Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Infinity TV

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 23:07, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Infinity TV[edit]

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Article about a possibly defunct television channel not properly sourced as passing WP:BCAST. As always, television channels are not "inherently" notable just because they exist, and have to be the subject of third-party coverage in media besides themselves to establish their significance -- but the sole "source" here was content on its own self-published website about itself, and even that website is dead.
And for added bonus, this was half-hijacked in 2020, with the body text overwritten to describe the subject as a newly-launched thing in Canada, but without the referencing, the dead external link or the Emirati categories having been changed at all -- and the fact that this went 2.5 years without being detected implies low traffic and visibility.
I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with better access to Emirati media than I've got can find the sourcing needed to salvage it, but nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt it from having to pass WP:GNG on the sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 13:16, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and United Arab Emirates. Bearcat (talk) 13:16, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There's no sign this exists today, although it announced a 'reality TV show' back in 2004/6 there's no indication it got as far as the GFC let along survived it. No coverage since then, appears to have dropped off Nilesat, to all appearances it was barely on it to begin with. Right now, we've got a signal (ha) failure of WP:GNG. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 14:32, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I've managed to find ^[1]^[2] (2nd link gives the name of Station Manager, TV name and launch date) which are fantastic however that's all I did find, They've had various websites [1][2], More baffling they've amassed over 1k followers on LinkedIn[3] and in 2010 launched a Twitter account[4] and YouTube account[5] yet other than the 2 sources listed I cannot find any evidence of any notability or even anything that says they existed, Even searching in Dubai language brings up nothing[6],

I'm going to take a wild guess and say it had been running for 3 years and at some point got booted off and maybe the 2010-Youtube/Twitter creations were them trying to revive the name but weren't on anything ?, I've been convinced we were missing something because of the amount of LinkedIn followers they had but I don't think so..... Anyway no evidence of notaility, fails SIGCOV and GNG. –Davey2010^Talk 18:17, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Cherian, Vijaya (23 Aug 2007). "Infinity TV launches second channel". ArabianBusiness. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
^ Khalil, Joe F.; Kraidy, Marwan M. (14 October 2017). Arab Television Industries. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84457-576-3. Retrieved 10 June 2023.

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.

[1] Cherian, Vijaya (23 Aug 2007). "Infinity TV launches second channel". ArabianBusiness. Retrieved 10 June 2023.

[2] Khalil, Joe F.; Kraidy, Marwan M. (14 October 2017). Arab Television Industries. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84457-576-3. Retrieved 10 June 2023.

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