed-tv-ever-boost-its-signal/ and https://www.wqed.org/rescan
Sculpture: This photo depicts "Tower Iron, Sculpture #5" by Joseph Goto, which was moved in 2020 from WQED to the Hartwood Acres Park Sculpture Garden. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41edOr8g3t8 and https://acparksfoundation.org/projects/sculpture-garden/goto/

PGHneighbor (talk) 02:55, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 29-SEP-2023[edit]

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Change the Sun's diameter to 864,337.3 miles, currently is only says that it is 2,000 miles. And the Sun's temperature is wrong, recommend correcting it according to the following sources.

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In the example above there are three URL's provided with the claim statements, but these URL's have not been placed using Citation Style 1, which is the style predominantly used by the WQED (TV) article. Additionally, ref tags have not been placed within the text at the exact positions where the information they reference resides. Instead, directions were placed in the request about what to fix. Directions can be included, but you need to phrase the text as how it shall appear in the article. Using the correct style and the correct positioning of the ref tags, the proposed WikiFormatted text should resemble the following:

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The Sun's diameter is 864,337.3 miles,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sjöblad|first1=Tristan|title=The Sun|url=http://www.booksource.com|publisher=Academic Press|date=2020|page=1}}</ref> while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Harinath|first1=Prisha|title=Size of the Moon|journal=Science|issue=78|volume=51|url=http://www.journalsource.com|date=2020|page=46}}</ref> The Sun's temperature is 5,778 Kelvin.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Uemura|first1=Shu|title=The Sun's Heat|url=http://www.websource.com|publisher=Academic Press|date=2020|page=2}}</ref>

Which displays as:

The Sun's diameter is 864,337.3 miles,^[1] while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles.^[2] The Sun's temperature is 5,778 Kelvin.^[3]

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^ Sjöblad, Tristan. The Sun. Academic Press, 2020, p. 1.

^ Harinath, Prisha. "Size of the Moon", Science, 51(78):46. 2020.

^ Uemura, Shū. The Sun's Heat. Academic Press, 2020, p. 2.

In the example above the references have been formatted according to Citation Style 1, which shows the author, the source's name, date, etc. Also, the ref tags are placed in the exact location where the text which they reference resides. Finally, the exact, verbatim text that is to be added to the article has been included with the request. As Wikipedia is a volunteer project, edit requests such yours are generally expected to have this formatting done before the request is submitted for review.

Kindly write a new edit request so that it aligns more with the second example shown in the collapsed section above, and feel free to re-submit that edit request below this reply post at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions about this formatting please don't hesitate to ask myself or another editor. Regards, Spintendo 21:05, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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^ The use of bare URLs as references is a style which is acceptable for use in Wikipedia. However, general practice dictates that the style already in use for an article be the one that is subsequently used for all future additions unless changed by editorial consensus.

[noteFoot01a] Sjöblad, Tristan. The Sun. Academic Press, 2020, p. 1.

[noteFoot02a] Harinath, Prisha. "Size of the Moon", Science, 51(78):46. 2020.

[noteFoot03a] Uemura, Shū. The Sun's Heat. Academic Press, 2020, p. 2.

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