Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VF2321

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 redirect to CHOZ-FM. "Soft redirect" given the low input despite two relistings. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:47, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Single-sourced article which claims that its topic is a community radio station, but whose only sourced programming history is as a rebroadcaster of another station. But WP:NMEDIA does not grant rebroadcasters standalone notability as a separate topic from their programming source; while it's certainly possible that the station later switched to originating its own programming as claimed, it's unsourced and unsourceable as to whether that actually happened; and VF stations are now exempt from having to have a CRTC license at all, which means the lack of a license renewal "as of 2012" proves nothing either way about whether this is actually still operating or not. A station like this is not a suitable topic for a standalone article, if we can't properly source whether it ever met NMEDIA's condition about original programming or not. Bearcat (talk) 17:16, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:37, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak redirect to CHOZ-FM; the carriage of that station's programming, which may or may not have ended, is the only programming on the station that we have a source for. VF stations don't really have the presumption of notability for broadcast stations in general; rebroadcasters with no other known programming history definitely don't get that presumption. There doesn't seem to be sufficient coverage in reliable sources to satisfy the general notability guideline — and if those sources existed, there might actually be more to say as to what VF2321 is actually airing these days. This article actually was a redirect to CHOZ-FM when it was created in 2009, and only became a separate article in 2012; since rebroadcasting CHOZ is VF2321's only truly known programming, that is why I've been leaning to the restoration of the redirect, but I wouldn't object to deletion either. There is definitely no reason for this not-really-notable station to have a standalone article that will only ever be a permastub. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:02, 23 August 2016 (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.