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Radio Stations

This template is within the scope of WikiProject Radio Stations, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of radio stations on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Radio StationsWikipedia:WikiProject Radio StationsTemplate:WikiProject Radio StationsRadio station articles

This template was considered for merging with Template:Infobox broadcast on 9 December 2010. The result of the discussion was "no consensus".

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T. Carter Ross (August 13, 2020). "Wikipedia Updates Radio Infoboxes". Radio World.

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Incorporating some parameters from Template:Infobox company

Couldn't some parameters from Template:Infobox company be incorporated into this template, so many articles about radio stations in Japan don't have to place both templates? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 03:55, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Webcast -- raw LiveStream URL vs Website Player URL?

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)[reply]

Slogan not in the infobox.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

CS1 errors: invisible characters

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)[reply]

@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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]