Talk:Media in Boston

Digital subchannels on FM and TV bands

With the advent of HD Radio subchannels on the FM radio band, there are many more programs being broadcast. For example, WGBH-FM has news and public affairs on the main channel, classical music on the 2nd channel, and a rebroadcast of WCAI on the 3rd channel. Similarly, there are digital subchannels on many of the TV channels. Perhaps the tables in this article should be expanded in a manner similar to the article Media in New York City? Reify-tech (talk) 19:29, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

ELs here

@Bearcat removed some external links recently (Commonwealth Magazine, Winchester Star). I think that's a mistake, and this article should probably be an exception to WP:ELNO for links to the publications in question. Because this article basically is a list, and the links are canonical representations of those publications, and not all the publications have wikipedia pages. Also, I tend to think the links should be moved up directly into the listing rather than in footnotes where they are in many cases. But I wouldn't wnat to make either of those that changes without consensus. Thoughts? jhawkinson (talk) 14:09, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

The primary purpose of a list is to direct people to Wikipedia articles, not to serve as a web directory to things' own pages — lists can contain internal links if a Wikipedia article exists, or can include unlinked names if a Wikipedia article does not (and even that is ruled out in some lists, if consensus determines that the topic is too open-ended and too vulnerable to WP:NOTDIRECTORY abuse by publicity-seeking wannabes, such as List of hip hop musicians), but they cannot simply list offsite links to the topic's own self-published website about itself in lieu of a Wikipedia article. The purpose of a Wikipedia list is not to serve as an advertising or search engine optimization platform to help non-notable topics increase their website's visibility — the core purpose of a list is to help steer people to Wikipedia content.

And at any rate, you're not making any argument that this list is somehow special in needing to be treated differently than the standard rules that apply to any other list — anybody could claim that the same reasoning for suspending WP:ELNO rules applies to any list, and you've shown no compelling reason why community newspapers in Boston should be any sort of special case. Bearcat (talk) 14:17, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

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