Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of three-letter broadcast call signs in Canada

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The result was merge to Call signs in Canada. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:46, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of three-letter broadcast call signs in Canada[edit]

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List of radio and television stations grouped on a criterion that represents trivia rather than a defining characteristic, and referenced entirely to directory lists rather than any substantive analysis of what might make this significant. This was clearly created to parallel List of three-letter broadcast call signs in the United States, which is also of questionable necessity but at least has a section (albeit unsourced) that provides some historical context for the grouping (as well as listing about four times as many stations) -- but the idea that any article that exists for the United States always has to be automatically paralleled by a matching article for Canada, regardless of any differences in cultural context or relevance or sourceability, has facilitated the creation of some awfully silly and pointless stuff in the past. The actual significance of this topic, in a Canadian context, could literally be dispatched with a couple of sentences in the existing Call signs in Canada, and there's no real reason why a standalone list of the three-letter outliers needs to exist as a separate page. Bearcat (talk) 20:22, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:22, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:22, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to the "Call signs in Canada" article Oaktree b (talk) 21:26, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 21:39, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete we do not group things based on a trait of their name, we groups things based on defining, unifying traits.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:01, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: It's sourced, we have a category for this on US stations (probably a page too, don't quote me on that part), so why not. I'd like to see better sources...and that's possible with REC and the Canadian Communications Foundation historical database. So, sources are out there. It is also a rarity in Canadian radio and television, just like with American radio and television, so it is notable. I think it meets NMEDIA, as well as GNG. Just needs better sources. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:49 on January 5, 2021 (UTC) • #WearAMask • #BlackLivesMatter
Merge: it should be kept by merging it into the list of Canadian call-signs, preferably as its own section. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 06:25, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per above. I would have voted delete as this is LISTCRUFTFORK, but the merge won't seriously hurt the target article even if its trivia. Support the same for the US List is mentinoed above if someone wants to be BOLD. // Timothy :: talk 15:20, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per NeutralHomer. Yoonadue (talk) 17:41, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Agree with above, merge into Call signs in Canada - if the section ever got too big, it would warrant it's own page. But right now it would comfortable into the article. CaffeinAddict (talk) 05:39, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think a merge with List of three-letter broadcast call signs in the United States might actually make more sense. power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:05, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Response: Bearcat and Mlaffs, I'm going to ask your opinions on this one. But I don't think this is a good idea. I think leaving the two articles seperate and linking the two together with a "See also" at the bottom would work just fine. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:58 on January 12, 2021 (UTC) • #WearAMask • #BlackLivesMatter

Well, that answers that. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 05:17 on January 13, 2021 (UTC)

Keep or Move the contents somewhere else per reasons listed by others (User:Neutralhomer, etc.) above. Paintspot Infez (talk) 04:29, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to the "Call signs in Canada" article. Two thoughts on this. First, my knee jerk response is that I've never seen Bearcat steer me wrong when it comes to anything related to Canadian radio stations. Second, not only could the subject be covered in "Call signs in Canada", it already has been. As is currently noted in the article, "Three-letter call signs are only permitted to CBC Radio stations or to commercial stations which received their three-letter call sign before the current rules were adopted." That pretty much says it all. Mlaffs (talk) 01:18, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to the main article on call signs in Canada. Presumably, it's possible to make a table that sorts the call signs by number of letters in them, yes? This doesn't seem like a particularly notable distinction, and if it is, it's one that can be easily achieved without splitting the content out into its own article. jp×g 14:30, 16 January 2021 (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.