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"Fox" or "FOX"?

I noticed some revert wars regarding the Fox branding on several articles on Fox-owned stations. The official name of the network is not all uppercase, but that is how the company prefers it.

So, do we call it "Fox" or "FOX"? You decide.

See my response at Talk:WNYW. Rollosmokes 07:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

New logo

WFLD is also the first Fox UHF O&O to adopt a logo similar to that of sister WTVT. Since it is branded Fox Chicago and not Fox 32, there had been questions as to what the logo would look like.

So, since we don't have a version of the logo and the new web site doesn't really feature it, what does it look like? I'm curious. Describe it as well as you can, preferably in terms of the versions of logos we do have. Morgan Wick 04:12, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Fox News Chicago --CFIF (talk to me) 12:02, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

That works too. Morgan Wick 22:14, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Old Logos

What happened to all the old logos that used to be on this page?--jonrev 20:26, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:TheTEN.png

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Headings

The Misplaced Pages Manual of Style on heading (WP:HEAD) says that:

• headings within articles should not contain wikilinks -- the links should be included in the text of the section instead;
• the Misplaced Pages style for capitalizing headings is to use "sentence case" instead of "title case", e.g.,

Important things to know about this subject

not:

Important Things to Know About This Subject

This may be unfamiliar to many editors who believe that or have been taught that "title case is the right way to capitalize headings". It isn't the "right way", it is one style. Misplaced Pages has, for better or worse, chosen to follow a different style, i.e., capitalize the heading the same way you would capitalize any sentence:

• capitalize the first word,
• capitalize any proper nouns (people, places, organizations), and
• begin all other words with lower case letters

In addition, I have changed the heading "On-Air Talent" to "On-air staff". "Talent" is industry jargon. It does not describe the position or the work. It is meaningless to readers unfamiliar with American broadcast industry jargon, and is not appropriate for an encyclopedia. "Staff" indicates that these people are being listed because they work for the station. Ground Zero | t 11:15, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Number formatting

The Misplaced Pages Manual of Style on number formatting (WP:MOSNUM) says that:

• Misplaced Pages style is to use "a.m." and "p.m.", not other variations such as "AM" and "PM", or "am", "pm";
• decades should be indicated as "1990s", not "1990's" or "90's" or "90s"
• numbers ten and under should normally be spelled out in a sentence instead of using the digits.

Ground Zero | t 11:15, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Fomrer ON air talent

Hi. As long as its ok with everyone, I am going to restore the material that was deleted on the Chicago stations and will also tag the section as unreferenced. This gives me and other editors a chance to locate sources and make some editorial decisions rather than having almost the entire list deleted as unreferenced and apparently non-notable. Thanks NoSuchThing85 (talk) 20:38, 8 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by NoSuchThing85 (talk • contribs)

Correcting/Editing On-Air talent list/Former Staff lists , etc....

I noticed a few things listed that were incorrect on the WFLD page that I felt needed fixing. However, there appears to be questions/concerns about the changes I made. That said, I will give my reasons why I made these changes and you can choose to debate this if you want. Note that I'm not going to engage in an editing/un-editing war as that is not productive.

Larry Yellen is both the legal analyst and investigative reporter for WFLD and has been for more than an decade. He has currently taken on the role as weekend anchor on a temporary basis following the firing of both Byron Harlan (in March) and Nancy Pender (in August). You can simply type his, Nancy's and Byron's name in Google and get links from a wide range of sources like the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times as as evidence of these facts. Larry has not been named weekend anchor and shouldn't be listed as such.

As those of us who both live in Chicago and watch WFLD newscasts regularly know, Jill Carlson's last day was Sunday (8/29), Nancy Pender's was two weeks prior to that and so on. There has been a number of changes both behind the scenes and on-air at WFLD over the past year since Mike Renda arrived a year ago this week to WFLD as GM.

I think that is important that as a on-line community that we provide accurate information. It's also key that we not assume something is wrong without checking it out first.

JMSBZR (talk) 04:06, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

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