Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greatest Hits Radio London
- 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 redirect to Greatest Hits Radio. ✗plicit 14:47, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
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I'm not sure this individual FM transmitter for Greatest Hits Radio is independently notable or needs its own article beyond the article for the network it transmits. It does not originate its own programming and just relays/translates the network, and most of its history is covered by the article for Absolute Radio, the network it previously transmitted. Suggest a redirect to Greatest Hits Radio. Flip Format (talk) 12:39, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Radio, United Kingdom, and England. Flip Format (talk) 12:39, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- Probably delete - there are lots of pages with information about local GHR stations in the British regions - hard to see that any of these really contain information that couldn't/shouldn't be merged into a single page without loss of content. It certainly seems to me that the local stations (which very largely broadcast the same programming) are not notable. JMWt (talk) 12:50, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: I think there's a lot of confusion generally around these articles. Some of the stations which are now GHR are notable in their own right, but mostly under previous brands. For instance, Greatest Hits Radio South Wales is not a notable station, but in its incarnation as Swansea Sound it was notable as the first commercial radio station in Wales. It's a poor article, but could easily be well improved and stand as a historical article about Swansea Sound. My personal preference would be for articles like this London one (where it's simply a relay of the network) to redirect to GHR's main article, and for articles about stations subsumed into GHR to remain at their old names and be published in the past tense. Flip Format (talk) 13:13, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: The frequency in question has never been used to carry a London station as when it was Virgin Radio back in the day, it was a relay of the national Virgin Radio with a short weekday local programme. I agree that when these 'stations' are merely a full relay of a national network the articles about said 'stations' do not pass the notability threshold and should be redirected to GHR's main article so that if any local programming was ever to be introduced, the text of these articles can be resurrected. Rillington (talk) 03:58, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: I think there's a lot of confusion generally around these articles. Some of the stations which are now GHR are notable in their own right, but mostly under previous brands. For instance, Greatest Hits Radio South Wales is not a notable station, but in its incarnation as Swansea Sound it was notable as the first commercial radio station in Wales. It's a poor article, but could easily be well improved and stand as a historical article about Swansea Sound. My personal preference would be for articles like this London one (where it's simply a relay of the network) to redirect to GHR's main article, and for articles about stations subsumed into GHR to remain at their old names and be published in the past tense. Flip Format (talk) 13:13, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: The original and primary editor of this article nominated it for deletion under CSD G7. [1] ZsinjTalk 18:33, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- Delete or redirect An RfC specifically on this topic (which I ran in 2020) suggested exactly what Flip Format wants: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio Stations/Archive 2021#Greatest Hits Radio RfC. A redirect to Greatest Hits Radio and probably a link in the network list like "GHR London (More information: Absolute Radio)" will suffice. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:56, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
- Redirect: It is difficult to justify this being a stand-alone article when this 'station' seems to be nothing other than a relay of a national station. If this was to change, the article should be reinstated. Rillington (talk) 03:53, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- Redirect to Greatest Hits Radio per nom. SBKSPP (talk) 03:46, 22 April 2023 (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.