Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of radio stations


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The result was Delete. --Luigi30 (Ta&lambda;k) 12:50, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

List of radio stations

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There are thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of radio stations all over the world, this list has managed to name 18 of them. Duplicates what is already covered by Category:Lists of radio stations, and the list can never achieve what is states: "a list of radio stations that are located on Earth" (And why just "Earth"? It's a shame to leave out all the radio stations located on the Moon. ) Saikokira 01:09, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. Indeed, why just Earth? perhaps the author meant terrestrial as opposed to satellite? This COULD BE a useful navigation page, but I'm not sure it actually fulfills this role, although it is linked to the Radio station page, as well as to a minority of other 'Country' lists of radio stations. As one drills down into the different continents, regions, countries, one finds many of these are riddled with spamlinks. I don't quite see what the successive authors had in mind when they started listing individual radio stations, so this page needs just to be stripped of the radio stations named to fulfill the principal role of navigation. Note: All lists of radio stations need to be pruned of their excessive external links. Ohconfucius 01:43, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Surely, - surely! - this is something that must already be already covered by country, as in: List of radio stations in France, List of radio stations in Germany. Delete as unnecessary list. Eusebeus 07:00, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * MASS DELETE Categorised and delete the lot, even the sub lists. This will remove spam links as well, if they aren't notable enough to have a page, there is no point in listing them.--Dacium 07:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment American radio stations are tightly controlled by the FCC and are limited enough in quantity that they are likely all notable. Checking the local stations for where I live reveals that about 90% of them DO have their own articles. Imban 07:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment American radio stations are among the least controlled on Earth. There are over 12,500 radio stations in the US, most of which are low-power and local in nature and are not notable simply because they haven't gained any third-party coverage. Most countries have a few dozen stations. If anything, I'd think that the average US station would be significantly less notable than the average station in another country if only because there are so many of them and most of them are incredibly obscure to all but local listeners. -- Charlene 09:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: we have categories for this sort of thing, where all the various national and regional lists can be found. --RFBailey 10:08, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Unnecessary and duplicative.  Jody B   14:43, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, duplicates a category. I love the line about this being a list of all stations "on Earth." Where, pray tell, is the article for the list of stations on Mars or Jupiter? Inquiring minds want to know!!! Realkyhick 18:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Are we looking at the same article? I see a page with links to the lists of radio stations by continent, which are at different levels of completion. is it intended to delete only the parent page? True, a category would do, but I do not see the reason to delete the small page, since it leads logically to further levels.  And at least one of the comments above seems to intend to remove them all, including the further lists into which they divide. Some AfDs for individual stations have come here, the results vary, with a division between those who wish for articles on all, and those who want to make a distinction. (There's no help in specific policy, for Notability (TV and radio stations)  is inactive, having never reached consensus after a very anemic discussion.) If not all stations are to have separate articles, a list approach would seem more appropriate by categories. I think the various possibilities raised above need some considerable discussion. DGG 00:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep I have to agree with DGG, I think this article, and its sub-pages can all be of value. Indeed, there are countless radio stations out there, and a list including them all would be a logistical nightmare and nearly impossible to maintain accurately. However, all articles on Wikipedia must meet a standard of notability, so the radio stations mentioned on the list would have to be judged by that same standard. It is not improbable that someone may turn to Wikipedia to try to find such a list, and the breakdown by region makes it much more valuable. Granted, the list as it is is currently incomplete, there should be no external links, only wikilinks, and countries shouldn't be added to the list until there are some entries under their headings, but I think that this list could work. - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 23:56, 7 May 2007 (UTC)


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