Template talk:Infobox radio station
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Possibly broken TemplateData — issues with Visual Editor
[edit]Webcast -- raw LiveStream URL vs Website Player URL?
[edit]In the template, the Webcast entry is defined as "Live streaming URL of radio station, using [URL Listen Live]"
How is the "Live streaming URL" intended to be interpreted?
For every station that has a livestream there is the actual stream URL which maybe hosted by a third party. Many stations also have a ListenLive player on their web site which connects to the actual livestream URL.
Should there not be two optional entries in the template -- one for the raw livestream URL and one for the website player?
On some radio station pages on Wikipedia I see the URL of the player rather than the raw livestream on the radio station web page and this is somewhat redundant since most of the home pages of radio stations have a ListenLive at the top of the page to the web player and the home page URL of the radio station is already present in the template, whereas the actual livestream URL is most helpful if it is needed for use with software media players (mplayer, vlc etc) or Internet Radio device services (FrontierSilicon, vTuner etc). 107.183.39.233 (talk) 14:44, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
Slogan not in the infobox.
[edit]I noticed that the slogan is not in the add options for this info box it used to be in here before. Why isn’t in the info box choices? 120.28.224.231 (talk) 15:21, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
- It was removed by consensus as overly promotional and in line with similar decisions in other infoboxes. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio Stations/Archive 2021#Removing slogan parameter from Infobox radio station and Infobox television station. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:32, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
CS1 errors: invisible characters
[edit]There are several radio station articles with this infobox in Category:CS1 errors: invisible characters, such as KABW. Is there a problem with the infobox causing the issue, or is it improper use of the infobox parameters, or something else? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:50, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- @GoingBatty The facility_id parameter expects just a number, because it's an input for URLs. KABW and KAHU had a reference in there. I can clean these up. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:53, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Some of these are awkward cases where an infobox is covering multiple stations and needs parameter generation suppressed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:55, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Highly related: we're getting rid of templates that generated now-outdated external links. {{Infobox radio station}} has the ability to, with a parameter addition, generate modern equivalents to the links itself. But there are complex edge cases (KCII (AM) has two facilities in one infobox) as well as referencing issues. The reference is generated now automatically with the parameter added by bot. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:58, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Some of these are awkward cases where an infobox is covering multiple stations and needs parameter generation suppressed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:55, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
FCC public file not linking correctly
[edit]Right, so I understand from the documentation how if the licensing authority is the FCC, entering the facility ID will cause it to automatically link to the FCC's public file, with AM or FM being automatically detected. However, on the wiki article for WHBT-FM, the template is automatically linking to a (nonexistent) AM public file when it instead should be linking to WHBT-FM's existing public file. I don't know enough about how this works to fix it. Any thoughts? RexSueciae (talk) 23:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- @RexSueciae To determine if a station is AM or FM for public file purposes, the infobox uses whether the
|power=
(AM) or|erp=
(FM) parameter has been set. You should not see|power=
on an FM—and that's what caused the error at WHBT-FM. I have fixed this. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)- Thank you! RexSueciae (talk) 00:49, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Turns out more than half the FMs in Hampton Roads had the same problem, @RexSueciae. I would check any FM page in User:Neutralhomer's editing range (especially Virginia) for this error, as this issue had lurked on these pages since creation in 2007, and I saw it on at least one page in another part of Virginia. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:04, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! RexSueciae (talk) 00:49, 3 September 2024 (UTC)