Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amherst Media

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The result was delete. Sandstein 20:53, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Amherst Media

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Fails WP:NCORP, WP:CORPDEPTH. Lists it's facebook page as a source. Reads like a corporate blurb. Kleuske (talk) 11:16, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. Kleuske (talk) 11:16, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Kleuske (talk) 11:16, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
• Delete: Eeep. As a resident of the area, I can attest that this is nothing more than the outfit that runs the community access channels for the town's cable TV. Since damn near every local cable system in America has a community access channel (and some bunch of local volunteers to run it), I wouldn't even consider this a candidate for merging into the Amherst, Massachusetts article: this is no more noteworthy than that Amherst has a senior center and a Department of Public Works, neither of which have standalone articles. Ravenswing 13:48, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
• Delete - At least online, Amherst Media has only two brief references in regional news outlets: [1] [2]. Also, of the three citations currently listed on the page, two of them are links to Amherst Media's own pages, and the third has been a dead link since at least February 2016. I don't see how this is notable at all. Shells-shells (talk) 19:26, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
• I think this meets GNG, with persistent extensive coverage from the Daily Hampshire Gazette e.g. and some coverage elsewhere e.g. . The local nature of the coverage is the only thing counting against WP:NCORP, but I'm inclined to lean on the side of inclusion for media outlets given the usefulness of being able to link them in sources. Has a history of the town of Amherst been written since 1995, and if so does it mention Amherst Media? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:09, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

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• Comment: I cut the advertorial bits out, which hopefully makes this a little easier to evaluate as a without being negatively prejudiced by puffy sentences about how "amazing" their programming is. I'm surprised by the argument that it's no more noteworthy than a senior centre (I guess that's "media bias" for you), but I don't have sources to add. -- asilvering (talk) 01:19, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Not to be glib, but the Amherst Senior Center (not to be confused with the Amherst Center for Extended Care) seems to have about as much documentation as Amherst Media, if not more: see [3][4][5], for example. :P Shells-shells (talk) 08:34, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 11:34, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

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