Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of television stations in Serbia and Montenegro


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 02:19, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

List of television stations in Serbia and Montenegro

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This is a highly unlikely title for a user to type into the search bar. No articles link here. This disambiguation page serves no discernable purpose. Neelix (talk) 14:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep - it is a genuine disambiguation page.--Avala (talk) 14:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as nominator - According to guidelines, Disambiguation in Wikipedia is the process of resolving conflicts in article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic, making that term likely to be the natural title for more than one article. "List of television stations in Serbia and Montenegro" is not a single term, nor is it the natural title for any article, let alone multiple articles. Neelix (talk) 16:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: some of the TV stations broadcast in both countries.--Avala (talk) 17:04, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Serbia and Montenegro was at some point in the past one single state, so having "Serbia and Montenegro" as a country in a "list of tv stations in"-list seems perfectly reasonable. It might not be used often, but it's not entirely out of the question. - Mgm|(talk) 20:08, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Although it's an abnormal disambiguation page, it's because of the abnormal state of the country/countries. Of course, we don't need a similar list for Poland-Lithuania, because that union ended a long time ago; but because S-and-M dissolved just a few years ago, it's not unlikely that someone who was looking for lists of TV stations in former countries would type this in.  We really should have something at this page (would it make sense to confuse the reader?) to prevent confusion, and a disambiguation page is the best way to accomplish this.  Nyttend (talk) 05:53, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per the above, but I think that rather than be a disambiguation page this should list the TV stations that broadcast in the country of Serbia and Montenegro while it existed, with "see also" links to the lists for the present-day countries. Anyway, that's a content issue for editing and/or talk page discussion, not for AfD. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Alright, let's ask ourselves a few questions to figure out how absurd this whole thing really is: A) Will any articles actually link to this respective page? B) Is there a purpose of having these two joined together when one can be resolved and the other found easily. It's as if we created a page for United States and Mexico just to link to United States and Mexico. This is absurd. Yanksox (talk) 04:07, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. There was never a country called "United States and Mexico", but there was one called "Serbia and Montenegro", so that that analogy does not make this article absurd. Phil Bridger (talk) 12:14, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment -- What the nominator failed to point out to other readers -- what the nominator may have over-looked -- is that this article was started in 2004 and PREDATES when Montenegro and Serbia split by two years. The earliest versions of this article describe the television station of "Serbia and Montenegro" in the years prior to the split.  Geo Swan (talk) 01:29, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Even if no articles link here NOW this article should be preserved both for historical reasons, and because it is necessary to preserve it in order to honour the GFDL rights of everyone who contributed to the original article, and then had their contributions ported to history of Television in Serbia and Television in Montenegro when the two countries split in 2006. Geo Swan (talk) 01:29, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - How the article came into existence is irrelevant. What matters is its current contribution to the project. This article contributes nothing as a disambiguation page but a reminder that Serbia and Montenegro were once one country, a reminder which is better suited to the Serbia and Montenegro article. I do, however, like the idea of using this space to list the television stations which existed between 2003 and 2006 in that former union. This article should not be kept in its current state; it should either be deleted or completely rewritten. Neelix (talk) 02:17, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.