Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of former rebroadcasters of CBAFT-DT

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The result was Merge. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:10, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of former rebroadcasters of CBAFT-DT[edit]

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This AfD includes several lists of former relay transmitters of CBC Television and TVOntario stations. These networks decommissioned all analog transmitters on July 31, 2012. The remaining lists have little current value and may be at this point excessively detailed to be retained on the encyclopedia. In the case of TVOntario, the digital transmitters that remain are listed on the main article. Raymie (t • c) 23:12, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Raymie (t • c) 23:12, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Raymie (t • c) 23:12, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 23:45, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge all to the respective main articles. These lists are valuable and encyclopedic, particularly considering the transmitters were properly licensed, not unlicensed low-power operations like some other rebroadcasters, which is often considered to indicate notability in itself. However, they should not have been spun out from the network pages in the first place. If any of the tables are too long (IMO this really only applies to the TVO one), they can be collapsed by default.

N.B. "little current value" is not a valid argument for deletion, per WP:NOTTEMPORARY. Modernponderer (talk) 13:00, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per Modernponderer. There is some value in retaining historical information like this, but there's much less value in doing so as a separate list rather than a section within the station's main article. Obviously, if any of these prove completely unverifiable (the more pertinent problem in the case of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of transmitters of CHAN-DT, but not as broadly applicable in these cases), then that unverifiable information should just be scuppered rather than merged — it's correct that we can make tables collapsible now (this wasn't always true in the past), so the value in retaining historical information like this for reference's sake doesn't mean we need to spin them off to separate lists anymore. Bearcat (talk) 20:12, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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.