Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waffles radio

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 Delete - Yomangani^talk 12:29, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Waffles radio

I placed a PROD tag on this article, as it doesn't appear to be a particularly important radio show. The article's original creator disagrees with the PROD, so I'm bringing the issue here to generate some discussion one way or the other. Joyous! | Talk 19:50, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I don't even see why it is notable for that matter and I also agree with the nominator. Tarret 20:28, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. College radio show at some D-list university. "The goal of the show is to play music that the DJ (Chris Osborne) thinks listeners need to hear." Um OK. Herostratus 21:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete college radio station. ReverendG 04:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep There are plenty or articles about radio programs that have less information
  
  • 2000 Plus is just plain short.
    
  • 2000X is 3 lines long and has been a stub since July
    
  • A & J Show is about another college radio show that has been here since September 2005 and was only put up for deletion when I showed it to the person who first said to delete this article.
    
  • A.L. Alexander's Goodwill Court, A.L. Alexander's Mediation Board, Accordiana, The Adele Clark Show, Adventure Parade, Frontier Gentleman all don't appear to be notable to me at all because of their lack of content and any explination as to why the article should stay. Since they're all about old shows, I don't see how any new information could be added.
  • Action (radio) is about a show that never got past the pilot episode
  • Bay State Rock, Berkeley Groks, EcoTalk appear to be nothing more than short advertisments for a show
  • Colin and Nick is a very short article about a radio show that doesn't even exist anymore.
  • Crap From The Past Has the same type of information as this article, the only difference being that it isn't a college show
  • House of Hair tells nothing about the show more than the fact that it exists.

I could go on for a while, but I'll stop it there. Those are the kind of articles I saw that led me to beleive that mine would be appropriate. Maybe it should be placed in the Public Radio Sections since college radio is essentially public radio. Theichibun 15:11, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Perhaps you should read WP:INN. -- Kicking222 16:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep College radio shows should be allowed to have pages on here if other radio shows can have them. Winthrop University is not a big school, but it is certainly NOT a D-list university. Since WINR and several other college radio stations are streaming, people might want to find out about some of the shows they can hear online.

• Delete The entry has no academic merit and it was made solely for the purpose of marketing, to increase his web site's Google PR, and to drive traffic to his website. See the author's own admission of this at http://www.v7n.com/forums/forum-lobby/41885-utter-stupidity-wikipedia-people.html

• I'll give you that one, to an extent. I got the idea from people talking about spamming wikipedia. But I did notice all the show pages that I mentioned earlier before I made the page. There is a very inconsistant policy regarding which radio show pages get to stay and which are deleted. A very large chunk of the radio show pages hold no academic value, and many are simply advertising for a show. The only difference is that I admited to this fact somewhere. Without that post, there would be no evidence to show that was my intent, which it wasn't 100%. So if nothing else, please use this as an example of the inconsistant editing of Wikipedia. There are tons of pages that hold no academic value and are put up simply for advertising. Please take care of them as well. In addition, the same three people who are supporting the deletion of the A & J Show are the first three people who supported the deletion of this page. The AFD tag was not put on this page until I showed it to Joyous and asked why that page was appropriate and mine was not.

• Delete and Salt. Wikipedia is not for attracting notability; it's also not UScollegecruft.wikipedia.org. This fails the 20-year test and, again, brings up questions of systemic bias: why have enormous articles on every tiny little insignificant part of American life when we don't even have significant articles on major cities in Latin America and Africa? Colón, Panama, for instance, has an article half the length of this one, and it has a population of almost a quarter of a million people. --Charlene 16:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Then maybe someone should go make that article more informative. It's not my fault that I wrote more. I only looked at what was deemed appropriate based on the radio show pages. Theichibun 16:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Poorly-written article about a small-time college radio show which fails to assert even the slightest amount of notability. -- Kicking222 16:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Bay State Rock, Berkeley Groksand EcoTalk still exist with no talk of deletion. Are you saying that this article, which actually has information on it, is less notable than these? Theichibun 13:45, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

We usually try to judge an article on its own merits in these discussions. If you don't believe the articles you've mentioned are notable enough to be included in Wikipedia, you are free to nominate them for deletion, also. Joyous! | Talk 23:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of that policy. I thought only administrators and other select people could do that. And I still say that this articleis relevant and notable based on the fact that other radio shows are allowed to have a page. Theichibun 01:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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.