Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WGPG-LP

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 no consensus. Joyous! | Talk 00:56, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WGPG-LP[edit]

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No evidence of satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:56, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki now appears to satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Site is a FCC Licensed broadcaster in historic city with 50,000 residents. Wiki has "Significant coverage"; "Reliable" and verifiable sources include the federal government and photos; "Secondary sources" used through the article and listed in sources; "Independent of the subject" content; therefore it is "Presumed" that the wiki should remain and not be deleted. "TelcoTodd" (talk) 16:03, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The references cited in the "Sources" section of the article are (1) an entry on a listing site, giving such information as the name of the radio station, its incorporation date, its address, and so on; (2) a page listing an application for a "Minor Modification to a Construction Permit", including details such as the station's call sign, its address, latitude and longitude, etc. In addition the "External links" section contains links to (1) a Federal Communications Commission listing for the station, which again gives information such as the call sign, the name of the station, its latitude and longitude, etc etc; (2) a listing on a site called radio-locator.com, with the same kind of information again; (3) a page which gives no information about the station except the single statement "No Fall 2016 data found for WGPG-FM." This is nowhere near to being the sort of significant coverage which is required by Wikipedia's notability guidelines. The kind of city the station is located in and its number of inhabitants has no bearing whatever on notability. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 18:01, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Meets NMEDIA guideline Actually James, the size of the audience CAN IN FACT be used to determine notability for a radio station, although 50,000 is small by full-power FM standards a LPFM station with 50,000 is unusually large by LPFM standards. Wikipedia:NMEDIA says: "Notability can be established by either a large audience, established broadcast history, or unique programming." This stations does appear to have "UNIQUE PROGRAMMING" specifically the Burmese Refugee population in the area, and perhaps a large audience by LPFM standards. TelcoTodd" (talk) 21:53, 23 November 2016

Weak keep See WP:BCASTOUTCOMES "Licensed radio and TV stations are generally kept as notable if they broadcast over the air and originate at least a portion of their programming schedule in their own studios." This is true at least of licensed low power FM stations in the US. This is not a claim of "inherent notability," but an observation that if an article's subject has certain characteristics, coverage can be found. If they broadcast to a city and originate programming locally, I have never found an instance where they did not get sufficient press coverage to satisfy general notability. I did not find online sources for this station other than listings in government files and directories, which are sufficient to verify its existence but not much more. However, many or most US newspapers are not covered in a Google search. It might require checking regional papers and magazines to find the required multiple reliable and independent sources with significant coverage. We editors do not have infinite time and money to drive to the station's area and check newspaper back issues for coverage everytime someone puts a radio station up for deletion.If this discussion eventually points to deletion, I suggest merging the station to the article about the school which operates it. See also Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations and companies)/Archive 12#Are radio stations inherently notable? for discussion of the notability of radio stations. Edison (talk) 01:26, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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