Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WXYK

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. Proto::type 10:26, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WXYK

WXYK (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

NN WP:CORP radio station, no notations of notability, also possibly an advertisment due to the nature of the article SkierRMH 01:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This is just a local radio station. It has no claim to notability and it definitely fails WP:LOCAL. Diez2 01:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and clean up this article. There are lots of articles about local radio stations; this one is no different. NTXweather 01:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - As per nom. Spawn Man 02:34, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I cleaned it up a little bit so it didn't seem like an advertisement. It was probably copied and pasted off somewhere so I copy-edited it. Notibility shouldn't be an issue, many local stations have articles.--aviper2k7 02:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, and I didn't think WP:LOCAL was a criterion an article could "fail", I thought it was to indicate articles that may be notable but of local interest. --Canley 02:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Canley; thanks to aviper2k7 for cleaning up. Wavy G 07:51, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, consensus is that all licensed full-power radio stations are notable. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/KRES. Kirjtc2 12:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. There is no consensus, despite what some inclusionists like to claim, and WP:INN. There is nothing that distinguishes this station from umpteen other ultra-minor ultra-local stations in the USA, let alone worldwide: it does not require or deserve a place in an international encyclopedia. — Haeleth Talk 13:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep practice has been to keep A-Class FM stations (which this is, I checked the FCC website), and the inclusion of some station history helps it squeak by WP:LOCAL.-- danntm ^T _C 14:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as this is part of Template:Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula Radio. I’m sure the other US area market templates have local stations like this one. Do we need to delete all the others as well? JungleCat Shiny!/Oohhh! 18:49, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• KeepBalloonman 21:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as notability patterns have been set for radio and TV properties like this one. Maybe get the WikiProject to improve it? It has no infobox at all. TTV (MyTV|PolygonZ|Green Valley) 23:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:CORP, no third-party coverage. Sandstein 06:53, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Article modified, added Infobox and some info from Radio-Locator --RoninBK_ETC 09:48, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Oh, and for the record, Keep as per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents#Entertainment as a licensed Class A FM Station --RoninBK_ETC 09:56, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. First of all, the information in the article is not verified by sources independent of WXYK. Heck, it doesn't even seem to be verified by (the non-independent) WXYK website, which is the only non-trivial reference listed in the article. So I looked on Lexis-Nexis, and surprise surprise, there is no coverage of WXYK, like most radio stations. So we have a clear failure of WP:CORP like the nominator said. Now, in response to all the keep voters above who cite "precedent" or claim that "notability patterns have been set": please note that precedent is not an argument for automatically keeping or deleting anything. If there have been good arguments made in past AfD's that apply to this AfD, then make those arguments. Simply citing the results of past AfD's is not convincing. Next, in response to the keep argument "Do we need to delete all the other [local radio stations] as well?": Yes. Those that have no reliable independent sources that establish notability (i.e. most of them) should be deleted. Finally, in response to the claim that there is "consensus" that "all licensed full-power radio stations are notable": this is not true (witness the delete voters here). Consensus about this radio station will be established in this AfD. Consensus in past AfD's has nothing to do with consensus in this one. Pan Dan 17:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep licensed stations. --badlydrawnjeff talk 12:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

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