Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WESL

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The result was merge to WGOG. MBisanz ^talk 01:15, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WESL

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Delete. Article about a radio station, "proposed" since 2009 but still with no verifiable indication that it has ever actually launched. No confirmation is locatable on an FCC query; there's only one station licensed to either of the communities named in this article, and it's the already preexisting WTOB rather than this. I can't tell if this is a construction permit that expired, a license application that never even got approved in the first place, or just a total WP:HOAX from the get-go -- but what I can determine is that it's not radio station that ever actually existed. Bearcat (talk) 00:57, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 01:01, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I won't go so far as to it's a HOAX, but I will say the station does not exist so I'm guessing it only existed "on paper". Doesn't meet NMEDIA or GNG. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:02 on August 14, 2016 (UTC)

I looked at an archived version of the lone source, and have come to the conclusion that this appears to reflect unrealized plans. It appears that WESL in Powdersville, South Carolina was going to be a relocation of the license associated with WGOG in Walhalla. Those plans were abandoned in 2013; in addition, a 95.9 facility in Pendleton that was supposed to be relocated to serve as the new WGOG ultimately signed on from Pendleton as WLTE (a simulcast of WRTH, as reflected by its status as a redirect). WESL is clearly not a hoax, but it isn't going to launch either, so the presumption of notability for broadcast stations probably isn't going to apply. I suppose we could merge the minimal content here to WGOG (since its present license is what would have been used by the stillborn WESL), but would not object to deletion either. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:47, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar for figuring that out! I'd be perfectly okay with merging and redirecting this to WGOG as well, given what we now know. Bearcat (talk) 03:07, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Carolina-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:29, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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