Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of radio stations in the United Kingdom


 * 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) Jovanmilic97 (talk) 15:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

List of radio stations in the United Kingdom

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Not a single in-line reference, many clearly not notable (hospital and racecourse stations?), unsourced junk list basically. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  15:09, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Probably accurate when created, now unmaintainable. Note: the radio section of Template:Media in the United Kingdom links to several sections of this article. --Wire723 (talk) 16:30, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment The article is accurately maintained and is up-to-date.
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:52, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:52, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:52, 8 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep but limit to broadcast stations. Not hard to source any of those I would have thought, and they will all be notable. --Michig (talk) 18:28, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep This article is a very useful resource regarding the radio scene in the UK. It's not an unsourced junk list, not least because the vast majority of the UK's stations have their own Wikipedia article. Rillington (talk) 18:38, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep A list on a notable topic. Sourcing and notability issues for each entry can be addressed via the article's talkpage, as AfD is not for cleanup.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 18:44, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lists of notable things have value on Wikipedia as a navigation aid, especially in situations like radio stations, where the category tree is divided up among multiple subcategories (by format, by owner, by city, by the England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland distinction, etc.) rather than serving as a one-stop shopping list. If the problem is that it's unreferenced, references can easily be added. If the problem is that it's outdated, it can easily be brought up to date. If the problem is that it contains non-notable entries, then non-notable entries can easily be removed. AFD is not cleanup: there are certainly special cases where an article has such egregiously irreparable problems that blowing it up and starting over from scratch is preferable to just trying to fix the problems, but the problems here aren't even close to needing dynamite. Bearcat (talk) 21:32, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep This ain't getting deleted and it certainly isn't 'junk' by any stretch of the imagination. Many of the stations have their own articles, we can clean up the list rather easily and asking us to TNT an article because you have some weird issue with special stations (and I've loathed the UK hospital station articles being deleted solely for not being commercial/wide enough) is unacceptable.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 02:00, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Loliamawesome (talk) 16:45, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep This would seem to be a useful list and the sort of article that people would expect to find on Wikipedia. as noted above if some of the entries on the list are not notable then that is an argument for editing this list to remove them, not for deleting the whole thing. Dunarc (talk) 21:52, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Valid list. Inline referencing isn't a necessity with navigational lists so long as each blue linked entry has evidence of it fitting the list criteria. Ajf773 (talk) 19:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


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