What to write about
Corrections first. If a year, a label or a name is wrong on any page, send the correction and a source and it will be fixed and dated.
Suggestions next. Name the station the record belongs to and which of the five it should replace — a list of five only improves if something leaves it.
Arguments are welcome too. Every page carries one opinion precisely so that it can be argued with.
What not to expect
No playlist submissions, no paid placements, no guest posts, no link exchanges. These get deleted without an answer.
No stream. This has been asked enough times to belong here: Nocturne has never broadcast anything and is not planning to.
What happens to a correction
It gets checked against the source you send, and against whatever the page was built on. If the two disagree, the one with a document behind it wins.
If the correction holds, the page changes and the revision date at the foot of the site moves. Nothing is quietly edited: the sources page says where every claim about the station came from, and a claim that turns out to be wrong is removed rather than softened.
If it does not hold, you get an answer saying why. That is the whole process; there is no editorial board.
The faces on the records
William Gottlieb photographed the New York clubs between 1938 and 1948 for Down Beat and the Washington Post. The Library of Congress holds the negatives; the pictures are in the public domain.
