Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CHNW-FM

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:35, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

CHNW-FM (British Columbia)

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Article about a low-power emergency alert radio station, with no reliably sourced indication that it would pass WP:NMEDIA -- there's no discernible evidence that this has ever been a CRTC-licensed service. Although the article was initially created with a CRTC decision in the external links, that actually seems to have been a sloppy copy-paste error from another radio station -- the decision didn't actually pertain to this at all, but to a different radio station on a different frequency, in Metro Vancouver but not in New Westminster, and that's long since been removed from the article since it had nothing to do with this topic.
In actual fact, this is a CRTC-exempt service operated by an amateur radio society on behalf of the city under the Canadian equivalent to USian Part 15 rules, which NMEDIA explicitly deprecates as not a notable class of radio station -- and even the sourcing here just consists of glancing namechecks of the service's existence in obituaries of a broadcaster who briefly worked for this station long after retiring from the other jobs that actually made him famous enough to get obituaried, which means neither of them are about this station strongly enough to get it over WP:GNG in lieu of having to have a broadcasting license.
And even more importantly, CHNW-FM definitely isn't its call sign anymore (if it ever really was in the first place, which I also can't verify): the CHNW call sign was adopted by an unrelated station in Winnipeg a few weeks ago, whose article was just moved to the non-standard naming format CHNW (FM) earlier today and has to be moved again to supersede the low-power New Westminster emergency station at this title regardless of what we decide to do about the emergency station.
So the existence of a low-power emergency information service (with the call sign VE7NWR rather than CHNW) could be briefly mentioned in New Westminster's article and Media in Vancouver, but the station doesn't have a CRTC license for the purposes of qualifying for its own separate article as a standalone topic. Bearcat (talk) 13:28, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 13:28, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 13:28, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Bearcat: I just moved this page to CHNW-FM (British Columbia) and then the Winnipeg station to the undisambiguated title. The BC station page should be deleted per nom. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:26, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A paragraph of appropriate detail has been added to New Westminster#Media. There's no need for a Media in Vancouver mention. Nate • (chatter) 10:15, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Unfortunately, that solution is being challenged by another editor as 'unsourced' and reverted once, cite-tagged twice (despite being based on this article), so the preservation in New Westminster may be a shaky option now, at best. Nate • (chatter) 08:55, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The sources cited pertain more to a public figure than the radio station. Not much indication of notability or that it meets criteria for its own entry in the articlespace. More sources need to be added. Multi7001 (talk) 03:56, 7 November 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.