Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fadak (TV channel)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) -- Sam Sailor Talk! 13:25, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Fadak (TV channel)

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Reason Samaneh-davoudi (talk) 08:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC) More content of the article don't have any sources. A few of them have, but their accuracy is controversial. Because of that the notability of the article is imprecise. According to Wikipedia:Notability, Only being one of the TV channels (or being famous) does not mean that is notable. So it should be deleted.Samaneh-davoudi (talk) 08:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep The WP:GNG seems to be covered; even something as simple as a Google News search for Fadak, Fadak channel and Fadak TV reveal coverage across a wide range of sources (Press TV, Middle East Forum, Al Monitor, The Economist, Al Arabiya The Daily Mail, etc.) spanning over multiple unrelated controveries associated with the station such as instances of hate speech, support for terrorism and political conflict in the Mideast. While I am not sure what specific criterion a news organization might fall under, this Fadak station does seem to bear mildly significant, sustained coverage across at least three years and would also seem to satisfy WP:ORG. MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:41, 15 February 2015 (UTC)


 *  Delete At wikipedia article, We have to be careful that being notable doesn't mean being famous. The Notability must be verifiable and this is proven by the use of reliable sources in articles But there isn't any source at the article that established the notability.If there are reliable sources, why not have been used of them at the article? As far as I know, there isn't any contents that is prohibited at wikipedia.Samaneh-davoudi (talk) 08:16, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: I have struck out 's !vote above, as they are the nominator. -- Sam Sing! 10:49, 19 February 2015 (UTC)


 * DeleteFadak is not notable enough to warrant its own article. The searches carried out above by MezzoMezzo shows Fadak with various qualifiers getting between 37 and 136 results. Other random news channels from the category international news channels such as Al-Nile, eNCA and Kompas TV get between 35,000 to 250,000 hits on google news. The channel is simply not notable enough and giving it, its own article is free advertising. Mbcap (talk) 16:42, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep, per searches for:, , and . &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:39, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * DeleteThere are several satellite channel in the world and all of them are not important. Several channel are local and are for specific people or religious. The Fadak is not notable channel and this is for promoting a negative ideas about Muslim and defamation towards religious and historic characters. Also, there is not any source at the article and It seems to writing according to personal idea.Charm4Fasl (talk) 10:27, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Sam Sing! 10:50, 19 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep Seems to be enough coverage, just needs a lot of cleanup. StewdioMACK Talk page 08:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

You can search the Fadak in wikipedia and you see many pages with this name but only one of them is about Fadak, TV channel. In google search is like this. Fadak is the name of village, Islamic center, shopping, school and so on.Samaneh-davoudi (talk) 08:35, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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