Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/76.1 FM

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 keep. No consensus to delete. Noting no arguments against bold redirection of "sets of one". No prejudice against future unbundled, individual consideration at AfD. czar 04:45, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

76.1 FM

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Wikipedia is not a directory. The effort required to keep these articles outweighs the utility of them, and I believe they fall out of scope for the project as a whole. I am also nominating the following articles with less than 5 items (listed in this category), with larger articles being nominated later in a second AfD. Many of these articles have content issues raised by editors via tagging, and I'm doubtful they will ever be improved. (See also this current discussion.)

SWinxy (talk) 01:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 02:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 02:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The radio stations listed on these pages are notable, and creating list pages is a useful way to organize notable topics. Individual countries allocate radio frequencies differently, so some of these pages won't have any American or Canadian stations. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 02:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Not so much a response as a clarification for non-topic editors. With the exception of Colombia, even-decimal frequencies (like 98.2) between 88 and 108 are not used in the Americas but are in the rest of the world. Frequencies below 87.5, like 78.8 and 81.3, are only used in a handful of countries (notably Japan and only recently Brazil; Brazil uses the odd decimals only).

At 105.2 FM, I've done a cursory search and turned up a number of stations mentioned in their articles as being on that frequency in such places as Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, and Luxembourg. Part of our lack of entries issue is that this sort of cross-referencing has not been done, and we have fewer articles in general on European broadcasting. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:22, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the ones with at least two bluelinked stations (like 76.5 FM). Delete the ones with no bluelinked station (like 1710 AM). The question is what to do with the ones that have only one bluelinked station. My initial thought was that they should be redirected, but that would prove confusing for anyone looking for the various other stations which may use that frequency. I'm inclined to say Redirect when we can conclude (if we can conclude) that there is only one station in the world broadcasting at that frequency, and, well, I don't know yet what to do otherwise. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 03:03, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all with more than one entry as valid dab pages, redirect those with only one. GhostOfDanGurney (talk) 03:05, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. See the earlier discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/585 AM. In that case, the nominator withdrew the deletion proposal. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:08, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep These are 9 MHz and kHz spaced frequencies. Which is typical for basically everywhere outside of North America (US, Canada, Mexico). There is nothing unusual about these. You can actually find two of these like KGUM (AM) (AM 567) and KTWG (AM 801) located in Guam. These frequencies, though, are primarily used in the UK, Europe, and Japan. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:48, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all. All trivial cruft. Radio station frequencies vary per region. I don't see how it is notable to know exactly which stations share an exact frequency in different regions. Ajf773 (talk) 08:47, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Because people are likely to search for it that way? How is it notable to know exactly which John Smith someone is talking about? It's not about "notable" -- it's about disambiguating. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 12:04, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Radio stations are generally known by the name they broadcast in, not the frequency (which may exist over a number of different frequencies in different regions). Looking at a lot of these entries, most have just one or two entries. Not a lot seem to be notable enough based on the frequency they use. Ajf773 (talk) 08:11, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: They all seem to perform a function, i.e., disambiguating a term, and that's what disambiguation pages are for. I was puzzled as to why I've been alerted to this in regard to the page 76.1 FM when didn't create it or even contribute to it, but perhaps I've had some involvement with one of the others on the list. This is Paul (talk) 09:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Many of these don't disambiguate between anything per what I wrote above. They mention one bluelink or even none. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 12:04, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - The couple I looked at, including the one that directed me to this discussion, do disambiguate. What a complete mess. Perhaps redirect those that don't disambiguate (unless they are to redlinks then there's no point keeping them), then keep the disambiguation ones. To my mind there's a problem in creating such a bulk nomination, when many of these could have just been PRODded. This is Paul (talk) 12:31, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep a few of these might be successfully deleted individually (180 AM), but most are fine. These are set-index disambiguators for standard non-US frequencies; other countries (don't mention the Philippines) don't generally have radio broadcasters with quite as strong an individual identity as the US but it still is a valid set-index. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 02:18, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The entire purpose of these is precisely because it is entirely possible for people to know the frequency and location of a radio station they might be looking for, but not know what title our article about said radio station is located at. So such lists help people to find the article they're looking for, which is one of the core purposes of Wikipedia lists. If there are some lists that have only one or no entries at all, then they can certainly be reconsidered individually — but a bulk nomination of all of these at once, which completely ignores that there is a valid and user-facing reason why they exist, is pointless and unproductive. Bearcat (talk) 14:54, 19 October 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.