Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arlington Independent Media


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The result was keep.  Sandstein  21:22, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Arlington Independent Media

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Fails WP:GNG. No coverage outside of local media and even that is limited. Rusf10 (talk) 01:41, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 04:56, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * Merge with WERA-LP. w umbolo   ^^^  13:39, 22 March 2018 (UTC)  Can't access the newly provided references. I can see that (at least) one ref explicitly talks about this in the title, so this would be a K from me.  w umbolo   ^^^  17:26, 26 March 2018 (UTC) Keep. Indepth coverage on WaPo.  w umbolo   ^^^  18:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep This is (and has long been) a large and active outfit.  An enormous amount of coverage - including details on various series that it produced over the 30+ years the station has operated - is available in back issues of the Washington Post.  I added a handful of broader picture WaPo feature stories to the article which is, I think, now adequately sourced to pass notability.  Also added a detailed profile of the station form the Boston Globe, detailing a major transition in 2003 that broadened both funding and mission.     w umbolo   ^^^   Did the TV station spawn the radio station, I seem to recall seeing that in one of the articles I read, or, is there some other relationship between the two?  We should consider how best to connect the two articles.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:41, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I added a brief, sourced sentence and link to page, describing Arlington Media's creation of WERA-LP.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:50, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Here are searches in WaPo on 'Arlington Community Television" (the station's original name):, and []. (I think these searches are open source.)  INDEPTH coverage of various aspects of this station over 3 decades is not hard to find.  It even shows up in books.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:33, 26 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Weak keep - several of the links are inaccessible, requiring a ProQuest account, so I'm basing my vote on the number and reputation of the sources. On a related note, I started marking the ProQuest links as dead on another AfD since they are inaccessible to most, but am wondering if there's a policy about not marking these types of links as dead? TimTempleton (talk)  (cont)  20:41, 26 March 2018 (UTC)


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