Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/600 AM Vancouver


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The result was delete. Deleting as WP:TOOSOON as this station does not exactly exist yet. Joyous! | Talk 01:17, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

600 AM Vancouver

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Delete. Two WP:TOOSOON articles about planned future radio stations which received their license approvals from the CRTC yesterday (and I do mean literally within the past 24 hours), but have not yet actually commenced broadcasting as required by WP:NMEDIA. While it's true that Wikipedia used to let licensed but not yet launched radio stations hold a presumption of notability because of the license approval itself, we don't anymore -- there have been far too many radio stations that got approved but then failed for one reason or another to actually get off the ground and had their licenses expire unbuilt, so consensus is now much stricter that a radio station does not get an article until it's actually on the air. No prejudice against recreation once the stations are actually transmitting signals, but "newly licensed future station which still exists only on paper as of today" is not enough in and of itself for a Wikipedia article anymore. Bearcat (talk) 17:03, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:06, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:06, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: General note: Two articles are nominated for deletion herein. North America1000 18:55, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 18:55, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Also agree that it is WP:TOOSOON. Maybe the station will fail, and the article will be entirely pointless. --FuzzyGopher (talk) 19:06, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete both; radio stations that have just been licensed don't quite have the presumption of notability for broadcast stations, and it's too soon to say if these two newly-licensed stations ever will, especially since both stations have until November 28, 2018 to commence operations (and they can request extensions of time if necessary). The 600 AM station's licensee, Sher-E-Punjab Radio Broadcasting Inc., has previously leased a US-based station, KRPI (in the process running afoul of the CRTC; also of note, that company name currently redirects to KRPI), so something about their planned station could be mentioned in KRPI's article (which already mentions an earlier Sher-E-Punjab application for 600 in Vancouver that the CRTC denied in 2014), but there's no need for a separate article yet. -- WC  Quidditch  &#9742;   &#9998;  22:53, 6 December 2016 (UTC)


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