Talk:KHLO

A fact from KHLO appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the owner of a radio station in Hawaii changed its call letters to KIMO because the Hawaiian name Kimo translates to Jim, the owner's name?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KHLO.

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 16:46, 16 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that after burning down, Hilo radio station KILA was saved from a six-month-long silence because another company had just shipped a radio transmitter to Hawaii the previous week? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76936231/
- ALT1:... that the owner of a radio station in Hawaii changed its call letters to KIMO because the Hawaiian name Kimo is translated to Jim, the owner's name? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76936462/backstage-with-eddie-sherman-tropical/

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pentium FDIV bug
Comment: About 1300 characters readable prose comes from KKON (DYK 2019) but the article has enough original prose to qualify for 5x.

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 21:15, 3 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Just one more thing - I am no expert or a regular in radio articles, but is it possible to expand the article with more "recent" and "regular" stuffs (e.g. what kind of topics does it currently broadcasts)? It would be better if readers in the region where the radio station stands could at least recognize the radio station. If not then it is ok. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 13:41, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeromi Mikhael: King's owns radio stations but they don't really say what they do with them! Trust me—I went looking high and low for information on the station's current programming and came up very empty. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:18, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I feel you — I've had the same experience in writing military biographies, most of the sources only talk about their constantly changing position and not what they do during that position! My request is not compulsory, just wanted to know if it is possible or not. Here's an

. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 18:18, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]