Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamil Ini FM

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The result was nomination withdrawn as a user has located a photo gallery which confirms that this is some form of content on CFMS-FM. A photo gallery doesn't confer notability in and of itself, obviously, but it's enough confirmation to tip this from "delete" to "redirect". Bearcat (talk) 22:40, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tamil Ini FM[edit]

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Delete. Completely unsourced article, with heavy advertorial undertones, about a claimed but not properly verifiable radio station. This definitely does not exist in the form claimed for it here, as its claimed frequency of 105.9 FM would conflict directly with CFMS-FM. I am finding some vague unreliable source hints that this might actually exist as an individual program or HD subchannel on CFMS, but I can't find any reliable source coverage to properly confirm which of those it might be (even CFMS's own website fails to actually list any of its ethnic programs at all, including schedule info only for its mainstream daytime programming), and it's definitely not CFMS's primary branding or format. And, of course, even if it is actually an individual program or an HD subchannel, WP:NMEDIA does not confer an automatic notability freebie on single-station local radio programs or HD subchannels just because they exist — they must be the subject of enough reliable source coverage to satisfy WP:GNG. Which this obviously isn't, if I can't even definitively verify that it is a radio program or an HD subchannel — but I can definitively verify that it's not a licensed standalone radio station, which is what this article as written claims that it is. (Redirect to CFMS-FM would also be acceptable, if somebody can confirm that status better than I've been able to, but the total lack of reliable sourcing about this means it can't have a standalone article regardless of what it is.) Bearcat (talk) 15:28, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:55, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:55, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —UY Scuti ^Talk 19:29, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The address given on CFMS' "contact us" page is virtually identical to the address on the Tamil Ini FM Facebook page. The only real difference is that CFMS' site lists it as a Scarborough address, and the Tamil Ini FM page lists it as a Markham address — for what it's worth, Markham is CFMS' city of license. I have also seen some other indications that this is a programming block on CFMS, and Tamil is one of the languages that are part of CFMS' ethnic programming. There's also this photo gallery of Tamil Ini FM's September 20, 2015 launch, which clearly shows that its programming uses the studios of "105.9 The Region", which is the overall branding of CFMS-FM (owing to the York Region focus of the station's non-ethnic programming). I'm leaning toward delete and redirect to CFMS-FM; the article is unsourced enough (and I'm not finding much in the way of reliable sources to rectify this issue) that there's really nothing of value to keep and/or merge, but "Tamil Ini FM" may be a plausible search term, and it is clearly not a standalone, separately-licensed station. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:28, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(For what it's worth, Tapscott Road actually is in Scarborough rather than Markham, though of course a radio station's studios and/or mailing address don't actually have to be in the official city of license — and the location is certainly near enough to the boundary of Scarborough and Markham that mail addressed to "Tapscott Road, Markham" would probably still get delivered properly. Not that that makes much of a difference to anything notability-wise, but just thought I'd clarify in case anybody's confused.) Bearcat (talk) 18:58, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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