Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Sound Radio


 * 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 delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:34, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

New Sound Radio

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This article is about a future radio station — but that has been what has been claimed in the lead for about a decade. The article has also claimed for virtually all its 11-year existence that it intended to operate under a Restricted Service Licence "in the not too distant future" — but there doesn't seem to be anything to indicate that this has happened. (It's worth nothing, too, that until this AfD the most recent edit was in 2010 — and that was by a bot tagging links to GeoCities pages.) There doesn't appear to be any sources to verify anything about this station. Any presumed notability for broadcast stations depends on both whether a station is operational and there are sources to verify that operation — and the lack of sources means this station doesn't meet the general notability guideline either.  WC  Quidditch  &#9742;   &#9998;  18:12, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete Can't find any evidence that this station has ever been operational. Searches find a few directory listings but nothing more. The station isn't listed on the website of OFCOM (the UK broadcasting regulator) as currently holding a licence for any type of radio broadcasting. Neiltonks (talk) 11:38, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even if this did at some point actually operate under an RSL, that's no guarantee of inclusion in Wikipedia in and of itself. What WP:NMEDIA requires, for a radio station to actually get an article, is that its passage of the notability criteria for radio stations is verifiable in reliable source coverage. For one thing, it is entirely possible (and more common than one might think) for a radio station to get an FCC/CRTC/OFCOM license, but then fail for one reason or another to ever actually launch and have its license expire unbuilt. So it's not the license that gets it an article: it's the sourcing that can be shown to support the article. But there's no evidence of valid sourcing being shown here at all — and even if this did have an RSL at some point, it definitely isn't still operational today, as witness the fact that the URL in the infobox leads to a domain reseller rather than a radio station's web page. Bearcat (talk) 18:24, 21 May 2017 (UTC)


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