Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Regulation of radio broadcast in the United States

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. Consensus is to not delete; whether or not it should be merged can be addressed in a merge discussion. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 08:29, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regulation of radio broadcast in the United States

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This six-year-old orphan article is a mess, and though I have spent extensive time upgrading some other related articles, I don't think this one is either needed or salvagable. It was recently renamed from "Radio regulation in the United States" to the (ungrammatical) "Regulation of radio broadcast in the United States", and much of the article is written in broken, sometime incomprehensible, English.

This article mostly consists of random, unfinished and unconnected thoughts, which duplicates subjects better covered in other articles including Radio in the United States, Radio Act of 1912, Communications Act of 1934, Federal Radio Commission and Federal Communications Commission. Despite the words "radio" and "broadcast" in the title, it actually also covers point-to-point transmissions ("broadcast" is one-to-many"), as well as telephone and television regulation. Thomas H. White (talk) 17:47, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete/Merge Radio in the United States already had dedicated sections to regulation. Reywas92^Talk 18:12, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The topic is notable as there are substantial sources such as this 358 page history. The rest is then a matter of ordinary editing, not deletion, per WP:ATD, WP:IMPERFECT, WP:NOTCLEANUP, &c. Andrew D. (talk) 13:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This article was not nominated for reasons of notability or lack thereof, it's pointless to address hypothetical reasons for deletion. And per Thomas H. White, who seems well antiquated with this article/related articles, its issues, and it's history, this article's issues which can be fixed as "a matter of ordinary editing" are not salvageable.Grapefruit17 (talk) 01:53, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Andrew D. - GretLomborg (talk) 18:27, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:12, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Salvageable content, maybe notable enough to warrant own article but I'd prefer a merge to delete. --qedk (t 桜 c) 08:20, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Radio in the United States – John M Wolfson (talk | contribs) 13:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Don't merge. I am in two minds whether or not we should keep this page, but those proposing merge have clearly not thought this through. It has been nominated because it is unsalvagably badly written. Any merge would require the material to be extensively cleaned up, so the same work is required as would be needed if the page were kept, only it suddenly becomes urgent to do if the decision is merge. Nobody seems to be volunteering to actually do this cleanup work, which is all the more difficult in a merge because the target article, Radio in the United States, does not cover regulation in a single section. So despite several people calling for merge, I think the closer should rule out that outcome unless a realistic plan of how that could be achieved is put forward. SpinningSpark 09:00, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I agree with Andrew Davidson and GretLomborg. However, I do also agree that this article is poorly written, so we might need to rewrite it. Foxnpichu (talk) 14:24, 11 May 2019 (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.